GSP was a huge help to us after Brexit, but now that it's been cancelled and ebay does not deal with the paperwork, it is no longer reasonable to buy from my favorite UK shops or basically to buy anything from outside the EU on ebay.
Add my two thumbs down to yours
No idea what you mean, "Global Shipping Programme" aka GSP still exists, just no longer available for sellers in the USA, I checked one of my listings on ebay.de and it shows shipping to your location via GSP.
Many business sellers can't be bothered with the paperwork, which has always existed between USA & EU. It's not hard to find the additional tariff codes. I sent items to France, Germany & Finland with no problems last year.
The problem I have is USA to the UK, with "Ebay International Shipping" only the UK* is singled out for most items and ePay don't give a damn.
*and countries with global trade bans from the USA.
Yes. Sometime last summer (I think that was the approximate time) searching for items seemed to lose results from most US sellers if I was on ebay.co.uk. Switch to search on ebay.com and lo and behold, searches produced results but with the 'this seller does not ship to your location' problem.
I've sucessfully arranged for a courier to pick up a bit of Agilent kit from a seller who didn't want to arrange shipping themselves when asked. I did have to help the seller with completing the invoice and packing slip but DHL in the UK were very helpful - and it worked out cheaper than expected. It was also fast - with GSP items would often spend a week or more getting shipped from one US location to another before crossing the atlantic.
This is exactly as I've found, I've used a third party search website (picclick) for years, as it's faster than ebay and clicking items that show shipping to "US & many other countries", then once you follow the link to ebay there is no UK shipping, as the pictures I added last night show.
I have used Transglobal Express in the past for USA items, DHL was the shipping option used, but this isn't an option for BIN items that might disappear, before you have a chance to ask the seller if they are OK with this* and sometimes they have to manually allow me to buy/bid, items are often sold before I get a reply.
*not everyone can wait in all day for a collection by DHL, or travel to a DHL shop.
David