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I found this, now ended, listing that I was interested in, and also noticed the seller would ship worldwide.
After checking a bit, I could not find the shipping cost to Norway, and then I noticed the "Exclusions" link...

This is the listing:


And this is the Exclusion list, to be excluded from "worldwide"

Africa, Central America and Caribbean, Middle East, South America, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Armenia, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Japan, Korea, South, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan Republic, Pakistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Andorra, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Croatia, Republic of, Estonia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Jersey, Portugal, Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Monaco, Serbia, Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, Vatican City State, Bulgaria, Sweden, Moldova, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Malta, Iceland, Cyprus, Norway, Romania, San Marino, Greece, Hungary, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Bermuda, Mexico, Greenland, Western Samoa, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Palau, American Samoa, Wallis and Futuna, Micronesia, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Guam, Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu, Niue, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Macau

He he, not much left then...

I ordered parts from EBay, from a Hong Kong company. It took 8 days to arrive. Ordered from another Hong Kong company that offered worldwide shipping. And believe it or not, South Africa was the only exclusion. I didn't know we were not part of the world.

Louisbaby wrote:

I ordered parts from EBay, from a Hong Kong company. It took 8 days to arrive. Ordered from another Hong Kong company that offered worldwide shipping. And believe it or not, South Africa was the only exclusion. I didn't know we were not part of the world.

RSA does have a reputation for postal "irregularities" ... for instance, I guess the package I sent you by air mail on the 12th of March never arrived?

Not yet, but there willbe at least 3 weeks between countries...

Mail from the UK sometimes takes so long I could easily swim back and forth...
And even have a few weeks holiday there in between.

Louisbaby wrote:

Not yet, but there willbe at least 3 weeks between countries...

It was supposed to be a five (working) day service ... going the other way, the bits you sent me arrived in a week

Look what arrived today:




JR you are such a legend. Your build quality is superb. They really look like shop produced items, not home made. The photo's you posted on your thread doesn't do them justice.

Thanks a lot dude, I owe you one.