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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Oldtoker on February 08, 2012, 11:06 am

Title: Why do sellers not declare their country?
Post by: Oldtoker on February 08, 2012, 11:06 am
Do they realize they are losing business?  I know there are certain countries I will not order from because of possible customs problems.  Don't they realize it is to the advantage of both the seller and the buyer to know where it is being shipped from?
Title: Re: Why do sellers not declare their country?
Post by: yaosh on February 08, 2012, 12:54 pm
+1
Title: Re: Why do sellers not declare their country?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on February 08, 2012, 04:06 pm
- guess the intention is to remain anonymous and / or they have different shipping / posting routes, a partner or supplier posting from eu and themselves us ...lets say..

- if you are just looking at the list of subs in the table then rather drill down and find out more about the vendor......if its the product what you're after rather than where it
   comes from...!?

- some vendors do add detail on their profile but often its not descriptive enough...

Title: Re: Why do sellers not declare their country?
Post by: wxevkexi on February 08, 2012, 04:17 pm
Do they realize they are losing business?  I know there are certain countries I will not order from because of possible customs problems.  Don't they realize it is to the advantage of both the seller and the buyer to know where it is being shipped from?

Some of these guys (GammaGoblin) mention the originating countries in their vendor page though. They ship from several countries, while avoiding high risk ones (like Netherlands). Asbjorn does something similar (although he does declare his own country, which may or may not be that). I actually like this. I mean, if they are actually actively working on the problem of intercepted deliveries in a rational, smart way, then more power to them.
Title: Re: Why do sellers not declare their country?
Post by: bobbykorn on February 08, 2012, 10:38 pm
Yea I bet its a security issue... the less LE knows the better. I don't care where it comes from as long as its not from the Netherlands since their customs likes to open packages and do all the drugs.