TL;DR I didn’t make it in time. Fuck you Trump!

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    2 months ago

    Props to whoever this company is. This is one of the best bits of customer service I’ve seen in years.

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      2 months ago

      Solid boundaries, clearly communicated. Giving the customer a choice without hurting their own bottom line. I agree. Excellent handling of the situation.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        2 months ago

        I mean technically it’s not the company’s responsibility. If you’ve ordered something and they’ve sent it in a reasonable time frame and it just gets charged extra on entry. It’s not the company putting the price up, it’s your own government, so you don’t really have a recourse.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Pretty standard business practice for the U.S. is “The Customer Can Always Get Fucked.” There’s a lot of money that’s basically just been stolen from me because I got tired with fighting the company to just ship me the thing I paid for, and I either bought the thing somewhere else or decided I didn’t want it anymore. Most companies don’t even actually have customer service, just chatbots or outsourced chumps who only seem to exist for Americans to yell at, because they have no authority to do, view, or fix anything.

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      2 months ago

      I may don’t know how the law works but I believe (at least in my vountry) if you agree on thr conditions you can’t pull a Darth Vader and alter the conditions after signing/ordering and paying.

      Now if there is a clause that states otherwise this may change.

      But I agree, at least they are open and upfront with it.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Doesn’t matter on their end. If they wanted to they could ship it and let it get held up by customs with a demand to pay the tariff to release it.

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        2 months ago

        Import duties are not always part of the agreement.

        They didn’t change the rules, there is now a charge by the government on it getting delivered, not by the company.

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          2 months ago

          I would change “not always” to “practically never”. Every e-commerce site I have ever used warns you that you are responsible for import duties if shipped internationally.

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        2 months ago

        They are not changing anything. They are warning the customer import charges wil incur if the purchase proceeds. They gain nothing and stand to lose a sale.