May be I'm extremely naive, but . . .

May be I'm extremely naive, but . . .

[Brett 'Volleyball is my game' Kettering]

About this mess of buying software and such at outrageously inflated prices
overseas.  Have the prospective foreign buyers thought of getting ahold of
someone they know and trust in the U.S., having them buy it cheaply here and
ship it to them?  If they are trusted friends it seems that some sort of
payment method, acceptable to both, could be worked out here.  No need to make
a simple problem overly complex.

Brett Kettering

Re: May be I'm extremely naive, but . . .

[David Kassover]

In article <9E10893F111F400A5B@icdc.llnl.gov> KETTERING@SPIKE.llnl.gov (Brett 'Volleyball is my game' Kettering) writes:
|About this mess of buying software and such at outrageously inflated prices
|overseas.  Have the prospective foreign buyers thought of getting ahold of
|someone they know and trust in the U.S., having them buy it cheaply here and
|ship it to them?  If they are trusted friends it seems that some sort of
|payment method, acceptable to both, could be worked out here.

There's a word for that kind of activity.  "Smuggling" comes to
mind.  This is not to say that it doesn't happen, or should or
shouldn't happen.

There are also classes of goods for which the US shipper accepts
responsibility for non-transferance to prohibited countries.

|  No need to make
|a simple problem overly complex.

No, but it's already complex, whether it needs to be or not.  You
may want to think twice before attracting the attention of people
whose job it will be to make your life miserable.
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