US only sales WHY???

Because international law is a bitch!

I sent an item to Spain, within 24 hours of the sale.
It got hung up in Spain Customs for some time and the customer gave me some grief!

I've been liquidating a lot of gear here on Audiogon over the past several months. And, based on my previous experience with sending gear back and forth from Canada, I explicitly say, "USA Sales Only!" It was simply too much of a headache on many levels. For whatever reason, whether I was shipper or receiver, both UPS and FedEX were constantly slamming me with outrageous fees that I could never shake.

Nevertheless, I still get a lot of inquiries from Canada, and an appreciable amount from Europe and Asia. Call me foolish, but I'll settle for a far lower sale price before I send anything out of this country. As they say, been there, done that, don't want to do it again, forget it.

All that being said, I'm going to have to figure out some strategy in the not too distant furture, as I'm about to begin selling some new gear, and I'll be looking to sell internationally.

When I've dealt with Canada sales transactions which I have several times I always end up receiving a bill for additional fees from the carrier. I hate that.

Largeyo, from the majority of posts in this thread I think you get the point now.

Personally, I have absolutely no problem dealing with any such transaction - as long as you pay US$ cash and pick it up in person (or similarly accept cash and I can drive there to pick up in person). International or U.S.domestic, it's the same. Yup, that really limits things but it suits me just fine - I'm not in the business, I'm (obviously) not buying nor selling lots of stuff. I used to deal with shipping and was mostly lucky with that. Then I did a couple of transactions where I drove (to other states, no less), met a couple of really exceptional folks in the course of completing the deal, and decided that works best for most of what I'm interested in. I still might do other stuff online (retail, etc.) but the advantages to not dealing with shipping (much less customs, tax guys, etc.) makes non-domestic deals a no-brainer no-go for me.