One reason I do not sell large items overseas from my mini business with knitting machines is that there is both a size and weight limit on Air Mail at the Post Office, so selling something which weighs over 2 Kg when packed or is over the limit for length means I would have to use a carrier. The lowest weight limit for the carriers is in excess of what I want to ship - and the cost is several times higher too.

I can sell cables and small spare parts easily enough, though if there are several orders getting them all ready to take to the Post Office can take most of the morning and it is mid afternoon before I am back at home, but the cost per parcel is reasonable and the delivery is usually under a week.

With the convertion fees, standard PayPal fees, and sometimes errors in guessing the final weight, or not paring down everything possible and being a few grams into the next weight level I do make losses on the postage.

It is usually only pennies, so not going to put me out of business.

When I mention on the Yahoo Groups that I have made a good purchase I often get demands to know how much to ship it to the States - and then there is a shocked silence when I tell them XX amount plus the cost of a container that will get the machine to them in one piece.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: