sending cpu to Russia?

Flashheart · 7 Sep 2014 at 13:11

So I've sold my old i7 965 to some Russian. All the funds are received.

Anyone any idea about shipping it? Does it need declaring etc?

Wasn't entirely sure where to put this!

breadturbo · 7 Sep 2014 at 13:31

http://dhlguide.co.uk/export-to-russia/

"There is no import duty for shipments into Russia with a customs value of less than 200 EUR (including transport cost)"

biuro74 · 7 Sep 2014 at 18:00

I'd let them use "their own technology" as Mr Putin declared ;-)

Minstadave · 7 Sep 2014 at 18:01

I hope they didn't pay by PayPal.

FloppyPoppy · 8 Sep 2014 at 00:14

Minstadave said:
I hope they didn't pay by PayPal.

I had a friend send a gpu to a Russian who payed PayPal as you can imagine he "never received" the gpu and got his money back

P4Clock · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:47

Send Fully tracked - or it will be a refund job.
i have only ever sent one item out side the UK, it was on the bay, the guy gave my feedback saying good item then opened a dispute and got a refund as there was no tracking. that made me £200 lighter

Minstadave · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:51

Not sure even tracked delivery will protect you against a PayPal claim.

cheesyboy · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:53

P4Clock said:
Send Fully tracked - or it will be a refund job.
i have only ever sent one item out side the UK, it was on the bay, the guy gave my feedback saying good item then opened a dispute and got a refund as there was no tracking. that made me £200 lighter

I sold something to France for £120. Sent it tracked, tracking said it hadn't arrived. THe guy was unusually patient about it but put in a claim near the 60 day mark, and I gave a refund.

I then contacted Royal Mail, who looked into the claim with France Post (or whatever they're called) who updated the tracking to say delivered, and RM wouldn't refund me. I couldn't get the cash back of the Ebay guy, so lost out. I suspect the item was delivered earlier, but the tracking not updated, and the guy used the incomplete tracking as his basis to make the claim.

It's my only bad experience of selling on Ebay after selling approx 150 items for total of around £3k, but it still irritates me.

Akagi · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:54

Refund because you checked the CPU again, and "discovered it was faulty" or "wasn't the model advertised".

Re-advertise to UK buyers only.

paulstung · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:55

P4Clock said:
Send Fully tracked - or it will be a refund job.
i have only ever sent one item out side the UK, it was on the bay, the guy gave my feedback saying good item then opened a dispute and got a refund as there was no tracking. that made me £200 lighter

I had a similar problem with the bay and Paypal, I sold a case about a year ago, and the guy received it, all be it 2 days late, as my local postal sorting office had a flood, but a week later the Bay got in touch saying he had opened a case, because it arrived later than specified, Paypal as usual went with the buyer, and gave him a full refund, it took me 4 months to resolve the issue.

Flashheart · 8 Sep 2014 at 12:02

Thanks guys, I've cancelled the transaction and refuned the monies. I knew there must be a reason she was prepared to drop £120 on it.

I'll move it into the mm for quick sale

Minstadave · 8 Sep 2014 at 12:15

Sensible move.