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03/27/2003 Archived Entry: "E-Bay store refuses to sell to Canadians, Mexicans, Germans, French..."
What a great business strategy - get rid of 5/6 of your market by not shipping to countries that won't go to war with the US.
This is what the CompAtlanta store says on it's site:
At the present time we will not honor bids from Canada, Mexico, France, Germany or any other country that does not support the United States in our efforts to rid the world of Saddam Hussein.
As well as several Canadian news outlets, the story has been reported by Wired News:
On eBay, the highest bid wins -- unless the item on sale is a laser printer from CompAtlanta and the bidder happens to be Canadian.That's what a tax consultant discovered last week when he tried to buy a printer on eBay, but was refused by the vendor when it was discovered he lived in Vancouver.
I can see consumers boycotting products... but sellers refusing to sell stuff to most of the world? It sounds like shooting yourself in the foot - not - trying to make a political point through economic pressure.