Worldwide... really?

hubbabubba

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This is not a joke. As my wife was perusing EBay for things to buy as gifts, she fell on this umbrella's seller;

Item location: MEMPHIS, TN, United States
Ships to:Worldwide
See shipping location exclusions


So far, so good. But then comes the following;

Shipping to: Worldwide
Excludes: New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Guadeloupe, Marshall Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Gambia, Malaysia, Mayotte, Taiwan, Poland, Suriname, Oman, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Middle East, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Senegal, Armenia, Bhutan, Uzbekistan, Ireland, Qatar, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Netherlands, Burundi, Slovakia, Iraq, Equatorial Guinea, Slovenia, Thailand, North America, Aruba, American Samoa, Sweden, Iceland, Macedonia, Liechtenstein, Israel, Kuwait, Belgium, Algeria, Benin, Russian Federation, Oceania, Antigua and Barbuda, Italy, Swaziland, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ukraine, Singapore, Panama, Burkina Faso, Jersey, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Reunion, Djibouti, Chile, Puerto Rico, China, Mali, Croatia, Republic of, Botswana, Cambodia, Portugal, Indonesia, Malta, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Paraguay, Cayman Islands, Saint Helena, Cyprus, Rwanda, Seychelles, Australia, Bangladesh, Austria, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Gabon Republic, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cote d Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Norway, Kiribati, Turkmenistan, Greece, Grenada, Haiti, Greenland, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bahamas, Asia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, United Kingdom, Dominica, Montenegro, Africa, Mongolia, Nepal, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Angola, South America, Southeast Asia, Western Samoa, France, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Central America and Caribbean, Guatemala, Denmark, Vatican City State, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, Nauru, French Guiana, Anguilla, El Salvador, Guam, Micronesia, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, Guyana, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Georgia, Tonga, New Caledonia, San Marino, Eritrea, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belarus, Europe, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Uruguay, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Western Sahara, Congo, Republic of the, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Spain, Estonia, Bermuda, Montserrat, Korea, South, Zambia, Somalia, Vanuatu, Ecuador, Albania, Monaco, Guernsey, Ethiopia, Laos, Niger, Venezuela, Ghana, Cape Verde Islands, Martinique, Moldova, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Madagascar, Lebanon, Liberia, Bolivia, Maldives, Gibraltar, Libya, Hong Kong, Central African Republic, Lesotho, Nigeria, Saint Lucia, Mauritius, Guinea, Jordan, Canada, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Andorra, Romania, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Netherlands Antilles, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Palau, Malawi, Nicaragua, Finland, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Uganda, Brazil, Turkey, Barbados, Germany, Tuvalu, Jamaica, Latvia, Egypt, Niue, Honduras, Brunei Darussalam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), South Africa


Anyone can tell me where shipping to IS possible?:kilroy:
 
Fair enough if you don't get shipping... but to TOP the list!
It's not even alphabetical.
Are these the places they don't want to ship to, most of all??
Sheesh... North America I can understand. ;)
 
Fair enough if you don't get shipping... but to TOP the list!
It's not even alphabetical.
Are these the places they don't want to ship to, most of all??
Sheesh... North America I can understand. ;)

The exclusion list is copy-pasted "as is"...:isadizzy:

Since Africa is the only continent not mentioned, I finally found Lybia... yeah!; great market for umbrellas these days!LOL!

P.S.- Dang! I misspelled Libya... and it is on the list... sorry Muhamar!
P.P.S.- Apparently, inhabitants of São Tomé and Principe, Sudan and South-Sudan, are admissible.
 
Shipping to: Worldwide
Excludes: New Zealand .........




Yeah, I've sometimes wondered if we're part of this great existence :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

Pete.
 
It's OK... since all the rugby in the world is happening right here, right now, they don't need to ship anything for a while...
Go the Warriors!
And the All Blacks!
 
True story:
Couple of years back i was buying some toys for my kid in ebay, i found this deal but the seller had "worldwide" but excluded pretty much the planet (just like the one being described), so i contacted the seller, asked "Why you put shipping as worldwide but you exclude almost every single country in the world"..the answer:
"Because we ship worldwide, to the whole continental United States"..
...yeah, i flipped as well laughing...

Best regards

Prowler
 
...yeah, i flipped as well laughing...
Exactly my reaction when I read it!:icon_lol:

Antarctica's not on the list!
You're right! And an umbrella make sense in a 150mph blizzard...

I'm no expert in EBay, but don't they have a "continental U.S. only" option? Especially when you think that these offers are payed per words used.:monkies:
To all the Kiwis; with rugby, your are now on top in two lists!:applause:

P.S.- Just forgot; if he wanted to keep it continental U.S., why write North America then?
 
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