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Originally Posted by Condiment King

Ignorance is frustrating you’re right. I currently work in shipping, I’m about to head to work and ship stuff all day, I sent to America all the time, it can be expensive, companies can usually negotiate rates with couriers, and a big company like Mattel has a lot of negotiating power, I work for a fairly small company and with our rates this would be £150 tops, so should be what, around £600, saying it would be £200 shipping is being generous to them, and even then we are only at £650. The fact that they are charging £9 shipping here suggests they plan on bulk importing all units needed for the U.K. (massive savings over sending 1 unit to each individual international address), and then charge us £9 to get it from wherever it landed in the U.K. to our homes, the company I work for can currently send any size package within the U.K. for £6.50.

At the risk of sounding patronising, I really do know what I’m talking about here, trust me, Mattel are taking the piss when it comes to international orders with this item.

Nah your fine..not 100% right but based on your job sounds like you have a good idea. So as I said before not all of the charges for overseas shipping are correct. But for some of it may be. Am I excusing Mattel, NOPE. Its just not as bad as people are making it out to be...for some. For others the price can be laughable.