Yahoo US shopping - joke of the year?

[expat]

Being in a black mood today the below answer reads like a joke in times of a "World-Wide-Web" and freedom of trade, etc

Hello Martin,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Ad Central.

Unfortunately, we do not currently accept non-U.S. Stores, except for
Canada:

http://ca.store.yahoo.com

Australia:

http://au.store.yahoo.com

and Singapore:

http://sg.store.yahoo.com

We are aware of the demand for this service and are currently working on
having other International Stores in the near future.

Please note: To apply for a U.S. Yahoo! Store, Merchant Solutions, or
Product Submit account, you need a U.S. business license, a U.S.
merchant account, a U.S. address, and to provide shipping out of the
U.S.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

xxxxx

Yahoo! Customer Care

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I'm seriously contemplating suing them.

I know that Canada is a US state (or so the US thinks) but Australia and Singapore are Commonwealth.....

Is it that when ousourcing European shopping to a third party they have forgotten to think about internal competition?

It's the best joke I have heard for a long time, just can't laugh about it as we are shipping 1000's worth to the US every month.......

and ....and to provide shipping out of the U.S... ahhh lets ship it to the unsuspecting mass out there but not into our ringfenced domain?


M

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by expat

I'm seriously contemplating suing them.

On what grounds?

- Shawn

[Foxy]

Hey expat

I know that Canada is a US state (or so the US thinks) but Australia and Singapore are Commonwealth..

They are all ex English Empire including the USA!!!!

[leeds1]

Foxy

Google is the same - they wouldnt put me in their shopping mall/ froogle because my prices are not displayed in US$ - go figure

[Foxy]

I know - I've been there asking

Got to sell some Weber BBQs...hehehe

[leeds1]

I saw this on seochat - key your username into google.com for me

[expat]

Y is public listed company thus slightly different rules apply than with your run of the mill private company. There is also the free trade act and the special relationship (UK 54th state of the US?), etc.

If I got the time I will look deeper into this, it's interesting that not many seem to have cottoned on to this yet.
The argument is probably that a public company in the US is proactively denying free trade wheras taking maximum advantage of it, also the European third party acting for Y does not have a problem with listing a US company as long as payment can be taken in £ and advertising is paid for in £.
There are restrictions that Germany would not accept an english page but will accept my company when the pages are run in German dito for France.

So two measures ? I doesn't go down very well using advantages singles sided.

G-F allows listing of products from any real company if prices are in $ and you can ship into the US.

That is not a problem and I can understand that most in the US do not know the actual exchange value of Sterling, Euros, Zloty, etc. (although prices would look ridicoulously cheap)

I have no problems with language restrictions and if forced will gladly translate UK english into US english.
(Running a small translation business as well - small fry)

M

PS As of today it's not very important as Europe now has 455 Mio and is the biggest single trading block divided by a phletora of languages.

[expat]

Originally Posted by foxyweb

They are all ex English Empire including the USA!!!!

Hi Foxy,

exactly and they still think th earth is flat

http://www.atw.co.za/end.html

cheers
M

[Foxy]

Originally Posted by leeds1

I saw this on seochat - key your username into google.com for me

Do you mean key in foxyweb?

what am I supposed to be seeing?

[Foxy]

Originally Posted by expat

Hi Foxy,

exactly and they still think th earth is flat

http://www.atw.co.za/end.html

cheers
M

Thats funny look at this:

Southampton restaurant

Launched Monday 1 page in URL now at 235 for KW phrase!

[expat]

Nice and well done,

here is an accidental lazy man's positioning. Bought into yahoo.co.uk Aol UK and Lycos and some more shopping sites, activated Wednesday.
P9 Google.com on Friday....
"Asthma natural remedy" (The yamoa one via Y shopping)

Ooops... it's also 1 on Aol(UK) Y(UK) and Froogle shopping. Shop is just about ready to take orders but the flanking product pages are still in build mode.

Love it. It's a German company, well, must be efficent - no upfront, it's invoiced, daily updates, answering the phone on third ring and yes they are all knowledgable , .... unbelivable.

M

PS Thats why I'm so p***** off with Y US....
PPS Look but don't click, don't forget I will write your obituary....

[sweetlouise]

that sucks, the same can be said for the late froogle and amazon wont accept applications either.

[Gallito]

Well no way to sue them for their own business choices, but it is still a dumb choice, as is YPN only showing ads to US customers (if they changed this policy they could significantly increase their marketshare in PPC compared to AdSense's current domination).