Amazon does not ship electronics to Aus anymore?

[KLR]

Hi, all

I tried to get a network card from Amazon and was advised that they do not
ship it to Australia. I send them an e-mail. Thei responce is at the end of
the message. While some itsems do make sense, I can not understand what is
wrong with electronics and similar stuff.

its typical american crap - you see the same on ebay from many of
their sellers. They seem to have no bloody brains - or are just good
ol fashioned racists / stuck up.

 

[Ken Taylor]

Hi, all

I tried to get a network card from Amazon and was advised that they do not
ship it to Australia. I send them an e-mail. Thei responce is at the end of
the message. While some itsems do make sense, I can not understand what is
wrong with electronics and similar stuff.

Thank you for writing to Amazon.com.

I'm sorry, but at this time we are not able to ship the following
merchandise outside the U.S.:

Camera & Photo products

Cell Phones and accessories

Computer & Video Games

Computers

Electronics

Jewelry & Watches

Kitchen & Housewares

Magazine subscriptions

Outdoor Living products

Software

Tools & Hardware

Toys & Games

Baby items

Target items



Rudolf

That's interesting - our global parent uses a US company to run it's
internal rewards scheme, which can earn you 'prizes' from their catalog.
However they've also just told us that they will no longer ship electronic
goods overseas (great for a global rewards scheme!).

Has anyone heard of any new regulations the US may have brought in which
would cause this, or have they all suddenly decided that dealing with people
with different standards of power, transmission, etc etc is too much
bother??

Ken

 

[Rod Speed]

its typical american crap - you see the
same on ebay from many of their sellers.

You see the same thing on ebay and
with other web floggers here too.

They seem to have no bloody brains

Or they arent interested in bothering, just like ours arent.

- or are just good ol fashioned racists

Mindless stuff. There aint just one race in yankeeland, cretin.

/ stuck up.

Their choice. Just like it is with ours too.

 

[Rod Speed]

That's interesting - our global parent uses a US company to run it's
internal rewards scheme, which can earn you 'prizes' from their catalog.
However they've also just told us that they will no longer ship electronic
goods overseas (great for a global rewards scheme!).

Has anyone heard of any new regulations the
US may have brought in which would cause this,

Nope, no such animal.

or have they all suddenly decided that dealing
with people with different standards of power,
transmission, etc etc is too much bother??

Yep.

Tho we have also seen an increasing trend with lower power
devices to have universal supplys that work anywhere as
long as the physical mains plug detail is allowed for.

Its understandable that they dont want to bother to
decide which electronic stuff has a supply like that tho.

 

[Rudolf Ladyzhenskii]

Hi, all

I tried to get a network card from Amazon and was advised that they do not
ship it to Australia. I send them an e-mail. Thei responce is at the end of
the message. While some itsems do make sense, I can not understand what is
wrong with electronics and similar stuff.

Thank you for writing to Amazon.com.

I'm sorry, but at this time we are not able to ship the following
merchandise outside the U.S.:

Camera & Photo products

Cell Phones and accessories

Computer & Video Games

Computers

Electronics

Jewelry & Watches

Kitchen & Housewares

Magazine subscriptions

Outdoor Living products

Software

Tools & Hardware

Toys & Games

Baby items

Target items



Rudolf

 

[Adrian Jansen]

Its part of their wonderful new free trade agreement with us.

--
Regards,

Adrian Jansen
J & K MicroSystems
Microcomputer solutions for industrial control

 

[Terry Collins]

Ken Taylor wrote:


....snip.......

Has anyone heard of any new regulations the US may have brought in which
would cause this, or have they all suddenly decided that dealing with people
with different standards of power, transmission, etc etc is too much
bother??

Ohhh, wild guesses.

1) Anti-terrorist measure to deny terrorist cheap remote controls,
timers, etc. So we will just stop sending them overseas. No probs, the
terrorist will just order them from the country of manufacture.

