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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgard" data-source="post: 4669237" data-attributes="member: 4157">Yes, I had the same problem.  I mailed to an Ebay buyer in Australia.  It was won and shipped 3 days before Christmas 2005.  The buyer filed a non-receipt claim during the first week of the new year.  All I could show on the tracking was that the item had left the US.  Ebay refunded his money as I couldn't prove it was delivered in Australia.  I was out:1.  The item (Grenadier's Orcs of the Severed Hand, IIRC)2.  The payment he made.3.  The shipping I paid to mail it.I found the buyer's email address last year when I was cleaning out an old PC.  I emailed him and asked if I could buy the item back from him as I wanted to give it to my brother who was looking for it.  He replied that he still had it and the minis were not yet painted and that he would gladly sell it back to me.I guess he forgot that he did receive the minis...or more likely he forgot he ripped me off.That was my last shipment to a non-US buyer on Ebay.The problem with Ebay and shipping to other countries is that there is no way to prove the item actually arrived to the buyer.  Stuff gets lost in the post, lost or stolen in foreign customs and there are some buyers who are just out to steal.  Additionally, Ebay has the DSRs with which the buyers rate the sellers by item description accuracy, communication, shipping time and shipping cost.  If the item is genuinely delayed in customs the overseas buyers will sometimes ding the seller on shipping time.  Get enough dings and your items' placement during searches ends up buried.  Get more dings and you lose your privilege of selling on Ebay.You can get delivery confirmation with Fedex and UPS, but whenever I get an overseas query from a prospective buyer, I quote them the UPS and Fedex rates.  I never hear back from them after that.I suppose that you can manage the risk and sell to folks in other countries with the increase in sales (volume and higher bids) offsetting the thieves.  I chose not to deal with the hassles of selling to non-US buyers.Thanks,Rich</blockquote>

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