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avolkiteshvara · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle US

The "what to pack question" got me thinking, why cant you just order what you want on-line. What impediments exist to stop someone from ordering online and recieving the product in the expat's current location.

-Is it lack of credit card or acceptable type of payment?
-Is it Postal Service not validating a foreigner's adress?
-Is it Postal Service being unreliable and possibly losing or stealing package?

It would just seem to me everyone could cut down on packing toiletries and medication by ordering online. And everything else for that matter.

saint57 · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject:

Hopefully, you didn't read my original response. The short answer is we're not in Seattle anymore.

Girl Scout · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 525 Location: Inbetween worlds

IMO the international shipping costs would stop me. That would be a waste of money.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I did it in Japan because I could afford it. For things that I ordered from the US, it was no problem paying with a credit card. For things ordered from within Japan, they had their own payment system that I eventually got the hang of...

I don't do it now because it's too expensive given my current salary and I don't trust the postal system down here. My dad sent me a CD with photos from our New Year's holiday (my folks flew down and visited Machu Picchu with me) and an extra memory stick for my camera, and I never got it. What a low, rotten thing to do--stealing someone's vacation photos! Evil or Very Mad

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avolkiteshvara · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle US

saint57 · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject:

avolkiteshvara · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle US

saint57 · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject:

I'll guide you to the answer using the Socratic Method.

First question:

Where do you plan on working?