Shipping cost is very high about $57 for France. For taxes, it depends on what you're declared in the customs declaration. For the payment, the best I think is PAYPAL method.
Normally you can deal without fear with almost people in this forum but now we see that we have a lot of news users, I think it’s preferable to check the profile and perhaps search in the feed back forum to prevent bad surprise, because when you live too far from the states, it's very hard to do something if you've some problems like wrong ball, ball do not exactly like in description etc..
Thanks.