NoSurprises
Straw Hat Pirate
It's worth sending them an email explaining your situation, they're a relatively small company and have always responded fairly quickly when I've emailed them with queries.
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I expect they check the postcode and building number at least, that's the most common fraud check that a website would do. But you can always send them a note. They've been a bit gruff before with people cancelling orders but aside from that they're usually very accommodating and if you were faking being a German person with an interest in reshipping, you've out a great deal of effort into the deception with all of your posts here!
Alternatively, if you can explain your alternative shipping method to them maybe they can try that to circumvent the problem of the 14GBP charge?
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Alternatively, if you can explain your alternative shipping method to them maybe they can try that to circumvent the problem of the 14GBP charge?
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Shadow Cat
Pokémon Master
Wrong postcode will fail the transaction and if you then say "Well, actually my cards registered in Germany but I wanted it sent to the UK" then they might just blacklist you for lying to begin with
Email them, explain you would like to buy (insert item) but would prefer the item be sent to your parcel forwarder in the UK to save money. Maybe link to this thread as well if you think it would help and hope they reply
From the times I've spoken to them at Hyper Japan, they're all good guys but as always, they just need to make sure the items are going to the right people
ayase
State Alchemist
Honestly Rui? Because I thought AUKN would probably be more civilised about it and have more reasonable female voices (who won't just immediately call me an evil straight white man and ignore my opinion, thank you all for this courtesy, it's a rarity theses days) than anywhere else on the internet I could bring this up. And for the most part it has, actually. I like that we have such a diverse bunch here compared to places which are just echo chambers because I like to hear different people's opinions. But I certainly don't think it's my place to tell women what sanitary products they should or shouldn't be using or anything.
It's also because I do actually care about poverty and I just find the amount of media coverage about this one (and imo, absolutely miniscule) issue and the way it's being covered ridiculous. I mean I get that the world has gone totally mad and factionalism, especially on the left, is getting to such ludicrous extremes that there are people genuinely fighting to end real poverty who are just being ignored by the media (because they're evil communists who actually want to use the power of the state and spend public money to help people in an actual life changing way) and then there's... whatever the hell this is getting articles about how brave everyone fighting the good fight to get a tiny tax removed (so the manufacturers can put the price up 5p themselves and have no money go to the government - surely everyone knows that's what will happen) and how terribly important this is from upper middle class journalists who don't have a clue. I do understand people saying it's the principle of the thing, but frankly where poverty of concerned it's only the practical that matters. Like I say, if everyone was fifty or a hundred quid better off a month through fairer housing or benefits policies or clamping down on predatory lending would this even need to be an issue at all?
It just beggars belief to me that people genuinely believe there are those for whom a few measly quid a month expenditure is a crippling problem. This is the UK where we have a comprehensive benefits system, not starving kids in Africa who need your £2 a month to eat (and where £2 is equivalent to £20 due to exploitative wages). Can these same people afford bog roll? Soap? Mains water? Electricity to run a shower and washing machine? Then I think they can probably afford sanitary products if they just buy one less packet of fags or cancel their Netflix subscription. The only people who I can imagine couldn't (or for whom that 5p in the pound would actually be a problem) are the homeless, and their problem is friggin' housing and access to benefits.
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Buzz201
Mad Scientist
To bluntly paraphrase, "It's only a bit of a problem, so it's fine." If you care so much about poverty, you'd know that every single penny counts. To dismiss something as trivial is simply ignorant. Who made you judge anyway? To suggest that the entire thing is about practicality is to ignore the fact that it's continued existence is both a symbol and a justification of misogyny. You are literally saying that there are more important things than discrimination against 50% of the population, and quite frankly, I'm sad to think people genuinely believe that.
Also, I don't know about you, but I'd like to think one of the world's richest countries could afford both housing and sanitary products! We gladly give out condoms to randy teenagers and morning-after pills to people who don't use those, why the heck can't we give out tampons?
Watanabe Ken
Magical Girl
Your forgetting the part where they give them money to by things be it a Netflix subscription, fags or some sanitary products.
