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@ricarmic wrote:This kind of made me chuckle today.
With Germany's new rules, it does not make fiscal/time sense for me to sell to them anymore after July 1st and I figured on the weekend I might as well block them now.
I've always prided myself on shipping everywhere, but since I was going to block Germany and break that rule, and may have been grumpier than normal, I blocked more, at final count 102 countries got blocked! (This is also a way of easing my way into "retirement" whatever that might actually mean).
Today I got two return to sender items, one that was sent to Ururguay a YEAR ago, and one sent to Germany* in April*. Both countries were put into the blocked list on the weekend! Very odd that both came back today!! Both buyers received refunds so they aren't out.
Today I also got two more INRs from Uruguay, they will probably eventually arrive and the buyer will repay but for now the buyer's been refunded for them too.
*see a separate thread regarding electronic VAT numbers.
If you are like me you are both!
I'm going to let eBay block Germany, I blocked Australia last years when USPS out an embargo in them (since removed) and I was getting fed up with the South American issues so I blocked them as well and tossed in Africa as well even though in all my time here I only made one sale to Africa and that buyer had me ship to a relative in Hamilton!
Like you, from 1999 until Covid I was a ship to anyone, anywhere seller and probably would still be if not for the fact that the combination of too many US sellers who would not ship to foreigners (even via forwarders), constantly increasing shipping costs (no room for profit there anymore) and the final nail the imposition of VAT. What was once 60%+ of my sales (overseas) had sunk to less than 10% and 99% of delivery problems.
