Did you consider buying one in the US (or wherever you are/online) and then mailing it to them? I recently was going to mail a new Mac M1 to a university stude

Did you consider buying one in the US (or wherever you are/online) and then mailing it to them? I recently was going to mail a new Mac M1 to a university student in a foreign country. I found services that specialized in it that would do it for $99, FWIW