Shipping Details
An explanation for the crazy international shipping costs:
The issue is that international shipping with any sort of order guarantee is just incredibly expensive.
The issue really comes down to credit card processors and delivery guarantees.
I
can use USPS to ship to most international destinations via regular First Class International
mail for like under $10, however - there is absolutely no guarantee or
tracking on that.
So when USPS screws up, and the customer
doesn't get their package (which happens 25% or more of the time in my
experience) then I'm then left as the one responsible. I end up having
to refund the customer, and I'm out the lost product so it's double cost to me, and I have an angry customer...
So the more expensive services that generally cost $40 USD or more are the only ones that have delivery guarantee/insurance, and international tracking.
