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Don’t do it unless you know and trust the recipient.
If you ‘must’, get it crated, and professionally packed.
I have bought many things from this forum and they have all arrived intact however much I worry; the same goes for items bought here in Italy.
And ive used every mode of delivery from the cheapest to ups.
Never had a problem.
They kept my guitar hostage once and charged me a €20 "delivery fee".
I’m sure we have equal measure of fools over here too andyman said: Delivery has improved in the last five years. Anything coming from outside the eu will expect customs charge. Could it have been that?
In the end, UPS failed to deliver on time, it was the day after the guarantee, so they refunded me the entire postage cost which was an unexpected bonus.
Rob
Ebay is great when you have a genuine problem as a purchaser based on my experience of items that dont resemble the description - but there are tweets who abuse the process and leave sellers tweeted !
if you do go ahead make sure there is a contact number for recipient on courier/address labels as some Italian couriers won't even attempt to deliver without.
I don't want to belabour the point or anything, though, just answering your query. I hope things have indeed gotten better.
I'm from Italy too, and I can say I'm very sorry for the bad naming we got, especially in the early days of ebay.
Most of it is well deserved, years ago the national post service was a damn nightmare, but as said above, with competition\computerization it has greatly improved.
Also scammers that take advantage of little quirks have no nation.
The only gear scam I got into was from canada, lol... unbelievable, go figure.
Andyman, For Goods coming from outside the euro zone, Customs kinda take their time(1 week usually) and there is an added 25% for service and taxes, that's true. This happens in all eu countries.
Probably in Uk you're not used to this thanks to special international agreements with US and Japan, I have no idea.
Anyway, to respond the OP, I'd never ship anything that fragile with regular post services, was I shipping to america, australia, japan, you name it.
As said above go with UPS, DHL or something.
Fully trackable, private system, they are responsible if anything goes wrong.
Add his mobile number and email as said by mr-mac.
Since Italy is kinda narrow and long it's also important to know where you're shipping to, the souther you go the longer it might take.
In northern italy, UPS and DHL are very fast since the customs are up north.
I don't know if these same couriers are as fast elsewhere, probably it might take an extra day very down south and Islands.
Obviously you're shipping overseas, so bulletproof your package, remove valves and anything that can get broken and wrap it in bubbles.
I'm sorry I have no exeprience with big stuff from UK, but I usually use UPS\dhl for guitars and stuff from other states, never had problem.
I know you decided not to ship, and if you have the possbility to wait and sell in your state I agree. I tend to sell bigger stuff locally as well. It's less of an headache, no doubts and paranoias.
My decision is it is too risky for me and my amp ... all the best to posters of items overseas.
OP is out.
Thanks
Just exchanging ideas. For anyone interested in the future, I'd go UPS or DHL.
Imho you made the best choice, if unsure about something it's better no to risk.-.