I should also point out that the money the government actually makes from the tampon tax goes to a lot of charities specifically WOMEN charities ( I personally would use it on social housing instead or on free sanitary products for the homeless) so by saving women a total of £75.63 in there entire lifetime your invertedly putting vulnerable WOMEN fleeing domestic violence at risk by robbing WOMEN shelters of funding.
ayase
State Alchemist
Who am I to judge? An individual with opinions. I don't hold a position of power, I can't do anything about this (I mean it's probably a good job I can't because I'm an amoral crackpot in favour of doing things like taking everybody's sperm and eggs and then sterilising them so they can only have test-tube babies on demand and then only if they can afford them - Child poverty: Gone. Overpopulation and unemployment: Gone. Housing crisis: Solved) but I'm allowed an opinion, aren't I? Or am I not, because I'm not a woman? If that's what you believe, fair enough, but I don't think there's anything anyone shouldn't be able to state their opinion on.
We're talking about "discrimination" to the tune of literal pennies a month. This isn't misogyny. That tax isn't there because the government hates women (I wish that word wasn't used so much now it's lost all meaning) that just gives me an image of a load of male MPs sitting around guffawing as they count out their piles of 5p pieces they've stolen from innocent women to put them in their place - The 5% tax rate also covers things such as children's car seats and mobility aids for the elderly. So if it's discriminatory, it's discriminating against women, children and the elderly (if people think we should get rid of VAT altogether, now that's an interesting proposition that might really make a difference). All people have to buy things based on their biology - People with allergies to certain foods have to buy specialist foods which cost more. People with poor eyesight have to buy glasses. But you're quite right that I do consider all of these issues to be small issues and not remotely worth bothering with until we've handled the big issues. You're right. That is what I believe. I believe they're a distraction, a distraction I think is purposely caused by the media and their corporate paymasters to distract us from the big issues so they never get solved - Not to mention purposely pitting men and women against each other for what appears to be slightly sinister reasons.
And no, I don't actually think pennies (when attached to something that already costs so little) do matter in a country where you can get £73 a week unemployment benefit and the minimum wage is £7.50 an hour. There are levels of importance in tackling poverty, and this is right near the bottom. As I've no doubt said before, I'm not willing to give anyone an easy ride - I sit on the X axis of class at a 45 degree angle so I can look down on everybody. When the upper and middle classes are talking b*llocks I'll call them out, but I'll also call out the idea poor people in Britain are living in such "poverty" they can't afford sanitary towels. It's nonsense. If they can't, it's because they lost their benefits in slot machines or bought a TV from Bright House they're paying £90 a month for the next 30 years for or something. So this issue is just a perfect storm of people talking b*llocks, poor people making sh*t up and rich people amplifying it.
So do we give out free toilet roll and toothpaste as well? Who's going to organise all this and wouldn't it probably end up costing more? If the government had to handle the logistics of everybody getting free sanitary products the actual cost per box to the taxpayer would probably go up from £3 to about £10 a box. For what it's worth I don't really think people should be getting free condoms either because those are cheap enough too. Morning after pills is more difficult, because they're stupidly expensive here compared to abroad for seemingly no good reason.
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
It’s not about the money it’s a symbol the idea that a tampon is a luxury is offensive. Also the most who have Period poverty is children who are too embarrased to ask their parents to buy them.
Also in regard to your solve to all the crisises why don’t we also take old people and shoot them it’s about moral as what horrific idea you suggested
Also in regard to your solve to all the crisises why don’t we also take old people and shoot them it’s about moral as what horrific idea you suggested
Buzz201
Mad Scientist
@ayase You have completely ignored the fact that this is not about poverty. And may I politely suggest that if you genuinely think everyone on benefits is pissing away money on slot machines and abusive credit suppliers, you campaign for gambling support and easier access to low-interest credit instead of slagging off those that are trying to do something?
What the ****? We need to discriminate against them so we can give money to their charities? I'm sorry, sometimes arguments are just too stupid...
