Risks of Selling Expensive or Designer Items to Overseas Buyers

[BarStools]

Would you recommend it?

I get inquiries from overseas buyers but I am wary of sending overseas. Is my fear warranted? Or am I just being paranoid?

I always stipulate no overseas because the complications of postage etc are too great. You have plenty buyers in the UK so why create an extra level of risk. If there are post problems it is really difficult to sort things out overseas and you might end up out of pocket.

Yeah I set my listings to no overseas too. Just curious about selling overseas because of the inquiries I get but it doesn't seem worth it.

Send ONLY via the global shipping programme because if it goes missing they refund and not you. We have been OK so far with oversea buyers (sell some items over £100 but no experience of designer items. Overseas buyers make up a reasonable amount of our trade so we would be silly to exclude them.

I stopped sending overseas some years ago, especially to the US as the postage was too high and if they chose a low option it took too long.

I have had requests from other countries for some items which the buyer clearly wanted, and have made a decision based on their feedback left for sellers. I would be very wary of sending designer clothing or bags overseas, I am always wary of sending them within the UK, that is bad enough.