Thread: Resolved GMCPaul's no foreigners?
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Old 02-27-2017, 06:53 AM   #11
GMCPaul
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Re: GMCPaul's no foreigners?

No one told you to get lost. We explained
Sorry we do not accept orders from outside the USA as the costs for accepting payments from outside the USA are higher than for those inside the USA. This order has been voided & refunded

In order to get your order to go through even though we are set up so that international payments are not accepted you put your bill to location as being in the USA even though you reside outside the USA. 1 mention of this to your card issuer along with a complaint that you did not receive something and they perform a charge back and give your money back to you. How do we know this is it it's happened. After expenses we average 5-10% profits. But by being in Canada in order to pay in USA $$$$ there a currency conversion charge. So instead of paying 2.9% on the transaction + .30 per transaction we get charged 3.9% + .30 per transaction. Then they slap a 2.5% currency conversion charge on the transaction raising it to a total of 6.4% + .30 per transaction deducted from the amount you pay.
We do not sell to anyone any longer that is outside the USA financial system for the above reasons. We do not hide this fact. We make it very clear on our check out pages, and by disabling international forms of payment, and we again specify this on our policies page. But you thought you would go ahead and circumvent all this by changing the bill to information to a fake USA address which makes it a transaction ripe for fraud and if it had been a credit card payment instead of a PayPal payment the billing address not being the same as for the CC would have cost us another 1% in fees because it did not match that for the card on file.
We have nothing against those in Canada and think of Canadians as our friends but where we do business is a calculated business decision and our business is conducted in the USA alone.
All USA business's do not ship to Canada, All Canadian business's do not ship to the USA. Fraud jumps upward significantly when you sell outside the USA ( it's bad enough in the USA ) then you factor in the extra costs of accepting foreign payments, additional headaches and fraud if you actually ship outside the USA also and we've found it's just not worth the time.
We recommend Classic Heartbeat regularly for those outside the USA as Wes does deal with these extra costs and headaches. He runs a good business with Quality parts like ourselves. Give him a try and I'm sure you'll be pleased. But please do not try to circumvent a companies policy by lying on the billing address to get a order through as it costs the business even more in fees with a incorrect bill to address after they are already paying inflated card processing fees on a international transaction.
Paul Jr. @ GMCPauls
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