I've been wondering what paint I should use for this fixture: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=8814&pos=1&pid=259144. Here are some images to see why and what paint to use.

I think the main problem is shipping to israel...

I checked, DHL still states the have difficulties with shipping, because israel is doing the dirty work for the west and that may pose an inconvenience to them...

Wow that's a lot!

See the attachment.
I wanted to buy a Venture HPS-DE 70W HPS lamp for my tracklight, but the total cost is >400ILS including shipping.

@dor123 Could you include a screenshot?

Unsurprisingly, there are different shipping prices depending on where the viewer is located. For me it says that it's about 36 GBP for postage and import taxes.

Seems normal to me - 11 pounds (ex vat) to the Netherlands. That is a completely normal amount of money for an international delivery from UK to NL.
Shipping it halfway across the world will of course be more expensive.

Well, the mess in the whole world won't help to make it any lower at all...

Why the shipping rates on eBay are so expensive? In the past, they were lower.
I wanted to buy a Venture HPS-DE 70W R7s HPS lamp at eBay, but look at the costs: link

Probably the best way to downsize is to donate. They’re not worth wasting time trying to sell. I’m sure most collectors already have what I have, and to the LED world they are worth next to nothing. I don’t have much that is truly valuable and make a lot of money. I just collected for my own pleasure that’s it. No historical value.

Dave,

I've had no issues selling on eBay...only complaint is wishing the items would sell sooner.

I guess this complements an older post I made asking about the Chinese lamps. But anyways, I found an EYE 175w BT-shaped clear mercury vapor lamp that says it was made in Taiwan.

I have seen plenty of EYE lamps made in Japan and even a few in China but never any made in Taiwan. Does anyone know more about them and what the quality is like?