Regarding people selling equipment to U.S.A. only

I shipped some floorstanders from Dallas for a nice guy in Trinidad. He had a pal in the shipping business in Florida who handled the rest from there. Maybe that was so easy it doesn't count. When I sold a Japanese CD player to a dude in Canada he lost his cool with me when he had to pay all kinds of Canadian taxes.

On business to business deals, overseas trade is no real sweat. Savvy overseas buyers know that if they arrange the shipping themselves a USA seller will be hard pressed to deny them the goods.

What spoils it with these one shot amateur deals are the getover specialists out there. You know who I mean. The cats who burn you on shipping or take it upon themselves to alter the terms of the sale once they've cleared the field of other ready buyers. One seller recently had the cajones to offer email notification of actual shipment for $1 extra!

Inside the USA tracking numbers or delivery confirmation is cheap insurance for peace of mind. One buyer claimed he never received his $350 priority mail item. Lucky for me I'd sprung the $0.45 for the confirmation. Once I laid it on him he suddenly remembered he'd forgotten to check his P.O. box for two weeks, the address he gave me!

Alas, there are no confirmations for overseas buyers. And sure there's tracking numbers, but how long's it going to take for the UPS guy in Ohio to pay a visit on the scam artist with the limited damage in gay Parie? Color me low anxiety -- USA only please!

I live in Italy and I purchased the flaghship model of Thiels speakers(7.2)from Jboeyjus. Great price, service,packaging, communication and... good invoice ;-) Do the same, you will not regret !

I sold a center channel speaker from Pennsylvania to Korea. Bought tubes from Hong Kong & Italy. No problems on any deals. It's a small world for audiophiles.
Cheers, Spencer

Thanks for your responce fellow audiogoners, I now understand the process from a sellers perspective,

Hey Joe,I live in Australia too, I bought a MCintosh power amp from Clinton and the transaction was perfect. All you have to do is pay for the shipping, import duty and GST. But the thing is the cost in total's still much cheaper than buying new here in Aus. I don't know what the hell is going on over here... but evrything here's so expensive, enven second hand gear...and so cheap in US... you may have the same opinion with me 'bout that...if you need my help in import gears just e-mail me...Vincent