If you have a Paypal account you can transfer money to anyone else who also has a PayPal account.  All you need is their PayPal ID, which is an email address they use, and you can transfer money in seconds assuming you have the money in your account already.  The receiving end pays a small fee.  You can pay someone else who has a PP account by credit card through PP even if YOU don't have an account, but the receiving end pays a 4% fee.  If you have a Paypal account, you can fund your account (put money in your account that you want to transfer to someone else) with a credit card or through whatever bank account you put on file with PayPal.  Funding your PayPal account through your bank account takes 3 - 4 days normally, but I don't know how long it takes to fund your PayPal account using a credit card as I've never done that.  Funding your account is different than making a one time payment.

There may be some limitations for sending money through PayPal (one Paypal account to another) for something that's a non-auction payment, especially if you're not in the US.  So if you have an ebay ID, I can run an auction for you for a part I have for sale, or for the paid membership fee, and then you can pay for the auction via Paypal assuming you also have a PayPal account.  However, in my PayPal screen I can select things other than an auction payment, such as "Goods" or "Services".  So even if you're overseas, you should have the same selections I would guess, and you should be able to send money using one of these payment types.

I can't tell you how many times I've talked to someone that called me on the phone about a part, and they sent me the money for the part weeks later with no indication in the envelope of what the money is for, and no email address or phone number inside the envelope, and sometimes, no return address!  I get approximately 10 - 20 emails a day that I have to answer, and phone calls from all over the world from people that want parts, or just to chat about their 1300 they just bought.  I can hardly remember who wanted what from one day to the next.  There's always times people call and say they're going to send me money for something and don't do it anyway.  Other times I get a part(s) in a box with no note, so I usually assume it's something I bought off ebay and maybe put a (bad) returned part back in with my good parts.  

Also, be sure to write an address on your envelope that I can READ!  I cannot always read someone's handwriting.  So if you're not using a printed label that's easy to read, please print your name, address, what you want, etc., somewhere so that I can get your items to the correct address.  More than once I've sent something to an address that didn't exist because their '6' looked like a 'G' or whatever, or an 'L' looked like a '1'.  American addresses are pretty standard, and I could guess at it and probably get it right, but overseas addresses can be quite different, and I have to guess at it if I can't read your writing clearly!  If you sent me an email about the parts you wanted, you should also email me just before you're ready to send the money, and send me your address in the email and what you're buying.  Then you can print this email off on your computer and include it in your envelope if you're mailing me the money.

On international shipping costs, here's an "Airmail Parcel Post Rate" calculator that will give you an estimate of the shipping costs based on the weight of the item(s) you're buying.  This online published rate is not always as accurate as it should be, but most of the time it's what I use to calculate overseas shipping!  The only other way to get a correct shipping quote is for me to box everything up, and take it to the Post Office, and have them quote me a price on the spot.  That's a big hassle, and it delays shipping since I don't make special trips to the Post Office just to check shipping costs.  FEDX OR UPS is available, but I'd have to get a quote, and I'd need a complete 'Ship To' address to get a quote on shipping regardless of the carrier.  

"For those who are interested, we have a GST (goods and services tax) on imported vehicles at 10% of the value of the landed vehicle (purchase cost PLUS shipping).  There are also quarantine regulations that will require steam cleaning maybe on arrival as well as departure, so it'll be a shiny but damp vehicle when it arrives.  Maybe I'll get all the electronics stripped off of it before it goes through this treatment!"

Many countries really gouge you on all these fees, and everything I ship overseas has to be insured in case the package gets lost.  I usually insure a package for whatever you paid for the items plus the cost of shipping if I remember to add that in.  If you have to pay import fees or duties in your country then you need to figure that as an added cost to whatever you're buying.  There's no way I can change the pricing on your package to reflect a lower purchase price, because I have to insure the package for what the parts are worth, and that insured amount is shown on the package along with the shipping costs.  I cannot always change that though I realize you have to pay high import fees based on that figure.

Actually, our insurance values are limited to different rates by country.  If I'm sending you a $2000 DFI kit for example, I may only be able to insure it for a maximum of $750 using USPS Priority Mail.  To get more insurance, I would have to upgrade to USPS Express Mail (assuming I can get more insurance that way), or do FEDX, or UPS at 3 to 5 times the shipping costs.  Not worth it!  Packages that I've insured via Priority Mail have not been lost, so that's just the best option we have without paying extreme shipping costs.  I just stick with $750 insurance on a $2000 package, and say a prayer over it before it leaves.

There's only one other possible option to the high import duty issue, and that is if I don't insure your package.  If I don't insure it, then I can claim any value for the parts I want to.  But I warn all buyers that I've lost 2 packages that were NOT insured and I'm not returning anyone's money or giving credit towards other parts if you choose to go this route!  However, IF YOU STATE IN YOUR EMAIL OR WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE to me, that you waive the insurance, I will ship your package without insurance.  But I'm saying that this is a bad idea because I've never lost a package yet that was insured.  

However, if I'm sending you a $700 part and I only claim a $50 value on my package, and there's $20 shipping involved, then you pay an import fee based on $70 total value versus $720 total value.  I've heard of import duties as high as 40%, so that's a $28 dollar fee versus a $288 dollar fee.  You save $260 assuming there's no problems.  I understand the reason for doing this but here again, it's your choice if you want me to deliberately 'underinsure' your package, or not insure your package either way.

