[Lionheart]

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Speakng as someone who is actually from America I can say they are pretty different. To ship with tracking or confirmation to Alaska or Hawaii doesn't cost much more than any other state for most packages. Getting tracking to the UK or even Canada costs 2-3 times more. Sure shipping without tracking isn't too much more than shipping with tracking in US but that is apples and oranges since they clearly don't want to ship untracked. Yes, others stores do it but many decide not to I can understand why. Once your business has had a few international packages "lost" and your are forced to eat the cost from dishonest people you start requiring confirmation and a direct signature.

Look, I respect what you’re saying, but as I said – all they have to do is charge for registered / trackable and then if something goes missing they claim from the PO. It’s pure laziness, which for an individual eBay seller who may not have time is understandable, but for the website of a huge toy company it just isn’t. Even Toys ‘R’ Us US now ships internationally.

US to UK is literally from sorting office to sorting office (US) then across the ocean with a zillion other items / people per day. Madre above says he had issues with China, but there are big differences between mainland Asia, Africa, etc and Europe – and I’m not just talking languages. Heck – even South America is less reliable to ship to / from than Europe.

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I had a guy ask me about shipping to his country. I explained that i will only ship priority mail because it is trackable. He says to get him a price, i come back with $36.30 and he had a fit. Sorry if you international people feel your getting screwed but this is what it has come to.

I can understand that. I usually only order First Class International, and have only ever had one or two things not make it out of several hundred. The tracking is there to protect people, but if it’s not that valuable it often isn’t worth it. Also, tracked items will go through customs and will get charged import if they’re above a certain value.

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It's weird, I can ship stuff MOC to the states and other countries for less than half of that with tracking. It just feels like, half the time, people use the old ebay trick of bumping up the shipping. Personally, I don't mind paying the extra tracking but you can tell when some are giving an incorrect shipping.

This is also true, many sellers give the option but hike up the cost just to cover the added work it might involve.

All I'm saying is that if Hasbro US has a market that it will happily use to make money - like the UK, Ireland, or wherever - then it has an obligation not to constantly disrespect that market. Hasbro UK is totally under the orders of Hasbro US and has no power whatsoever when it comes to obtaining or selling toys. They sold MU in UK supermarkets with Nick Fury proudly proclaiming the option to subscribe and get him etc – which you couldn’t even do! That’s just one example of a toyline that got maybe a 50% UK release – if that. Hasbro will then justify this by saying that the line (every single one) didn't sell as well. But really, would any US toyline sell better or worse if the buyers knew that 50% of everything in that line was only going to be released outside the US?

Don't even get me started on Mattel...