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Subject: 
'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.people
Date: 
Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:12:40 GMT
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I'm fed up with this on ebay/brickbay.

What is it with you people ? Is your postal service that unsafe ?
Or are just (backward) children in a play-pen? Duh !
Grow up. You're not that fr*%^n central to the cosmos.
Each time I see 'Will ship to United States only'' ...
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R. Webb



Message has 10 Replies:
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
(...) I find it irritating too, but I can certainly see why they do it: US citizens are the largest body of online e-commerce users - they're the biggest market. US postal service will give them fixed-rate, guaranteed service and they never have to (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.theory)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
(...) Not usually, but many overseas postal services are. (...) Is that an insult? (...) No, I'm not. I think ++Lar is, in fact, the center of the cosmos. ;^) (...) I can't speak for everyone else, but in my case, it has to do with time. In the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
(...) <very $#%(&#^ rant!> Oh that's it. This REALLY get's my giggy! Where are you? What do you want? I'll send it gad nabbit. My post office is 24 hours. I'll go right now and get some rates. This should probably go elsewhere and will most likely (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
Ronan & All, (...) Well, I am fed up with many things as well, it is understandable, but there are reasons for this. (...) This is on the borderline of good taste, and I think if you want people to consider shipping to other places than just the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.shipping)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
(...) I can explain one of the main reasons quite clearly. The small (low single digit) percentage of my former sales to international customers did not justify the huge amount of time and effort it took to ship things to them. Am I losing sales by (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
I find it annoying as well. And even if I ask nice enough, most people will send me something, because I am in Canada. It seems most people are worried about overseas selling. I think that is understandable. I have not and most likely will no (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
Ronan Webb wrote in message ... (...) The easy answer is to buy from the many people who, like myself, DO ship internationally. Pick a Canadian and you pick someone whose sales are 95% international and has international paying and shipping down to (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
"Ronan Webb" <rwebb@ehnospamaltavista.net> wrote in message news:G7su7w.2ts@lugnet.com... (...) The interesting thing is, that whilst many of the replies to this have defended the USA postal service (words like 'Guaranteed'), it is disappointing (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
This isn't a reply to Ronan as much as to the thread in general. I've never restricted any of my sales or auctions to the US only, but I can certainly see why one would want to. It does take extra time and effort to sell internationally; receiving (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
  Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
 
I discoverd something a few months back, and now seems an approriate time to mention it. Did you (generic you) know that it is prohibited to send Lego to Italy via the USPS? (URL) page lists prohibitions for Italy, in the list it says "Toys not made (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)

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