https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324...5:g:daQAAOSw4cxg9Fvg
Steve, yes, if you thought you were wasting too much time on Ebay already---many items won't be seen unless you access the local Ebay (UK, Germany, France, Italy), especially if the seller hasn't wanted the bother of preparing quotes for everywhere in the world. A lot of the time, it just takes a polite request to get the OK, before the auction end...
But there is a very different profile of what is available--strangely, DeT parts are far more available in the US than anywhere but for example, Ebay Germany is full of Polish and Czech fans with vorkriegs Mercedes parts.
Ebay's software is so gawd^&
%*Q_mn awful that even when the seller agrees in message to ship, Ebay sometimes won't allow checkout. I've complained to ebay about this time and again, a seller is kind enough to agree to ship to the US and then get hit with exactly the bother they wanted to avoid. Frankly when this happens you may need to send 'pictures' of your own email address, etc to transfer your email, any information to pay...or request the person to bill you, etc. Unbelievably, I've even had Ebay service (when they respond) instruct me to finish the sale outside the Ebay system--otherwise a capital offense.
But so far, it usually works. It can be painful, but the stuff we are normally looking for is impossible to find otherwise, the stuff that only appears every few years...And like the brake handle, just old stuff for common cars in some parts of the world.
Shipping costs from England are actually surprisingly reasonable. And if not from Germany, you can avoid DH-Hell...(Die Hassige Lugner...but that's another story..)--Lee