You are reading a single comment by @MicroDosed™ and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
MicroDosed™
It's been many years since I sold internationally on ebay. Today I attempted to change a listing at the request of a buyer so I could ship a stem 'Internationally'; or, to Dublin actually!!
Pre-Brexit this would have cost the same as a small parcel anywhere in the UK; so about £4. If it was possible to ship to the buyer directly, without ebay involved it would now still cost me £12.
Unfortunately, using ebay.ie, when the buyer changes his destination to Ireland, ebay automatically adds VAT to the item price and the shipping price at which point the potential buyer says "I'm out"!
I queried this with ebay and they 'very vaguely' explained that it was due to Brexit and as the buyer was paying ebay, which is a business their hands were tied.
So in my case I guess not such a big deal but I would imagine anyone who sells internationally with any regularity could likely to see their sales dwindling.....