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I ordered a metal mini on eBay today. It's coming from Europe and i havent done that before. There was no estimated dilivery date though. Does anyone know about how long it takes mail to get from Europe to the US? Says the seller is in someplace called koblenz or something. I'm guessing Germany maybe?

It is going to be a while. International shipments take weeks.

I work at Paypal and get this question a ton! It all depends on what country it is coming from. Some countries take longer, some shorter depending on their customs procedures. Shipping from England is pretty quick 2 weeks or so, France and Germany takes a little longer at 15-20 days, Italy for some unknown reason takes about 20-30 days. Russia? about 30-35.

The thing that stumps me? China takes about 2 weeks

alyxander100 wrote:
I work at Paypal and get this question a ton! It all depends on what country it is coming from. Some countries take longer, some shorter depending on their customs proceedures. Shipping form England is pretty quick 2 weeks or so, France and Germany takes a little longer at 15-20 days, Italy for some unknown reason takes about 20-30 days. Russia? about 30-35.

The thing that stumps me? China takes about 2 weeks

Italy has easily the worst postal system in the civilized world. I know a ton of ebay sellers who refuse to ship there due to high volume of packages never arriving.

Russia always says 30+ days, but my current order from there passed customs in about 6 days, so unless it's gonna take 3 weeks to fly here, it should be much shorter.

I work at Paypal

I both love you and hate you, now.

R.

lol...yeah..I get that alot Love me when the payments go through, hate me when there is a dispute. We are the best and worst thing to happen to the e-commerce world

Uk I've always had two weeks or less. I can't imagine Germany being much longer than that, but it'll be at least that long. Hope you don't need it for a tourney in a week.

na no rush. I don't have a lot of experience with purchasing out of the country. Was just curious on how long standard shipping from that far would take. I don't usually leave feed back tell after I recieve the item but I didn't know how long I should take. I didn't want to jump the gun and have an unrealistic time frame and accuse anyone of not following through with their side of the deal.

 Aerethan wrote:

alyxander100 wrote:
I work at Paypal and get this question a ton! It all depends on what country it is coming from. Some countries take longer, some shorter depending on their customs proceedures. Shipping form England is pretty quick 2 weeks or so, France and Germany takes a little longer at 15-20 days, Italy for some unknown reason takes about 20-30 days. Russia? about 30-35.

The thing that stumps me? China takes about 2 weeks

Italy has easily the worst postal system in the civilized world. I know a ton of ebay sellers who refuse to ship there due to high volume of packages never arriving.

Russia always says 30+ days, but my current order from there passed customs in about 6 days, so unless it's gonna take 3 weeks to fly here, it should be much shorter.

In fairness i have yet to have any problems with Italy at all. That said it is early days and i will probably wake up tomorrow to a ton of emails from Italians asking where their models are!