Even if you indicate in your product description that you will not ship internationally, you will get bids from outside the US. You should welcome, rather than discourage, such bids. In some cases, the special circumstances of the bidders make it likely that they will be willing to pay out of all proportion to the perceived value of the item in the US.

The cost of shipping a package that weighs less than four pounds is less than $10 to most countries. And, in any case, you can set the terms when you post the item, and should have it as "buyer pays shipping."

At one of our chat sessions, Ron Rothenberg noted that he had just sold a keyboard to someone in Brazil. The winning bid was $30, and the shipping charge was $40. Even at a total cost of $70, the buyer was delighted -- to him, in his local marketplace, this was a bargain.

My best comic book customers were in Germany, the Netherlands, and Qatar (on the Persian Gulf). Two of them paid with credit card, and the other sent US currency in cash by snail mail (see the section on "credit cards" above).

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