Thanks for your comments @njee20 , much appreciated.

I shall look closer at selling outside UK on eBay and maybe try a few experiments.

Not on Facebook and Sheila and I prefer the simplicity of eBay's 'Simple Delivery' system with its g'tees and low prices on postage etc.

Fingers crossed, but sadly our PHP version is very out of date, due to compatibility of the modifications.  With a lack of sponsors, I just haven't been able to go ahead with that sort of maintenance.  I will approach someone to see what can be done, and hopefully they can also fix the Alerts issue.

Scary that so many websites are going down around the world. 

The biggest issue you will have is that N gauge in the Uk is a small marker. Continental N within the UK is even smaller. If you want a quick sale then you may struggle, but that isn't necessarily indicative of your pricing being wrong. The eBay global seller program is very low hassle - you just post things to an address in the Midlands and they handle onward distribution (which my phone just autocorrected to "onward destruction" - perhaps prophetically!), so opening it up to foreign buyers needn't be a pain. I'm led to believe the postage fees buyers see aren't overly compelling, but you may get a few sales. I've had 20 or so over the years and never had a problem.

Are you on Facebook? The N'Porium classified page is many times more active than here; with the added advantage that you're putting stuff straight into people's consciousness, without them needing to go looking in the first place.

Quote from: Steven B on Today at 09:13:05 AMeBay link to Daffy's eBay account, rather than trying to search for it:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/sheeps833

Many thanks for that Steven.

This selling N gauge thing is a headache for me at the best of times, which is one of the reasons I'm only selling to UK residents. So any help like this is appreciated.

On another tack...

At the moment the items I've listed are a bit of an experiment as far as prices are concerned. I do my best to look at values and condition - so far all are perfect and NIB - but gauging (N-gauging? )the market has me struggling with my divining rod!

Aussie's fault again. I know, I'm married to one     

eBay link to Daffy's eBay account, rather than trying to search for it:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/sheeps833

Frustrating as it is that's what they've chosen. You can ask, but "I shouldn't have to..." is a bit entitled. It may be that they don't want the aggro of dealing with international (or specifically Australian) orders, where returns get complicated etc. They are telling you the price, there is no requirement to make that equivalent to the face value of the postage even if they were only paying £12, and there's no obligation on you to buy.

Quote from: Newportnobby on Yesterday at 11:00:43 AMYeah, one BG won't weigh 2kgs unless they put it in a lead box topped up with lead shot

I've just weighed a few Dapol models and estimate that, allowing for packaging, an order of say 8 locomotives or 12 coaches would each weigh less than 2 kg. I have also checked on my order for six pullmans from Revolution, and they are charging just £18!
 

Quote from: cmason on Yesterday at 10:22:01 AM@Stuart Down Under

Hi Stuart,
just been e-mailing with Andrea@Dapol to make a small adjust to my order and questioning the shipping and the pricing:
"As we do not know the total weight yet we will say the order will probably come out with DHL as Royal Mail it has to be under 2kg"
So I think it would be worth you asking Dapol to ship to you with Royal Mail (which , for example, would be 13 quid if it were Rails),

Cheers, Colin.

thanks, Colin. Yes, I have been communicating with Andrea. Her response to me was "I am sorry but that is our standard rate to Australia per order (not item), most overseas customer do larger orders, just unfortunate that you have only ordered one N Gauge coach." No mention of DHL, but I will try again. I can go to plan B and have it posted to a UK relative, but I shouldn't need to do that.

 

Very nice indeed, Martin @port perran ! Sounds a bit like Clem Clempson (ex Coliseum).

Tim