This place is littered with friggin Aussies

As my "good guys list" indicates, I've had many good experiences dealing with bblake. I was also one of the "CONUS Only" sellers, but bblake approached me in a very reasonable fashion understanding the risks and willing to pay extra for international shipping. I would never hesitate on dealing with an Aussie like him again :D

Greg
 
Upon contemplation of this thread, I have added a tid bit about international shipping on my sale thread. We'll see how that works out. :D
 
The Question: Do you know how they call Aussies in England?

The Answer: Oz-holes

I just want to declarte that I have many good Australian friends and it's just a joke, not to create any bad feelings and such. Just to show you I mean no harm, I'll tell you another joke about Canadians.

What's Canada, Dad,

It's the 51st State, son.
 
steelnut said:
My friend married a girl from Tokyo.
They wanted to know if Busse Combat was popular in Japan?

I keep asking her to find me a nice sword!
something fron the 12th century maybe:eek:
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Owning, and even more, carrying, knives in Japan is really frowned on. Especially if you are gaijin! At the time (don't know about now) it was illegal for a shop to sell a knife to non-Japanese. Given the history of knife making in Seki City, I was really hoping to score a few when I was there. But no.

They even stopped me for having a screwdriver in my suitcase! (and this was WAY before 9-11 when tools were "okay") They were nice enough about it, once we all understood the concern. They gave my tools to the pilot who had them to customer service way before I got there.

Ken
 
ive shipped overseas (outside conus) many times and will continue to do so.

poland, uk, australia, germany, holland, etc.

my only concern is liability for lost/damaged/stolen items.

as long as the buyer is willing to accept responsibility for the package once en route and will pay appropriate customs fees (i list items as they are for the full value) i ship happily.
 
As far as shipping, I have had around thirty knives sent from the States to Brazil without a hitch. The trick is to send it USPS with insurance.
 
As far as shipping, I have had around thirty knives sent from the States to Brazil without a hitch. The trick is to send it USPS with insurance. To Brazil FEDEX and DHL don't work because they always get charged 100% import duties. With USPS they just do a sample check where 90% of the packages go thru without having to pay any duties. I have not had the same success rate for items shipping out of Canada. I don't know why, maybe the insurance follow-up isn't good or something but several packages have just dissapeared between Canada and Brazil and NONE have dissapeared from the U.S. to Brazil. Interesting.....
 
Good points Alex. I didn't know about the random sampling thing.

There are a few issues, like if the package has a declared value of over $1k AUS they pull it aside and there's extra fees, right? But it seems to be worth the extra cash to pay for USPS Express. Those seem to float right through unchecked and get there in under 5 days. I mark them as 'gifts' so they don't have to pay the fees.

bblake is being humble. Ask him about the 25 other INFI's he's stashing. :p
 
I have sold non conus but would never list as a gift...it is a federal form
 
Damn the Man said:
I mark them as 'gifts' so they don't have to pay the fees.
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FWIW that doesn't work and in fact may attract more attention. Anything under AUD$1000 value (including all shipping/insurance etc) has no additonal fees via USPS (UPS often charge made up fees). Anything over AUD$1000 attracts GST of 10% and customs duty, typically 5% but it depends on what the item is. Items made in the USA are exempt from the additional custom duty regardless of value due to our free trade agreement between the two countries (hmm wonder if all those refusing to ship here are breaking some law under that agreement?)
 
Progunner said:
I don't like to ship overseas because I am a Hog and I like to keep the INFI on US soil! :D No just kidding. Even though almost all my sales indicate that I will cover CONUS shipping, I will usually ship outside the US, as bblake and some others can attest. Most never ask because I suppose they assume I won't. I never thought to put a disclaimer in my sale threads saying I would ship outside the US for actual costs. My big thing with overseas shipping is not being able to insure the package 99% of the time. I also will not ship to folks who ask me to lie about the value of the contents on the customs form. I am not falsifying a federal form to save someone else money. If they want it bad enough, that is the price they pay.
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Like my mentor, PG, I will certainly ship overseas to anyone I have no reason to distrust. I, too, will not lie. It's a personal policy -- I call it 'integrity.':)

I won't lie for the US government...I won't lie for my corporate bosses...well, I just won't lie.

