Does anyone else HATE this stupid Global shipping program?

I've found Global to be inflexible, expensive and frustrating. I've just had an item sent through it and of course it's under multiple carriers and the number I was given by WNDirect cannot be tracked. I've therefore paid for a Priority Mail service and received what was First Class without the tracking. I live in Australia and First Class International through the good old U.S. Post can now be tracked here. It is SO much better than what I just experienced and costs me so much less, but when a seller locks themselves into a Global listing, it appears that they can no longer override the invoice so I've just paid double for this rubbish! So not happy!!

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@4channel

 

my original question focussed on more items being available for purchase and not there being more sales.

 

There is a difference, in that buyers can decide whether to buy or not . . . . . and if there are more items available to them they might well find that special something they wouldn’t normally have had access to.

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

@4channel

 

my original question focussed on more items being available for purchase and not there being more sales.

 

There is a difference, in that buyers can decide whether to buy or not . . . . . and if there are more items available to them they might well find that special something they wouldn’t normally have had access to.


Sure, anything's possible. While there may be some artices that may make it across the seas because of a seller using GSP. However, this would be in the minority. The potential buyer would be faced with the dlilemma of having to pay through the nose and also being unable to combine articles. That would divide the number even further. As I mentioned previously more and more sellers arer ditching GSP in favour of getting more sales and some actually care about their potential customers.

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@4channel wrote:

@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

@4channel

 

my original question focussed on more items being available for purchase and not there being more sales.

 

There is a difference, in that buyers can decide whether to buy or not . . . . . and if there are more items available to them they might well find that special something they wouldn’t normally have had access to.


Sure, anything's possible. While there may be some artices that may make it across the seas because of a seller using GSP. However, this would be in the minority. The potential buyer would be faced with the dlilemma of having to pay through the nose and also being unable to combine articles. That would divide the number even further. As I mentioned previously more and more sellers arer ditching GSP in favour of getting more sales and some actually care about their potential customers.


 

 

again, my original question focussed simply on there being more items available for purchase because some (maybe many) sellers who did not want to sell overseas were now selling overseas because they had been opted in to the GSP, but as usual you can’t give a simple answer that doesn’t include a rant about the GSP.

 

 

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Slr, please leave him alone....

 

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Where's the proof that more and more sellers are deciding to send overseas without using the GSP? If this is the case, you should be able to buy what you want easily, which means there's no need for your constant whinging about it.

Of the stuff I've always bought from overseas, there's a lot less sellers posting overseas now. They don't even post using the GSP so a LOT of sellers don't want to post overseas any more AT ALL. I know I won't and I see a lot of other sellers say the same thing in the forums. If I had protection from the GSP system I'd probably sell overseas. When I sold on etsy for a while I used to have a lot of Americans wanting to buy what I had (demanding I sell to them, in fact).
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@brerrabbit585 wrote:
Where's the proof that more and more sellers are deciding to send overseas without using the GSP? If this is the case, you should be able to buy what you want easily, which means there's no need for your constant whinging about it.

Of the stuff I've always bought from overseas, there's a lot less sellers posting overseas now. They don't even post using the GSP so a LOT of sellers don't want to post overseas any more AT ALL. I know I won't and I see a lot of other sellers say the same thing in the forums. If I had protection from the GSP system I'd probably sell overseas. When I sold on etsy for a while I used to have a lot of Americans wanting to buy what I had (demanding I sell to them, in fact).

Proof? Well, going on what sellers have told me leads me to believe that more sellers are dropping the Pitney Bowes so-called service as customers like to have the freedom to have items combined and also USPS is cheaper. Makes logistcal sense.

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Well then, buy from them. No GSP and problem solved.

 

I thought you didn't talk to sellers because they would jack the prices up if they knew there was interest.

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@4channel wrote:

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
Where's the proof that more and more sellers are deciding to send overseas without using the GSP? If this is the case, you should be able to buy what you want easily, which means there's no need for your constant whinging about it.

Of the stuff I've always bought from overseas, there's a lot less sellers posting overseas now. They don't even post using the GSP so a LOT of sellers don't want to post overseas any more AT ALL. I know I won't and I see a lot of other sellers say the same thing in the forums. If I had protection from the GSP system I'd probably sell overseas. When I sold on etsy for a while I used to have a lot of Americans wanting to buy what I had (demanding I sell to them, in fact).

Proof? Well, going on what sellers have told me leads me to believe that more sellers are dropping the Pitney Bowes so-called service as customers like to have the freedom to have items combined and also USPS is cheaper. Makes logistcal sense.



Hearsay, hearsay, and more hearsay.  Hearsay means absolutely nothing.  If more and more sellers are dropping using the GSP you've got nothing to complain about, but you want to have it both ways.  One minute you're saying less sellers are using it, next minute you're saying sellers refuse to send any other way.  One minute you say we'll never know unless a survey is done, next minute you claim to know just because of what someone told you that they were told by someone else.

 

Some things about not using the GSP make logistical sense but chargebacks, losing the item and the money because of MBG claims due to slow delivery don't make sense at all, which is why so many sellers refuse to post overseas unless it's through the GSP.

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@davewil1964 wrote:

Well then, buy from them. No GSP and problem solved.

 

I thought you didn't talk to sellers because they would jack the prices up if they knew there was interest.


You thought wrong davewil1964. I only was talking about when sellers have the "Best Offer" feature but have the shipping as Pitney Bowes' GSP and when someone asks the seller to please change the shipping to the much more cheaper USPS, the bargaining power of the person enquiring is lessened. Sellers knowing that someone is interested enough to contact them to change the shipping will know they can hold out for a higher offer. Simple logic! If I was a seller who had something on "Best Offer" and was contacted by someone who wanted to change, adjust, combine or W.H.Y., I'd hold out for a higher offer.

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@4channel wrote:

If I was a seller who had something on "Best Offer" and was contacted by someone who wanted to change, adjust, combine or W.H.Y., I'd hold out for a higher offer.

If that's the case then how can you possibly complain if/when others do the same thing ??????

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