Do You Ship to Other Countries?
One of my major pet hates when it comes to shopping online is the fact that I have to dig like a gold miner to find out whether or not a small business website ships their goods outside the United States.
I won’t rant about the fact that so many businesses that sell online simply refuse to be part of the global economy - I’m over that … at least I think I am. If you want to open a store in the centre of a major city but only sell to people from just one suburb then that’s up to you. I’m sure you have a valid reason.
But please remember that a lot of your traffic will come from countries outside of the one you might want to sell in. Andit would be really nice to tell those of us from outside your market place that you don’t want to sell to us.
You might even tell us that right on your index page - it wouldn’t be hard - just a few words would save us all the hassle of digging through your site to find out whether or not you ship to 95% of the real world or not.
If you don’t ship to other places and you take the time to tell us - on your front page - you will even save yourself some bandwidth. If we know that you won’t sell to us we won’t go digging through every page to try and find out.
Grrrrrrr.
