Albert, you are truly a gentleman. I forgot to mention that I had a bad experience a couple of months ago with a guy in China. I arranged to sell him a standard 15 amp iec which is what my ad stated. He sent me a money order from his bank and it took 3 weeks for it to clear through my bank plus my bank added a hefty service charge. I went ahead and shipped the cord immediately knowing it was going to take a while to clear. When the buyer received the cord, he sent me a nasty e-mail threatening to put bad feedback on my profile. Because of his poor English usage in the e-mail I couldn't quite understand why he was so upset. He then got a friend to send me a better e-mail that I could understand and included a picture of the male end of the cord and accused me of tampering or modifying it. It turned out that he had never seen a standard iec connection and apparently his unit he was going to use it on had some other type of connection. After several e-mail transactions, in frustration, I agreed to send him back his money, less the bank service charge, and he would have to pay to return ship the cord as it wasn't my fault that he didn't check to see what his unit's connection had. I specifically stated in my ad that the cord had the 15 amp iec connection.That is why I am a little tentative about doing International selling or buying. For me this was a very stressful time that I don't want to go through again. I feel I'm an honest person and I want to always keep a perfect record in my Audiogon profile.
Drawbacks from selling overseas ?
I searched the forum engine and couldn't find much info on this, but occasionally when I'm selling something,I'll put in U.S. only in the ad. I still get an occasional e-mail from somewhere else in the world( today from a gentleman in Seoul, Korea ) requesting to buy anyway. Let's say I don't get any reasonable offers within a certain time frame and this guy in Korea is still willing to pay the full amount.What are the drawbacks for me the seller ? Is there a safe and protected form of payment from the buyer ? I would like to hear some recommendations and/or experiences. Thanks.