Amazon - No Longer Shipping All Products to Freight Forwarders !

Lwazzac on 05/12/2016 - 07:23

Hi All

I have regularly been using a freight forwarding / consolidation service in the US for a number of years without any issues from retailers or the forwarding service.

I was stunned last night when going through the Amazon checkout process to find that Amazon would not ship half the items in my cart to my freight forwarder address.

It looks like they are now assuming that items going to a freight forwarder are going to be exported from the US and so any items tagged not for export (to any country, not just Australia?) are unable to be shipped to known freight forwarding addresses.

This was very disappointing ! Has anyone else come accross this yet …. Or importantly, has anyone found a workaround?

Cheers

Wazza

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  • Geewhizz on 05/12/2016 - 07:33

    Use a different freight forwarder. I think you'd find US to Oz will still work for you because it's a home address.

  • holdenmg on 05/12/2016 - 07:34

    Hmm, this is concerning…

    How do they know people ordering are not "locals" just using an address to consolidate and forward within the U.S.A.

    I usually use Shipito.com, was it a Shipito address they did this to?

    Might have to look at another forwarder or service, maybe http://www.priceusa.com.au/

    • wazzac on 05/12/2016 - 07:44

      Yes, I tried my LA and Oregon shipito addresses and neither worked.

      • holdenmg on 05/12/2016 - 07:53

        Try the Nevada address,

        2220 Meridian Blvd
        Suite #XXXXX
        Minden, NV, 89423
        USA

    • tomsco on 05/12/2016 - 08:47

      How do they know people ordering are not "locals" just using an address to consolidate and forward within the U.S.A.

      Out of interest, what do you mean by this (genuine question)?

      The only reason I could think of US residents using a forwarding service is to try and get out of state sales tax.

      • holdenmg on 05/12/2016 - 11:46
        +1

        Sometimes locals ordering from Amazon find the attempts by Amazon to "ship together where possible" leave a lot to be desired, thus consolidation.

        Customers also buy rom Amazon then have the parcel split to different (friends, relatives) destinations or sometimes people are on the move (Motorhome) and don't have a fixed address. USPS has a service but there is paperwork and weĺl it is unreliable at times.

        Less and less states with Tax Free status now, then there is the whole lowering the threshold here.

        • tomsco on 05/12/2016 - 11:47
          +1

          Thanks for the response.

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