eBay for foreign sellers

I'm eBay seller since 2008 in this article will try to analize challenges that I haved to solve during this adventure

Pros: 

If you have stuff for selling this is excelent place to be visible all over the world

When you have registration in eBay you easy can sell in all other eBay sites (for example your American stuff is better to be sold in Europe and your European stuff is better to be sold in USA

You can make profesisonal looking listings with a lot of onformation)

For that reson sell international (again even if you have your local eBay it is great opportunity to atract international bidders) 

You can buy a lot of durty cheap things especially from China and Hong Kong for your own consumig you rarelly will have a Customs issue(depends of value and quantitiy)

Cons:

If you are not US citizen or do not have a local eBay site there is no big benefits to starve to became Power seller or Top rated seller

There was a very stupid shipping policy - when you try to estimate your shipping costs in some cases may be they are excceed alowed 

Seller protection - this is hilarious buyers rule you pay only taxes sellers can't leave a negative or neutral feedback only positive

Detailed seller ratings criteria:

Item as described and Communication - that is perfect

Shiping time - are you crazy??? You are not postal operator to can manage any logistic issue like international transport or domestic prossecing and delivery

Shipping and handling charges - I'm allways trying to provide actual shipping costs and do not include gasoline to the postal office or packaging materials (unfortunately a lot of sellers include all taxes and shipping materials and extra cost in the shipping costs), but as a buyer I have to check amount of stamps in local curency and compare the rate with US dolar - Who do this always

Taxes - be carefull especially new sellers (nowadays there is 100 free listings auction format) but you have to be ready to pay in the end of month

By he way you have 3 taxes selling on eBay 

For the listings

for the final vaue

for the PayPal payment ( thats why a lot of Germans do not use PayPal)

Any comments are welcome!