US Sellers On Ebay.... Not Shipping To Canada

Sorry..i keep scratching my head on this one. You can send a guy to the moon but somehow you find it difficult to mail an envelope of stamps to your neighbors to the North. It's very frustrating to find stamps etc..you'd like to get only to find out United States only or "May not ship to Canada"...can someone enlighten me on why Canadians are excluded. Can't be the war of 1812..that was 100 years ago...and a Canadian hockey team hasn't won the Stanley Cup since 1993.

Could be the math, the war of 1812 was 200 years ago.

Alright 200 years ago. I stand mathematically challenged.

I don't care where my stamps are shipped too, of course I'm 150 miles from Canada.

I've often wondered that myself, graphis. Can't figure what the reason could be, and think they are only limiting their market by doing so.

I have no problem with Canada although I do take some abuse about the "war of 1812" !

I saw a nice Nova Scotia #1 sell for about $50 on ebay by a U.S. seller who did not ship to Canada. I had emailed him to ask if I could bid, he said no. I would have paid over $100 for the stamp. Since then I saw three stamps worse than his go for $100 to $175. He is the loser.

I ship to Canada, but no books, and you are always looking over your shoulder to see if there's a "Customs" problem, or a big duty for the buyer. Plus, it's like any other foreign country, there's no way to protect valuable shipments without spending an inordinate amount of money.

And then there used to be stringent regulations on the shipping of coins and banknotes, for absolutely no good reason at all, just bureaucratic #$*@. I don't know if those rules are still in effect or not, it's too much trouble to research.

Any more its getting harder to ship either way. Some small packages I send take 2 weeks (from CAN)plus to make it to US points which makes buyers angry. They always ask for tracking after 1 week and for $15-25 lots (stamps or lures) adding tracking is pretty well out of the question. Even with discount postage tracking and a signature is costly. Most ebay sellers I emsil have no problem but I have ran into the same as BeeSee where something I would have happily paid more for goes dirt cheap . Occasionaly I'll bid (if its not blocked) and most sellers will figure it out if you win. Funny I deal with more european sellers on ebay anymore.

I can support Nitrolures comments,
regularly mail from Canada to Australia is 4 weeks to 3 months.
My last shipment, I employed UPS, trackable, and my shipping bill was $100
That was 10 days.

philib..i apologize for the comment about the war of 1812..after all it was the canucks, the brits and the yanks that liberated France and brought an end to WWII.

I don't have problems shipping up north, or south either. I used to sticker up letters with old stamps. I receive reports of stamps being pulled from the envelopes. Now every international letter is plain business white with current stamps. No problems. I buy some from Canada and have found the shipping is very slow. I don't bother sending emails until 2-3 weeks. I sent a letter to the UK last week. It made it there in 2 days. I guess it was the luck of the draw!

Just curious what does that have to do with this thread?

I ship to Canada (as well as most other countries), but I can understand why sellers would not want to do so. There is no cost-effective way to ship outside the U.S. and still protect onesself from fraudulent chargebacks for bogus not-received claims.

Shipping domestically, this is MUCH less of an issue.

That's exactly why people don't ship to Canada(or other countries). Any item without tracking (and tracking is expensive out of the country), Paypal will side with buyer immediately so the seller loses the product and the money. Happens all the time in the sportscard/memorabilia market.

It cost me $38 to send a baseball card to Japan last week to cover myself. It was a $200+ card and without tracking, all the buyer would have to do is say he didn't get it and I lose the case with no chance at all to win.

Nothing if you take it out of context the way you did. It was a play on graphis' reference to the War of 1812, made when he began this topic.

Keep scratching!