/edit - solved - See here.
Following a thread last year about buying something from the USA, I'm back with a twist.
I'm trying to buy something from the USA. It's only about $70 but they originally quoted me $300 to ship it
The package is about 11" square and weighs around 2lb. Eventually we managed to get the shipping down to about $70 with a discount being applied to the item. Yes, it's still utter ridiculous but they've got it, I want it and nobody else makes it.
Their website isn't set up properly to calculate the shipping with the alternate method we proposed so we agreed that I'd get my card details to them securely and they'd put it through manually. They tried but the card was allegedly declined. I asked them to try again, the same thing happened. I had no notification in my card app that it had been declined, nothing. I called the card company, they checked and there was nothing on their system to show a declined transaction.
I went back to the supplier and they asked me whether the card is US based, despite us having been in discussion for around a month and them knowing full well I'm in the UK. No, of course it's not a US based card you stupid, insular Americans.
It turns out that their systems will only accept US based cards, despite the fact that their website FAQ specifically says they ship worldwide. They don't accept PayPal. They've told me it'll be on Amazon soon. Yeah, Amazon US which will be completely useless to me.
So unless I can get a USA based credit card, I'm knackered.
/end rant.
Following a thread last year about buying something from the USA, I'm back with a twist.
I'm trying to buy something from the USA. It's only about $70 but they originally quoted me $300 to ship it
The package is about 11" square and weighs around 2lb. Eventually we managed to get the shipping down to about $70 with a discount being applied to the item. Yes, it's still utter ridiculous but they've got it, I want it and nobody else makes it.
Their website isn't set up properly to calculate the shipping with the alternate method we proposed so we agreed that I'd get my card details to them securely and they'd put it through manually. They tried but the card was allegedly declined. I asked them to try again, the same thing happened. I had no notification in my card app that it had been declined, nothing. I called the card company, they checked and there was nothing on their system to show a declined transaction.
I went back to the supplier and they asked me whether the card is US based, despite us having been in discussion for around a month and them knowing full well I'm in the UK. No, of course it's not a US based card you stupid, insular Americans.
It turns out that their systems will only accept US based cards, despite the fact that their website FAQ specifically says they ship worldwide. They don't accept PayPal. They've told me it'll be on Amazon soon. Yeah, Amazon US which will be completely useless to me.
So unless I can get a USA based credit card, I'm knackered.
/end rant.
