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@masterstroke.eng wrote:

Bring it on here !  I'm fed up paying high international air  postage prices that rise twice a year, then get slugged fees on the postage costs. Much rather send the items to a local shipper and let them worry about it recon it would cost the seller far less

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I would have thought that most sellers would have the postage paid for by the buyer, even for international sales.  As a seller, you can include a handling charge, and this is where you could help to recover the fees on postage.

Simple thing to do would be to work out which countries you are prepared to send to, find out the appropriate costs involved for AP or courier and include that in your listing as well as incorporating a buffer by having a nominal handling charge built into those amounts.

I recently bought an item from the UK and asked the seller for a postage estimate before bidding.  He gave an estimate that I was happy with and I did bid and win.  He sent via courier, and when I input the item size/weight into the courier calculator I saw that he charged me more than what the courier site said the postage would be.  However, I only did that out of curiosity, and am not one bit concerned that I paid more for the postage service used as I respect the seller's right to not lose on postage and for me to pay that little bit extra as I really wanted this item.  It also makes me feel like this seller takes his selling seriously, and that if there were any problems he would do everything a seller should do to help sort them out.