2) The shipper can not longer find their local post office.

3) It is easier just to slide everything into a UPS/Fed-Ex/?? envelope
and call them to pick up. That is cheaper then sending someone to the
post office.

 

[Ken Taylor]

Ken Taylor wrote:


...snip.......



Ohhh, wild guesses.

1) Anti-terrorist measure to deny terrorist cheap remote controls,
timers, etc. So we will just stop sending them overseas. No probs, the
terrorist will just order them from the country of manufacture.

Common sense has gone out the US window, so quite possible some measure is
in force, though it doesn't seem so.

2) The shipper can not longer find their local post office.

More than likely (well, they *are* American!)

3) It is easier just to slide everything into a UPS/Fed-Ex/?? envelope
and call them to pick up. That is cheaper then sending someone to the
post office.

They won't even send by courier! They used UPS as recently as December, but
now - forget it. Who wants a sale anyway? Go figure.

Ken

 

[[email protected]]

Hi, all

I tried to get a network card from Amazon and was advised that they do not
ship it to Australia. I send them an e-mail. Thei responce is at the end of

What's wrong with network cards that are available locally? Is there
something particular about this card that requires you to purchase it
from Amazon? If so, there's probably someone who imports them into
Australia, and probably available in Melbourne.

the message. While some itsems do make sense, I can not understand what is
wrong with electronics and similar stuff.

Probably nothing, other than the cost of sending it over here and
having to provide a warranty, both would be pretty cost-ineffective
for Amazon, considering that there are local suppliers who could
probably easily beat their price. Note that I'm talking about
completed products, not individual semiconductors or other components
that make up a product.

 

[Ken Taylor]

Scarcely.

Ken

Its part of their wonderful new free trade agreement with us.

--
Regards,

Adrian Jansen
J & K MicroSystems
Microcomputer solutions for industrial control
what

 

[Rod Speed]

Its part of their wonderful new free trade agreement with us.

Nope, that hasnt even happened yet.

 

[Terry Collins]

Melbourne price $199A
Amazon Price $84US + $12US p/h which is about $135A

Err, what card is that? 10 Gb FO?

 

[onestone]

This is all a part of the ridiculous knee jerk reaction to 9/11.
Everyone outside of the US is now viewed as a potential terrorist.
Anything with a hint of electronics or technology is viewed as a
potential weapon. The American security agencies are so inept that it is
simpler to ban everyone and everything. Al Qaeda has already won.
American is a land of shit scared pussy politicians. So shit scared
anything might happen they've effectively locked themselves off. The
recent debacles with international airlines was typical, I hope the US
government gets its arse sued off. They (and our governemnt) have
instituted ridiculous 'security' policies that provide no real
protection, rather than sit down, study the problem, which, after all
has been a fact of european life for the last 40 years, and come up with
genuine solutions.

Q1. Why aren't El Al planes hijacked regularly? they are the #1 target
for Arab terrorists. In fact I can't rememeber the last one that was
hijacked.

Q2. How do the Israelis do that without imposing massive inconvenience
on passengers, as the US and AUs has done? ( I travelled El Al a lot,
and the inconveniience was always trivial, it was less inconvenience to
fly from London to Tel Aviv than it is to fly from Adelaide to
Melbourne. What a joke the banned items are.

Q3. Why haven't terrorists managed to fly a plane into any Israeli
buildings?

Israel has been fighting this sort of terrorism for years, it knows what
works and what doesn't, hire them to advise you on security, the CIA,
NSA, NRO, FBI have all failed.

Venting,

Al

 

[onestone]

What's wrong with network cards that are available locally? Is there
something particular about this card that requires you to purchase it
from Amazon? If so, there's probably someone who imports them into
Australia, and probably available in Melbourne.

The Camera I wanted was US$1400 (AUS$1900) from most US catalogue
suppliers with very high quality zoom lens. The cheapest I can find it
locally is AUS$3000 just for the body, and another AUS$800 for the lens.
Why would I support the local rip off merchant?

