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"Mostly in the US"? Of course, it's only being sold in the US. Do you know how awful it is for a single customer to try to buy something from another country?
by fiatjaf 9y ago
"Mostly in the US"?
Of course, it's only being sold in the US. Do you know how awful it is for a single customer to try to buy something from another country?
- balls187 9y ago> Do you know how awful it is for a single customer to try to buy something from another country? Would you mind elaborating?
- r3bl 9y agoI think I can sum it up like this: no worldwide delivery for a substantial amount of products you can buy online + higher shipping costs + import cost (in my country, anything above ~30 bucks) + occasional delivery failure + at least a month of waiting for the actual delivery. I once payed ~$30 import tax for ~$40 worth of books from Amazon. I ended up purchasing Kindle (no delivery inside of my country, so I had it delivered to another country + didn't declare it at the airport) just to avoid dealing with all of the above for book deliveries. And I'm not living anywhere remotely inaccessible. I've lived most of my life like 500 meters + a river away from the European Union country.
- balls187 9y agoThanks. In a previous life, I worked on a duty calculator, to help merchants inform their customers about any estimated duties, taxes and fees associated with the importation of goods. Being in the US, it's pretty easy getting goods so cross border commerce pains is something we can't easily empathize with.