Advice on selling to Carribean and Mexico

[VanMo]

Anyone have experience or advise about selling online to the Carribean and/or Mexican markets?

Freight? Payment? Tarriff issues etc?

Thanks.

[KevinC]

The amount of fraud that might come from this region probably scares most merchants away. Although there might be a real niche market if you can figure out how to weed out the real from fraudlent orders.

[oldpro]

Speaking from experience...

Packages tend to "get lost in the mail" quite frequently in Mexico...no matter what delivery service you use. For this reason, we recently quit shipping orders to Mexico.

As an aside we have manufacturing operation in Mexico...even shipping orders from there to other parts of Mexico get "lost". Mail sent to us from our Mexico operation always gets to us, but when we send mail there...about half the time it never makes it.

I am not sure what the problem is there, but I think anything in a box with a customs value declaration on it get permanently "borrowed"

[memo06dic]

I'm from mexico and I shop a lot from b&h photo video, cameras, lenses & accesories, they ship in UPS and I get them delivered to my home in 3-5 buisness days. I also shop for clothing and I've never had a problem with my packages.

[sleepy_eye]

memo06dic is right, UPS is the only way to ship to Mexico. US mail gets lost or arrives very very late. We used to ship to Mexico US mail and a couple items showed up worn. UPS is alot more $ but you can track it and if the customer bares the cost, then it works
I havent tried fed ex or dhl.