Strangest Place

New Zealand is about as strange as it gets for me - they're a weird mob!

I won't sell to anywhere south of the USA border or the Mediterranean sea, or east of Germany, on principle.

I nearly did buy from Khazakstan once and have bought from Belarus.

GG

Heavy Metal or no metal at all!

I've only ever bought from USA. I've sold/shipped to Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, & Australia. My listings indicate I ship only to USA, Canada, Europe, & Australia. I also block bidders not from those countries.

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I nearly did buy from Khazakstan once and have bought from Belarus.

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"...nearly..."?!? What happened? Where is Belarus?

When I sold scooter parts, I sold to Asian countries a lot. I have sold all over Europe and Australia. I have never sold to anywhere in Africa.

Khazakstan seller insisted on US$, concealed in a tin under registered post. I politely declined to do business.

Belarus is part of Russia - the city was Minsk. The item was a Manowar CD. The package came wrapped in heavy brown recycled paper tied with rough string and sealed with wax! I kid you not!

GG

Heavy Metal or no metal at all!

The U.S. has to be the strangest place on Earth. I’m not ruling out that there aren’t stranger places on other planets.

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Where is Belarus?

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Belarus is a very large country, sort of between Ukraine and Russia!
In the USSR days, was called 'White Russia'

www.titsey.com - nice place, strange name!

R2

Wow, GG! That is pretty neat!

I've bought from RUS, AU, NZ, Sing, GB, and even Texas! I'm addicted to snipe and use it primarily. I still have to forward the website to f&f for the free snipes.

By your ID, my intuition tells me you’re a guy that likes to snipe instead of a married gal that likes to nipe (and not married to a Mr. Nipe with a household of little Nipes).

Mrsnipe, what??

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I still have to forward the website to f&f for the free snipes.

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Mrsnipe, I'm not sure that Texas counts as another country, regardless of what the people there might think.

I'm strictly a buyer, and the only places outside the US that I've bought from are (from most to least) the UK, Canada, Australia, and Belgium. How strange they are probably depends on your point of view.

Texas *does* qualify as a “place”. Can’t comment about its/their degree of strangeness. Places might be described as exotic. It takes people to provide the strangeness.

mrsnipe’s avatar causes me to think he’s made a funny. Texas is a pretty big place after all.

By mistake, I bought an ink well and dip pen from a person in Sofia, Bulgaria. A mistake only in that I failed to notice the address was foreign. Not a mistake in that communication was excellent, items were described accurately, timely shipment, accepted Paypal, well packaged....in fact, everything went extremely well.....which is more than I can say for some of my purchases in Florida and New York. Texas is by far the best....everyone is honorable!

Oh no, DipPenMan, I just moved from Florida...I do hope I am more honorable now that I live in NC!!

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Texas is by far the best....everyone is honorable!

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Ebay buyers & sellers may be honorable but don't ever get a speeding ticket there. The judge returned my check and requested cash or a money order. He got neither.

OMG! Jake, if you go back there, they'll be'a await'n on ya!

I haven't been back and don't plan on it. Besides, like I've always said, Texas is God's country, no one would want it except God.

And even he wouldn't live there!

A Texan and an Englishman were flying over Texas and the Texan said "Y'know, the whole of li'l 'ol England would fit in one tiny corner o' Texas?"

"Yes" replied the Englishman, casting an unimpressed eye over the desert below, "and wouldn't it do wonders for the place!"

GG

Heavy Metal or no metal at all!

Amen to that GG. I'll be sure to tell that to my friend from Houston.

I went to the US once a few years ago to visit relatives. We stayed in Houston, Texas. Travelled across the state to see the Alamo and then went on to New Mexico to visit other members of the family.
It was the best holiday I ever had, the people we met and the weather were absolutely fantastic.
I would go again, but I'm damned if I'm going to let them scan my iris!

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Originally posted by Peterborough:

I'm damned if I'm going to let them scan my iris!

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Whack in coloured contact lenses - that'll fool 'em!

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Just adding a Texan joke.
My cousin moved from Scotland to Texas when she was very young, but spent a year back in Britain while she was about 16. During that visit she went sailing at a local gravel pit. An instructor asked her how she enjoyed it.
She said, "It's fun, but the lake is a bit small."
The instructor asked, "Oh, where do you usually sail?"
"The Gulf of Mexico!"