Buying From Abroad On Ebay

I would say that most of the mega cheap stuff is from the sellers from China, p&p is usually high, if you read lots of their feedback they have negs for fakes, goods not arriving etc.

If you think you have found a bargain make sure that you read their feedback comments and also look at their feedback to make sure there is nothing out of the ordinary - such as not trading for a long time and suddenly listing a PS3 for 50p.

Had no problems buying stuff from the US. In fact, now's the best time to do so, as the exchange rate is $2 to the £. Import duties won't/shouldn't be a problem if you keep below the £18 threshold, or your seller marks the value down (or marks it as a gift). I recently bought some shoes on Ebay.com (cost me £36 all in instead of the £60-90 they cost over here). The seller marked the value down as $20 on the customs declaration form. The cost of the shoes alone was double that in reality. Customs never looked twice at them coming through and they arrived safely without additional costs. I didn't even ask the seller to mark them down!

have been using USA for Ink Cartridges and Germany for A3 Photo Paper

very reasonable prices and delivered within the week:j

Buying from abroad isn't much more difficult than buying domestically in my experience. I buy numerous hard to find or much sort after items from Japan to sell in the UK, EU, Australia and New Zealand. I also buy certain unique items in Australasia to sell in the UK, EU and Japan. Payment was often the biggest problem next to customs and duty limits, but fortunately I sorted those out long ago.

I used to sell quite a bit to the USA, but these days with the cheap Yankee Dollar I tend to be a buyer only. I'll probably start selling to the USA in a few years when their currency and economy recover.