In the last few months I’ve found myself buying a lot of stuff on the US eBay site, and there’s a very big difference in what’s available depending on whether you have a US shipping address or not. Obviously the Global Shipping Program from eBay gets around this, but still it seems I get around 20-30% more listings when I set a US delivery address rather than my German home address. I think this is because many sellers don’t accept to use the GSP. Up to now I had an old forum friend help me out but I think, understandably, he’s had enough ! So I wondered if there was a US based forwarding service that you could use as a delivery address, and then they would forward on items that they received. Does anyone know of anything ? Obviously it becomes pointless if it’s overly expensive, but maybe forum members know if something that might work ? Any tips greatly appreciated !ll
Right... I’ve just looked and that looks very promising ! So a big thanks right off the bat Anyone here ever used the service ? My doubt would be that sellers might refuse to ship to an odd looking shipping address. Any idea what the MyUS shipping address looks like ? And edit to add: any possibility that eBay themselves wouldn’t let you use a MyUS address as a primary shipping address ? I see the eBay logo appears on the MyUS website though.
I live in Dublin Ireland and our national postal company provide an address both in the UK where lots of Amazon purchases are shipped free to a UK address and they also provide a US shipping address for American purchases. Maybe your local postal service might provide the same service. https://addresspal.anpost.ie
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