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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
Any increase to first class international is another nail in the coffin for international sales…
I quit doing international sales a long time ago when the chinese who purchased my items started to knock them off on ebay at some ridiculously penny price. Did they get around that? sure – they started using freight forwarders. how’d I get around that? went into paypal and refused to accept international credit cards. If I don’t ship internationally why would I accept an international credit card that paypal charges me extra for all the while helping to unemploy myself? Here’s the deal – I need to hang onto my job. I can’t live on anther bowl of rice – I need to make the mortgage payment on the house. Wish you’d address this issue of the chinese killing our jobs on the open format for discussion. Am I losing sales? Yup – lost 6 this month already. I simply request that the buyer pay using the USD thru paypal. They have all declined so far. Not one paid. I don’t care. It means my item doesn’t show up on ebay and undercut me. Let them start from scratch from my picture and hire a carver to create the mold. That’ll take them awhile and their too lazy to do it.