Keep in mind I have absolutely no idea how long it takes for this package to clear your Customs.  In some countries it seems pretty fast, like maybe only 7 - 10 days.  So that's 3 - 10 days once I ship it for the package to arrive at your Customs depending on how it was shipped.  Priority mail versus Express mail versus UPS for example.  Then another 7 - 27 days for it to clear your Customs 
Dept and get delivered to you.  In Canada, Australia or the UK for example, I consistently see 20 - 27 days sitting in Customs.  I can tell you that UPS, or FEDX will clear Customs much faster than items going through the regular postal service, but you're paying usually 3 - 5 times as much or more for their shipping versus the cheaper regular postal service.

Other than insurance issues and customs duties, what it comes down to is this..., most all countries package size limits are limited to either 79 inches or 108 inches 'length plus girth'.  To give an example, I have to really squeeze a stock Z1300 seat to get it in a box small enough to fit within the 79" restriction.  If you're in a country that has a 108" restriction, then it's no problem to make a box to fit a seat in for example, and with 108" to work with I could have other items in the box too.  However, a gas tank cannot go in a 79" box, as you're measuring all the way around the box, plus adding the length of the box to get a 'length plus girth' measurement.  I just can just get a gas tank in a 108" box and maybe throw something small in with it.

If I can't ship the item to your country using our Post Office because of the size or weight restrictions, then it has to go via UPS, FEDX or by freight forwarder.  That means the cost of shipping is going to increase exponentially!  Generally I've found that a package I could ship through our Post Office would cost anywhere from 2-10 times as much to go via UPS, or FEDX.  I also need a complete 'Ship To' address to get a quote on shipping regardless of the carrier.  These carriers automatically insure the package for usually a minimum of $100, and over that you pay extra for more insurance.  I don't have much experience on shipping large or heavy items through a freight forwarder (importer/exporter), but if you arrange the shipping on your end with your importer, probably all I need to do is deliver the item to a company they deal with on my end, and usually they're located around the airport.  That's not a problem for me to deliver to the airport area as long as it's our 'IAH' airport in north Houston.  Still, keep in mind that's a 2 hour roundtrip drive for me and 5 gallons of gas at $4 per gallon!  Or $20 in gas just to drive there!

Recently I had a question in regards to members in other countries buying parts off ebay, because the parts availability for Z1300's in their country is pretty much non-existent.  This particular question came from South Africa but I've been asked similar questions about buying from ebay sellers and how to get them to ship those parts overseas.  Here's my reply to a buyer in SA:

There shouldn't be too many issues with shipping things from the USA to SA.  Some ebay sellers don't like to ship overseas, some don't care.  I think the main reasons are, #1 - getting paid from an overseas buyer, and #2 - calculating the shipping cost.  Shipping is based on size and weight.  Each country has different restrictions.  For example see if you can pull up this link for shipping from our USPS 'Post Office' to SA -

The cost for a 10-pound package shipped to SA and the restrictions are:

Global Express Guaranteed Document Service
Service Speed* 2 - 3 Days, Price $180.00, Dimensions Max. length 46 inches, width 35 inches, height 46 inches and max. length plus girth = 108 inches
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Global Express Guaranteed Non-Document Service
2 - 3 Days, Max. length 46", width 35", height 46" and max. length plus girth 108"
Calculate Price based on Dimensional Weight: (a combination of size and weight)
"Maximum Size: Total Length and Girth combine may not exceed 108 inches.  Individual dimensions may not exceed: Length - 46 inches, Width - 35 inches, Height - 46 inches
Weight may not exceed 70 pounds"
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Global Express Mail (EMS) 
3 - 5 Days, $73.50, Max. length 36inches, max. length plus girth = 79 inches
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Airmail Parcel Post 
4 - 10 Days, $51.50, Max. length 42inches, max. length plus girth = 79 inches
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Economy (Surface, usually by boat) Parcel Post 
4 - 6 Weeks, $32.00, Max. length 42inches, max. length plus girth = 79 inches
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I usually use our Post Office to ship overseas 'USPS', and ship 'Airmail Parcel Post' because of the high cost of shipping 'Global Express'.  The problem is usually not weight but size "max. length plus girth = 79".  Just to give you an idea; you know how big a stock seat is on our bikes; I shipped one recently and was barely able to make the box fit this 79 inch dimension restriction as the seat is about 44 or 45 inches long I think and I had to really squeeze it.  A 79 inch (length plus girth) box is not a very big box so that really puts a hamper on what you can buy and ship through our Post Office.  Some countries are 108 inches length plus girth, so that's a little easier to deal with but even with that size restriction there's still quite a few parts on these bikes that can't be shipped this way because they're still too big or too heavy.

Options are FEDX, or UPS.  Originally I had checked with them and they all quoted in the $350 - $500 USD range for that size and weight box.  The only other option I know of is going to an import/export company. Then there are hoops to jump through and restrictions to follow to make that happen too.  I can't even imagine what it would cost to try to ship one of these KZ1300 engines to SA on a crate at around 350lbs. Within the USA I can ship a motor airfreight from one end of the country to the other for $175 or so and it's there in 3 days.  To SA it may be $800 and 30-60 days on a ship!  

Bottom line is if you're overseas and you want to buy something whether it's on ebay or whatever and they'll only ship to a USA address, you could have it shipped to my address which is posted on this page.  Then I can re-ship international or take it to an export company for you here in Houston.  But I need to paid for any of that sort of thing up-front before I'll do it.  I want to help people get parts, and I know we have members all over the world that need things, but I can't do it without being compensated for my time and gas.  Just locally it's a 40 minute round trip to drive into town and mail something.  Any export company around Houston is going to be a minimum 2 to 3 hours drive for me round trip.