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Originally Posted by carlking
I was born and worked in the U.S. most of my life. I chose to retire to the Philippines. I have maintaned a U.S. billing address for 7 years because i took my credit cards with me.
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This scenario is not unheard of - Americans in the Phillipines....
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Originally Posted by carlking
I think it is pretty normal for retirees or even internet marketers who like to bum around the world with their notebook.
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Yes, its normal for the retirees, but its not THAT common for US Based merchants. You said - '100,000' Americans - ok, but here in the US there are 300,000,000 people. AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE WHOLE, the 100,000 is insiginifcant.
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Originally Posted by carlking
100,000 thousand Americans live here, some of them with millions of dollars. You don't want their business?
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Yes, actually I do want them, but I am going to scrutinize that order. I had one from an American working in Germany (non-military) shipping to California. The IP Address was out of Europe, the billing address was California and the ship to was his brother at some other address. The e-mail address was a .de......Did I ship? Yes, I did, but I did scrutinize the order, I saw the customer's name on a company website, spoke to the brother, etc.
In the case of the Phillipines, the cost of UPS is going to prove cost prohibitive. Millionaires or not, I'm not mailing anything there.
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Originally Posted by carlking
Maybe you would like to stop selling digital products because sometimes they get posted on warez websites?
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What's a 'warez' website?