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Are items like cellphones, laptop batteries or any other electronic goods banned or just not shipped to South Africa by Amazon?
 
Hmmm, yes you can, you will sometimes see that and item for e.g. a cellphone will list 15 new and say 3 used, if you click on new you will see the list of suppliers that sell the item, you then need to look closely @ each one to see who offers international shipping and get the rate. And that is how you get the item here... a bit of a wait sometimes but works.
 
What Richie35 said:
I've bought electronics galore from Amazon.com, you just need to get a reseller that ships internationally.

Amazon.com themselves don't sell most of the items they have on their store. Fulfilled by indicates which reseller is selling it.
 
samaras said:
Are items like cellphones, laptop batteries or any other electronic goods banned or just not shipped to South Africa by Amazon?
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In the past items couldn't be shipped to SA because of sanctions.

These days they can't be shipped here because they get stolen or lost along the way. Gotta love it!
 
Wyzak said:
In the past items couldn't be shipped to SA because of sanctions.

These days they can't be shipped here because they get stolen or lost along the way. Gotta love it!
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ja the skelms are busy!!
 
Wyzak said:
These days they can't be shipped here because they get stolen or lost along the way. Gotta love it!
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So is that why the same goods cant be shipped the Netherlands / Sweden / Switzerland / Australia / etc from US Amazon? Are their postal services also so shoddy? :rolleyes:

The reason is actually a combination of manufacturer restrictions, warranty issues and federal law.
 
vinodh said:
Amazon did ship to SA and then they stopped. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/4156-amazon-cuts-shipping-to-south-africa.html
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Thats strange, the article (from 2008) says they changed the options you can take, not that they stopped shipping altogether... Just ordered a book too, no problems having it shipped here. Plus, before that most electronics could not have been shipped here anyway, so your point is what?

And Amazon itself says
The majority of items in Amazon's product catalog (automotive, baby, clothing, consumer electronics, health and personal care, home and garden, industrial and scientific, jewelry, pet supplies, shoes, software, sporting goods, tools, toys, video games, and watches) can be shipped to the following countries:

•Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela
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Is Amazon wrong about its own shipping policies? :erm: .....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=596184
 
You spoke about federal law, warranties etc being the reason. That article indicated that it was actually fraud that was the problem.
 
vinodh said:
You spoke about federal law, warranties etc being the reason. That article indicated that it was actually fraud that was the problem.
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You are not understanding:
Items that already could be shipped went onto a more expensive shipping option -> fraud/theft
Items that could never could be shipped regardless of shipping option -> rules, regulations, warranties etc
 
Point taken. :)

Amazon Global, however, does ship to SA but have a lot less items available and they are more expensive. Useless.
 
samaras said:
Are items like cellphones, laptop batteries or any other electronic goods banned or just not shipped to South Africa by Amazon?
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Amazon itself sells a limited amount of electronics, software, games, etc using their Amazon Global Program to customers in South Africa.

But most electronics, software, games, etc are not on this list.

However, some Amazon resellers ship to South Africa.

To find out which items ship to SA, first find your item on Amazon.com,
and then, click on the "x new" found under the price - see picture: amazon001.jpg

(Note that in the picture the Project Diva game cannot ship to South Africa. However, one can still but it directly.)

Then you'll get a list of resellers and next to each one look for "International & domestic shipping rates". see this picture: amazon002.jpg

Adding these items to your cart is possible, and you'll be able to ship these directly to South Africa, via the reseller.
 
Traditionally Amazon shipped ALL DVDs, ALL BLURAYS, ALL CDS, ALL BOOKS to their list of international destinations, including South Africa. Games, clothing, software, electronics, food products etc. could NOT be shipped to this list of international destinations. Amazon.com would not ship to SA or UK or Hong Kong. The permitted items could ship by surface mail or SAL (surface air drop), air mail and UPS or DHL courier, depending on which period you bought from them. Duties were not prepaid. Everything from the CD, DVD, BD, and book department would ship without restrictions. The DVD itself said "For sale in the United States and Canada ONLY" and Amazon would ship it to SA.

However, recently Amazon has been adding CDs, DVDs, BDs, and books to their Amazon Global Program. This Program pre-pays customs duties. I think if you overpay they refund you, if you underpay - maybe you score a bonus. This shipping is however a bit more expensive.

What has now also started to happen is that Amazon is also now restricting DVD, BD etc sales to international customers. It's not a South African thing, it's a NON-US address thing. Which is why when I tried to order this Bluray set --->
http://www.amazon.com/Bakemonogatar...qid=1358445324&sr=8-1&keywords=bakemonogatari
I was not able to purchase it from Amazon, but I was able to get it cheaper from the distributor, who shipped it to me without issues.
 
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