INTERNATIONAL BUYERS– Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. You may also experience longer shipping times due to customs-related delays. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying. It may take a day longer to respond to buyers in different time zones. · Items under $200: As a general rule, if you purchase items on eBay valued at under $200, you shouldn't have any trouble importing them. While some items are generally prohibited from import (like narcotics, tainted food or child pornography) or restricted (like alcohol, tobacco, firearms), these items are usually banned on eBay anyway. There are a few exceptions, such as plants, food, automobiles, and certain cultural items, where an item might require licenses or special permits. · Items over $200: If you import items that cost over $200 for personal use, you might have to pay a duty, or tax, on the item, even if the item is used. The amount of the duty, if any, depends on the type of the item and its value. Some items can be imported without paying any duty at all. · Items for commercial use: If you import goods for a commercial purpose, you may have to deal with possible quotas, duty, and paperwork. Commercial goods (goods intended for resale) may have special entry requirements, and it’s up to you to educate yourself on the laws to ensure you’re in compliance. · 3. Understand why many U.S. sellers do not to ship items internationally. If the buyer doesn't understand that it may take a long time for the item to arrive (even if the seller shipped it the same day payment was made), cannot communicate with, or understand communication from, the seller, doesn't understand what they were buying, or holds the seller responsible for loss or damage in transit (risks that are obviously increased by the longer journey), sellers risk issues with problems, refunds, and potential negative feedback for things totally beyond their control. With the advent of the star system, even more sellers are hesitant to do this, because they are concerned about being judged unfairly for prices and delivery times that are not under their control. · 4. Do not ask us to ship items marked as a gift instead of merchandise. Many sellers go to the same post office almost every day. The postal workers there know we sell things. They know (and notice) if we mark a package as a gift. We could get in a lot of trouble, and it can damage our rapport with our local postal workers. Also many countries are now enforcing it by going after the buyers who live in their countries - YOU can get in trouble for this as well. · 5. Leave positive feedback. Having to look up your contact info to send an email asking if it has arrived yet, and if you are happy with it, just adds to a feeling of it being bothersome. The sooner we know it has been a good transaction, the better we will feel about future sales to you, and to other international buyers. · 6. One final note - I personally really don't care for purchases from foreign buyers that are sent to companies in the U.S. that will then reship it to you. My limited experience with these so far has been that the buyers are completely unable to communicate with or understand me, that the companies themselves do not assist their buyers in handling these transactions, nor will they assist me with the transaction even if I call them for help, and that I have no control whatsover over how the company may repack it, how they will ship it, or when they will ship it - leaving me with a customer I cannot communicate with and a high risk of problems beyond my control. If you want an item from me, I expect to be the one who ships it out to you.