Watanabe Ken
Magical Girl
The only people who think it's discrimination are the feminist and the social justice warriors. Maybe you should get out your safe space and talk to people who aren't your typical college snowflakes who get there opinions from there gender studies professor.
ayase
State Alchemist
So why is almost everybody talking about this issue now calling it "period poverty"? I'm not in favour of discrimination, I just think the people vigorously patting themselves on the back about this issue are ultimately fighting for something which is going to have virtually zero impact on anyone's lives, all the while making out that it will be some kind of stunning victory for women and the poor. If it's about the principle, the people fighting this battle should make it about the principle, not pretend that it's going to create any practical solutions - That's what gets my goat the most and I had hoped that was clear from the outset, and that I'm not an angry man railing at women for wanting 5p discounts off tampons.
I don't think everyone on benefits pisses their money away, but I also don't think many people on benefits are concerned about this issue either, which seems to be mainly the preserve of the middle class media (who I imagine can easily afford sanitary products on their journalists' salaries). And I do support entities and campaigns that want to see affordable housing and an end to predatory lending. I don't know where you've got the impression I don't. I am a member of the Labour Party and DiEM25 and several internet pressure groups, I just don't think the way to deal with having different opinions to other people on the same end of the political spectrum is to shut up. I reserve the right to call out things I think are dumb and diversionary.
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thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
Not being sexist is SJW? Well more you know
I believe that the reason that condoms are subsidised is simply that all of the alternatives cost more than giving out free condoms, rather than to be nice to teenagers who want to do the do without asking for financial assistance from people they'd rather not have asking questions. Cynically speaking preventing women of childbearing age from missing school/work due to inability to afford tampons/sanitary pads is also, in the long term, a measure to improve productivity. Not changing a tampon frequently enough in order to save money causes toxic shock syndrome which also brings costs for what should be a relatively avoidable fatal disease.
VAT on things like glasses and hearing aids for those who need those things to function at all is also shifty. I benefit greatly from the zero-rated VAT on books, printing firms who do nothing but spam us with leaflets that go straight in the bin benefit from VAT breaks on those, yet money is set aside on the strangest of things. What ayase says about it being principle first and foremost is not wrong though. Perhaps if people didn't require tangible justifications for things as simple to understand as equality the debate would have never blown up so much :/
(I only stepped in because the anti-feminist angle leaking into the discussion here was actively annoying me. In terms of the wider political conversation I'm inclined to agree that, as with pretty much anything in the newspapers lately, it's an obvious distraction from other issues. The world is not in a great place at the moment.)
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VAT on things like glasses and hearing aids for those who need those things to function at all is also shifty. I benefit greatly from the zero-rated VAT on books, printing firms who do nothing but spam us with leaflets that go straight in the bin benefit from VAT breaks on those, yet money is set aside on the strangest of things. What ayase says about it being principle first and foremost is not wrong though. Perhaps if people didn't require tangible justifications for things as simple to understand as equality the debate would have never blown up so much :/
(I only stepped in because the anti-feminist angle leaking into the discussion here was actively annoying me. In terms of the wider political conversation I'm inclined to agree that, as with pretty much anything in the newspapers lately, it's an obvious distraction from other issues. The world is not in a great place at the moment.)
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thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
Also if you are a Labour member you should want a tax the rich not the poor the 15p tax will only effect the poor so you should be opposed to it by Labour’s whole principle of shared equality
Buzz201
Mad Scientist
The only people who think it's discriminatory are women and those that try and empathise with them? Quelle surprise.
"college snowflakes who get there opions from their gender studies".
1) We call it university here
2) Gender studies has never been a thing at any educational establishment I've attended
3) Take your silly Americanisms and bugger off, we need less of that thank you
Watanabe Ken
Magical Girl
These days simply disagreeing with WOMEN is sexist or as the kids like to call it mansplaining
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
This only effects women as there is no substitutable for men so it’s obv sexist and the person who decides if it’s a luxury is the chancellor who is a MAN
Watanabe Ken
Magical Girl
College/university Its the same thing, that being a waste of money and recruitment grounds for the far left
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
What a shame I was this far left since I was about 10. Equality I learnt young.