****, only ships to US D: . Why do people keep doing this?!
Usually just from inexperience. They don't realize the only difference is adding a little slip of paper stating the package's contents and value. (The buyer pays the extra shipping, of course.)
Not quite as bad—but deceptive and exploitative, IMHO—is when sellers opt for eBay's so-called Global Shipping Program. How nice of eBay, they think: I just send my item to a place in the eastern US, and eBay forwards it to my overseas buyer.
What they may or may not realize, though, is that the buyer is then charged to ship the package to the forwarding center; then charged
again to ship it from the US, plus a "service fee" for the great effort of putting a new label on it and dropping it back in the mail. This can increase by 30–40% what's probably already a painful shipping charge.
What's more, eBay doesn't go out of their way to explain this to anyone before the sale (and they certainly don't explain how easy it is
not to use it). I once made the mistake of having something subject to the GSP sent to me here in Canada, and couldn't understand why I was suddenly paying over $20
more to receive a $50 item. And eBay finds yet another way to squeeze money out of their users.