It's getting a little like the early 90's here again. When the '486-25
was the hottest thing around I was getting quotes around the AUS$20k
mark for it. I bought one in LA with all the software I needed, stayed a
week, rented a car and had a holiday, all for AUS$6500, except our
computer retailers are no longer the problem.

Al

 

[Rudolf Ladyzhenskii]

What's wrong with network cards that are available locally? Is there

something particular about this card that requires you to purchase it
from Amazon? If so, there's probably someone who imports them into
Australia, and probably available in Melbourne.

Melbourne price $199A
Amazon Price $84US + $12US p/h which is about $135A

I always buy technical books, for example, from Amazon. Local prices are
just too high.

Rudolf

 

[Rudolf Ladyzhenskii]

You see the same thing on ebay and
with other web floggers here too.

Actually, I tried eBay as well. Few of the cards I need there. All will be
shipped within US only.

Rudolf

 

[Jim Jones]

This is all a part of the ridiculous knee jerk reaction to 9/11.

Crap. Plenty chose to not bother with exports long before 9/11

Everyone outside of the US is now viewed as a potential terrorist.

Have fun explaining why Amazon is still quite happy to export books.

Anything with a hint of electronics or
technology is viewed as a potential weapon.

Mindless stuff on your part. Plenty still export that stuff.

The American security agencies are so inept that
it is simpler to ban everyone and everything.

Pity that that clearly hasnt affected those who still export.

Al Qaeda has already won.

Pathetic, really.

American is a land of shit scared pussy politicians.

More mindless stuff.

So shit scared anything might happen
they've effectively locked themselves off.

Have fun explaining the operations that still export.

The recent debacles with international airlines was
typical, I hope the US government gets its arse sued off.

Taint gunna happen, you watch.

They (and our governemnt) have instituted ridiculous
'security' policies that provide no real protection,

How odd that there hasnt been a successful hijacking since 9/11

rather than sit down, study the problem, which,
after all has been a fact of european life for the
last 40 years, and come up with genuine solutions.

No need. No plane full of passengers will be doing what a hijacker
demands ever again and all thats really needed now is to ensure
that they cant have anything much to wave around now. Thats all
it needs no so the passengers who arent about to be crashed to
their deaths will just kick any hijacker stupid enough to try it to dead.

Q1. Why aren't El Al planes hijacked regularly?
they are the #1 target for Arab terrorists. In fact
I can't rememeber the last one that was hijacked.

Sure, but there is no need for that relatively expensive approach now.

Q2. How do the Israelis do that without imposing massive
inconvenience on passengers, as the US and AUs has done?

By spending considerably more. No point now.

( I travelled El Al a lot, and the inconveniience was
always trivial, it was less inconvenience to fly from
London to Tel Aviv than it is to fly from Adelaide to
Melbourne. What a joke the banned items are.

Q3. Why haven't terrorists managed to
fly a plane into any Israeli buildings?

All academic now, no one will let any more hijack a plane now.

Israel has been fighting this sort of terrorism for years,
it knows what works and what doesn't, hire them to advise
you on security, the CIA, NSA, NRO, FBI have all failed.

No need now, no hijacker will succeed again. You watch.

Venting,

Mindlessly venting in fact.

 

[Rod Speed]

Actually, I tried eBay as well. Few of the cards
I need there. All will be shipped within US only.

There's still plenty of operations happy to export, like www.outpost.com

 

[Trevor Wilson]

There's still plenty of operations happy to export, like www.outpost.com

**Mmmm. Fry's. Best shop on the planet. Kinda like a Dick Smith Powerhouse
on steroids. In fact, Fry's is where DSE got the idea from.

 

[Rudolf Ladyzhenskii]

It is 10BaseT Compact Flash low power Ethernet card.
Normally being used with PDAs. I use it with a custom system.

Rudolf