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10/09/2020 at 3:41 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82280
It worked for UK sellers (I think it did) as the UK and NI were in a customs union with the EU and Turkey, so no customs fees were added onto any GSP packages. That’s going to end on 1st January 2021. I had an Australian buyer interested in an old kitchen mincer- they found they were going to be charged 6 GBP fees on a 9 GBP purchase by GSP. I suspect had I posted it outside of the GSP they wouldn’t have been charged.
10/08/2020 at 4:24 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82261(Following is apparently the sort of thing categorised by business schools as ‘SWAG’, but this has maybe less of the ‘S’)
My impression is that this is happening because Pitney Bowes’ database isn’t integrated with eBay’s point of sale. PB claim that their database is used by clients to automatically prevent purchases where the item can’t be imported into the prospective buyer’s country.
Because eBay have no access to PB’s database, eBay items get purchased, get posted, end up at PB’s warehouse, are flagged, are diverted and sold off to whoever is contracting with PB to buy up this “contraband”.
For any eBay listing the number of browsers and watchers exceeds the number of purchasers (to quote Sybil Fawlty “stating the bleedin’ obvious”). Using PB’s database to block prospective buyers on eBay will have a negative impact on sales, especially as the database is being continually updated, so what is permissible to purchase one day may become forbidden the next.
I’m kind of thinking, at some point eBay are going to be sued over this.
10/07/2020 at 2:50 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #822508Ten’s parent company’s called Engineered Insanity Inc. Christopher Ball is President, Secretary, Treasurer, Director and Agent. He’s got some damn good get-up-and-go for a 76-year-old! Maybe he’s a teenager, and 8ten1944 is run by his grandmother.
10/07/2020 at 6:41 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82242Thanks! I take it you watch not only Gun Jesus, but also Gun Buddha? The wisdom that Gun Buddha imparts can be applied to many things. 🙂
10/07/2020 at 5:18 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #8224010/07/2020 at 3:57 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82239It’s a shame, but if 8ten Industries is the owner of 8ten1944 they named themselves after the 810 area code for Michigan and not a marvel of British engineering.
Here’s 8ten Industries’ offering of collectibles link.
I guess the coins have their listing details lifted from the coin grader’s text; the other listings have words like “You will receive exactly what is pictured. Thank you for looking”. Shipping is to the US only, but extra-mural shipping can be arranged. They have an address for returns in Cass City, MI 48726.
10/06/2020 at 2:55 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82215I forgot to elucidate- “the buyer… might sometimes learn that this product can’t in fact be shipped”. So presumably, with some clients, Pitney Bowes operate a point-of-sale policing, but maybe not with eBay. ‘Cos eBay sellers sell an encyclopaedic range of weird and wonderful scavenged items.
10/06/2020 at 2:51 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82214I think the explanation is that Pitney Bowes have a continuously-updated database of shipping fees and customs regulations etc.
Quote from Technomy website
“Pitney Bowes combines a sophisticated, constantly-evolving database of information about shipping prices, addresses, taxes, tariffs, and local law with operation of big physical mail and reshipment facilities. All the seller does is ship to one of those hubs, and Pitney Bowes seamlessly re-routes and stamps the package for its trip to the eventual foreign destination. Says Ventana’s Smith: “The buyer understands when to expect delivery, but also might sometimes learn that this product can’t in fact be shipped to Saudi Arabia or wherever, or that the tariffs add so much to the cost that you don’t want to buy it. These are the kinds of digital signals that are critical for consumers to have a good experience.”
So (presumably) the id of the GSP package is linked by PB to the eBay listing, and then the listing’s text is checked against their database to see whether the item can be shipped to destination. For the military manual, the “contravention” was picked up by eBay, and the customer barred from buying; otherwise Pitney-Bowes police the GSP packages when they arrive at their warehouse.
That’s my guess 🙂
10/06/2020 at 2:03 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82212Sorry- I was just about to edit my post to say that situation is hypothetical- wasn’t meaning to suggest that you were doing that!
I checked the 8ten1944 shop and it appears only to be selling golf items (there’s an 8ten account which sells lawn mowers) Curiously there’s no business details (at least none I could find) for either.
10/06/2020 at 1:36 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82210So…Joe Bloggs sells a jerry can to a fellow fraudster in Canada for $1,200 (because he sprayed “Property of General Patton” on it to make it plausible). Said piece of junk gets confiscated, and  Bloggs and Bloggs’ “customer” both get $1,200, and Pitney Bowes sells the jerry can to 8ten1944. Bloggs and Bloggs’ pal are now up $1,200 (minus of course the cost of the jerry can, which is about 10 dollars this side of the pond, and a can of spray paint)
This has happened, hasn’t it? I mean, someone’s done this already with some kind of faked-up item.
A friend recently had a listing removed- it was for a copy of “My Struggle” by The Leader, just when the auction had reached 70 quid. The explanation was that it was an edition without a critical commentary, unlike all the rest of the listings for the same book (including a modern translation in Punjabi- I bet eBay checked that for a critical commentary /sarcasm). Three-day suspension (but they had been warned previously for selling a replica wound badge without blurring out the hakenkreuz- they found the badge in a car park).
Two takeaways- 1: a seven-day auction for the book got 300 views and 70 watchers (sad) – 2: if you’re selling certain things you gotta tweak the listing  and photos carefully and make sure you don’t have Germany as one of the places you post to. They don’t want it back, thanks.
“Land/houses is so much cheaper once you hit 100 miles from an urban area because you get outside the “commute zone”.” (Jay)
House prices in Norfolk going up because of people fleeing London. I heard from a friend who was on holiday there, and who did a bit of desultory house-hunting, that the estate agents (realtors) are getting interest from people buying houses to let to people fleeing London…
I suspect that all the interest is in properties situated near the coast (not on the coast as the coast in certain areas is moving inland! e.g. the lost city of Dunwich) Inland it’s all turkey farms, disused WW2 airfields and damp patches. To the north, herds of pigs and sullen heaps of sugar beet.
Well done! Wonder if they are titanium?
Like Mike suggested, if they are tapered inside (and it looks like they are) then they could fit over two halves of a plastic cone, which then clips onto the vertical supports via a rim into a groove. That’s the kind of fitting used on those metal wire shelf units sold for use in kitchens (the ones with the wine racks).
Tree of Life in the middle. That tree plus two symmetrical elements (like birds) is very common in traditional designs.
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