I stopped selling abroad years ago, when ebay started taking FVFs from P&P costs. Selling glass is always risky and to my mind sending overseas is likely to be even more risky than shorter journeys within the UK. What I sell tends to be either small and delicate or large and chunky, either way it has to have "bomb-proof" packaging and will end up being at least RM Medium Parcel size with overseas postage costs high. Ebay's fees made it much less attractive.
But it was the Money Back Guarantee that stopped me selling abroad when it became clear that some buyers were taking advantage and returning as NAD rather than Change of Mind to avoid the return postage cost and adding to my costs to get the item back. Particularly as there was no guarantee that a buyer would pack the item as carefully as I had done to get it to them in one piece.
IMO my almost full-stop in sales in April hasn't been caused by the super-rich fleeing the UK for tax purposes, but the constant rumours (before the election) that the Triple Lock was about to be reneged-on and then after the election the immediate grabbing back of the Winter Fuel Allowance which I and many other pensioners saw as a only the next installment of a campaign to whittle away at pensioners income that had already started with the freeze on Tax Allowances. There's more to come in the future IMO.
So many in my age group have battened down the hatches for the storm ahead and stopped buying anything that isn't an immediate need.
