[Delia Snyder]

Hi all,

I'm selling a sword on Ebay, and I stated that I would only ship it in the United States; however someone contacted me and wanted to know if I would be willing to send it to England. Does anyone know if this will be a big problem? I did recently send one to Australia and it went fine, but I stressed about it for 2 weeks until it got there.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Delia

[Michael Sigman]

[Delia Snyder]

[Timothy Gulics]

Decorative Ironwork!

That's code for POINTY SWORDY!

[Roger Hooper]

How about Iron Stage Prop?

[Nathan Robinson]

Personally, I would label it a "monkey training device" just to see what happens.

[Jean Thibodeau]

How about: "Ice scraper LARGE" for Canada?

[Lee O'Hagan]

Decorative ironwork seems to work the best,
Someone mentioned on another board that stage prop is a different tax code,?
personally cant say for sure though,
I've had four or five posted over from the US,
Only had a problem with one and that was the fault of pooforce,read as parcelforce,
If it is an expensive item,if viable go for the two or three day service,
If standard,insure to the hilt as the postal service over here is the same as a few public services,archaic,
two weeks is about the norm so far too,

If marked monkey training device,LOL
The buyer wont receive it as the item will become a permanent fixture in the pooforce canteen,

[Lee Watts]

I have had a couple of swords from albion and some other manufacturers apart from takeing up to 2 weeks i haven't really ever had any problems.

[Josh Aldous]

I sent one and it got there fine, and I DID indeed use "decorative ironwork"
Another thing to keep in mind when shipping internationally is that you may want to keep the declared value low, since the customs charges that the recipient has to pay are calculated as a percentage of that value.

[Geoff Wood]

[Lee O'Hagan]

It certainly does Geoff,
The courier/postal will only pay the insured value,
anything to the contrary you run the risk of accusation of tax fraud,
That line coming from the secretary of the managing director of parcelforce,

Parcelforce lost a sword i had sent mid year,
Seller put the price i actually paid for the item as the insured value,
Replacement quotes for the sword were alot higher than the purchase price,
no dice,
you get what it is insured for + postal cost's only,

Also the sender makes the claim and the buyer is normally left to wait for the claim to go through,
seller dependant on that though,

So after that episode i've found that a two or three day service though more expensive is the way to go,
insured amounts may vary to recoup the extra transit charge,
not endorsing anyone else to do this via a public forum though of course.

[Delia Snyder]