Thanks for everyone's input. 🙂 I'm not sure how much of a difference the items I'm selling makes to anything, but they're not any kind of rare or collectible items in the traditional sense - handmade fashion jewellery, albeit often unique and not in an overly common style. I doubt they'd ever be the subject of a bidding war, and sure there might be one person every now and then that would like a $20 item enough to pay $25 for the kind of P&H that qualifies it for SP, but it seems a bit pointless to me in the long run to do it that way -  I just know that more people look for this style of jewellery OS than they do here (rough estimate would be about 15-20 international hits on other sites to 1 from Oz).

That probably makes it look like a no-brainer - the US is where I get the most inquiries from on other sites, but they've only converted to a sale once. The thing is, it's not exactly selling overseas that bothers me, to be frank, my items are (or were) available worldwide on other sites and it's impossible to qualify for Seller Protection with those transactions, it's selling overseas on eBay. ;\

The trepidation is kind of ingrained and automatic after all I've read, but I probably should probably just get over it and see what happens. :8}