Bought a low value card yesterday, and got an invoice from Goldin today, and this must be insane shipping&handeling, After all, I pay premium and seller probely paid a fee for selling.
A 10$ cards, end up with all fees total 110,29$
PSA shippes cards at 34$, why does Goldin charge 94,77$
Not much you can do about it then, I live in Norway as well and shipping is crazy. You also have to be ready for import charges too. I would open a PWCC vault. I send a lot of card there and then do one big shipment per year and I save a ton doing this
Such low value cards should be a c/uc and hence, widely available everywhere by the same regard.
I would thus buy such low value cards locally, either from sellers or card shops in my local area. Would never buy from websites or overseas due to high shipping costs.
Peter from Goldin here. Sorry that you had a negative experience with the shipping. Goldin uses a minimum tier of service with Fedex (I believe 7 day for Europe but don’t quote me), and there is unfortunately costs associated with that, even if your items are only $10-20 each. The system does not allow for lower level shipping like an untracked or global cargo freight option as then packages would take one to three months and people would be complaining about shipping times and some would do chargebacks. What I personally do is just send all my items to the vault and then ship from there. You will save the sales tax and then only pay $6 per card ($1 after 90 days) to ship anywhere on the planet (I live in Canada and had a package show up this week only after a few days).
Hit me up any time you have Goldin questions or issues!