Ah yes. Me. My country. And the usual +50 USD international shipping fee I have to face.

I just wanted to buy some damn pens and accessories.

This hurts me physically

international shipping went up so much this year

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 : Every time I talk about shipping fees and explain what I usually face, I have so many friends in more reasonable places recoil in horror.

ʙᴜʀᴇᴀᴜᴄʀᴀᴄʏ : Right?? Combined with the apparent 4% fee cut PayPal takes for transactions.... It cuts deep......

I know they can be bad but this seems so extreme!! It should be cheaper by now in general but I know that’s not how capitalism works

I want to support a lot of my friends and fave artists through Etsy but it’s so expensive I honestly had to stop

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 : I'm in the Philippines where we're basically..... the dark zone, apparently, with how shipping fees work. The worst part is even if I pay this amount, I know darn well I won't get it in 7 business days. I'm lucky to get it within two - three months at the earliest since this is from the U.S.

ʙᴜʀᴇᴀᴜᴄʀᴀᴄʏ : Same. I ended up opting to either leave Ko-Fi when I can afford it or hype them the heck out when they promote their stores or commissions by showing off my stuff in the past.

god and i thought the aud shipping price spike was bad

i am. so sorry,

Yeah, it takes a while for things to get to Japan too... Not as long as you but like.. an extra week...

So I’m paying for this ~express service~ that doesn’t even get in the time it says it will lol

IT DEFINITELY WENT UP THIS YEAR THO AND IM LIKE UGH.......

💀💀💀 : Shipping price spiked for everyone, I think, when the realisation of, 'Oh things won't be going back to normal soon' hit Capitalism and it went, 'Hell yeah we'll take advantage of it.'

ʙᴜʀᴇᴀᴜᴄʀᴀᴄʏ : I can't believe I'm using paying just +20 - +30 USD for shipping now. At least that was ''''reasonable'''' to whatever the heck is happening here. :'>