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[–] cosmicrookie 23 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Dude... I've spent way too long creating an account, verifying my mail accepting conditions finding products and trying to understand the German text and then at checkout I get

Lieferungen in das europäische Ausland sind nicht möglich. Bitte wähle eine gültige Lieferanschrift.

(Deliveries to other European countries are not possible. Please select a valid delivery address.)

[–] vcdeadpeople 3 points 4 hours ago

You are Right, I remembered that wrong. My apologies! Sorry you wasted time 🙁

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Beh.. that sucks hard.

When I buy from shops abroad it is the first info I search. It is awful if that info is basically hidden deep under 1000 links.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As a workaround you probably could use a parcel forwarding service:

https://www.forward2me.com/

https://shipgerman.com/en/

https://www.no-border.eu/

I have no experience with these providers, but I've used similar services in the past and had good experiences for the most part.

But yeah, it really sucks that they aren't able to ship to other EU countries, while other shops can.

[–] cosmicrookie 1 points 2 hours ago

It is what it is... But when someone posts a link to them and said that they ship worldwide, i get frustrated to find out that they dont even ship internationaly