And I'm not sorry.
 
kbuzbee said:
Owning, and even more, carrying, knives in Japan is really frowned on. Especially if you are gaijin! At the time (don't know about now) it was illegal for a shop to sell a knife to non-Japanese. Given the history of knife making in Seki City, I was really hoping to score a few when I was there. But no.

They even stopped me for having a screwdriver in my suitcase! (and this was WAY before 9-11 when tools were "okay") They were nice enough about it, once we all understood the concern. They gave my tools to the pilot who had them to customer service way before I got there.

Ken
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My brother, you gave up too soon. There are ways -- they can and will ship it to you overseas. They just won't hand it to you.
 
We have shipped to many countries, Australia, Japan, Norway and Sweden just to name a few. We always use USPS Global Express and insure for full value and so far everything has been great. I know I wouldn't be happy if a store in Europe or someplace else in the world said they wouldn't take the time to ship to me.
 
kbuzbee said:
Owning, and even more, carrying, knives in Japan is really frowned on. Especially if you are gaijin! At the time (don't know about now) it was illegal for a shop to sell a knife to non-Japanese. Given the history of knife making in Seki City, I was really hoping to score a few when I was there. But no.

They even stopped me for having a screwdriver in my suitcase! (and this was WAY before 9-11 when tools were "okay") They were nice enough about it, once we all understood the concern. They gave my tools to the pilot who had them to customer service way before I got there.

Ken
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As far as I know buying knives is okay - many big stores like Tokyu Hands sell them as well as all the speciality knife shops. There is also no problem with selling them to foreigners. But one of the guys in a speciality knife shop told me the laws state that you can't carry them around with you in the cities. He said that workers on building sites and gardeners were the only exceptions and even then there were limits on what kind. Also he said double edged blades were a complete no-no and if you have a sword it must be registered with the police but knives don't need to be registered. So I have about a dozen Busse / Rats, a few others and a SAK and Swiss Army Tool and have had no problems owning them but NEVER carry them except when camping / hiking and even then keep them in my pack until out in the countryside.
 
Mrs. Skunk said:
We have shipped to many countries, Australia, Japan, Norway and Sweden just to name a few. We always use USPS Global Express and insure for full value and so far everything has been great. I know I wouldn't be happy if a store in Europe or someplace else in the world said they wouldn't take the time to ship to me.
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Thanks for all you do Mrs. Skunk. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
OldPhysics said:
Like my mentor, PG, I will certainly ship overseas to anyone I have no reason to distrust. I, too, will not lie. It's a personal policy -- I call it 'integrity.':)

I won't lie for the US government...I won't lie for my corporate bosses...well, I just won't lie.

And I'm not sorry.
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The Pork is strong in this one! Never has one of the few taken under my wing progressed to inducted Hog status as fast as you my friend. :D

apsilon said:
FWIW that doesn't work and in fact may attract more attention. Anything under AUD$1000 value (including all shipping/insurance etc) has no additonal fees via USPS (UPS often charge made up fees). Anything over AUD$1000 attracts GST of 10% and customs duty, typically 5% but it depends on what the item is. Items made in the USA are exempt from the additional custom duty regardless of value due to our free trade agreement between the two countries (hmm wonder if all those refusing to ship here are breaking some law under that agreement?)
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apsilon, that is great information to have! I don't think you could press the breaking free trade agreement though, you can't make someone do business with you. Lord knows I have tried at times. :D
 
Progunner said:
apsilon, that is great information to have! I don't think you could press the breaking free trade agreement though, you can't make someone do business with you. Lord knows I have tried at times. :D
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What, you don't think it's worth causing a diplomatic incident in order to get my knife? :p
 
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