International Selling

Created May 21, 2026

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Information, questions, and exchange of experience about international trade across national borders.

audiotubes_de
New packaging regulation from August 2026
Typical example of EU madness. I’m supposed to register in half of the EU countries regarding packaging. Some countries have a de minimis rule, others require licensing from the very first package. If I use Lizenzero, it costs me about €2400 per year. And that as a small business owner. Who knows what else will come after that. This is another strategy by the EU monsters, pushing the little guys out and leaving everything to the big ones. Better out of the EU. Long live bureaucracy reduction
Jun 22, 2026 at 12:15 PMlast reply 1 week ago
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kluhtu
Return Italy - Germany
Hello everyone, I hope the wisdom of the crowd can contribute something to my case. So I sold my iPhone to Italy, the phone was always treated carefully and worked perfectly. But when it arrived in Italy with the buyer, he only sent a picture with the charging cable connected, the screen was black and said he wanted to return it because it no longer works. So this picture is absolutely not meaningful, because plug it in and then turn the screen off, well, okay. I accepted the return, being clueless as I am, and then wanted to buy a return label via eBay or Parcel2Go. But then I end up on eBay Italy and there it shows me there are no open returns, so I can't buy anything either. Then I tried to buy a label through DHL, GLS and UPS, but unfortunately I then need the buyer's personal tax number. Of course you can imagine that the guy won't give me his number. Seems like a pretty simple scam to me… eBay's German phone support helped as best they could and forwarded the request, but now the Italians are dealing with it, well and lo and behold, nothing is happening at all. Now my iPhone is gone and I haven't received any money. Thanks for nothing, eBay. So my question to the community: has anyone ever had a case like this, and if so how did they deal with it?
2 weeks agolast reply 2 weeks ago
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cosmoretroshop
PPWR madness
hello I just received the email about PPWR that was sent by eBay and then, just for fun, I visited the "service provider/advertising partner." Their site doesn’t work properly, at least for me, and I have jumping lines etc. The deadline is 12.08., but eBay’s information is so vague that it’s not clear to me how and, if at all, whether I should respond. So far I haven’t found any current discussion about this in the forum, but if this really gets pushed through, it will wipe out small and medium-sized retail within the EU. Ideas, opinions, ideas for action ?
Jun 22, 2026 at 8:56 AMlast reply Jun 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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New packaging regulation from August 2026

Return Italy - Germany

PPWR madness