Should I ban customers from Antarctica?

9 years ago

Why on earth would you not sell to every country that could give you money? If someone gives me money, I take it. Mad not to isn't it?

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kindsvater 9 years ago

Originally Posted by PBScott

Why on earth would you not sell to every country that could give you money? If someone gives me money, I take it. Mad not to isn't it?

1. The laws of your country may prohibit software or certain products from being sold to specific countries.

2. Some countries you will not be targeting for sales.

3. Some countries are, frankly, bastions of fraud. But hey, if you like your PayPal account getting bombed with disputes and complaints from stolen IDs, being ripped-off, and seeing a hundred refund requests for every legitimate sale - by all means go for that one legit sale.

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Jeff Lenney 9 years ago

Originally Posted by PBScott

Why on earth would you not sell to every country that could give you money? If someone gives me money, I take it. Mad not to isn't it?

People from Antarctica aren't exactly 1st world. The few I HAVE encountered from there, to be honest, have been a bit cold...

Not saying they're ALL like that, but it's not been a very...warming experience so for me so far with their 2nd rate citizens.
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9 years ago

I don't think it's necessary to block people from Antarctica from buying your product as I think the fraud rate is low but I do think you should look at countries with high fraud rates or places where it maybe illegal to sell your product and consider whether buyers from these countries should be blocked

but I have to ask what are you selling kindsvater

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rts2271 9 years ago

He's selling lifesize penguins made out of crack
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- Olavski 9 years ago
  
  I tried selling ice to people from antarctica, Greenland and the North Pole. Didn't work out that well...
  
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- Michael Fuentes 9 years ago
  
  SOURCE: Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  Antarctica
  TLD: .aq
  POPULATION: 0 permanent residents (2014) ~ 5,000 temporary residents
  
  • There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scattered across the continent...
  
  • Only cold-adapted organisms survive, including many types of algae, bacteria, fungi, plants, protista, and certain animals, such as mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades...
  
  • The Antarctic Treaty prohibits military activities and mineral mining, prohibits nuclear explosions and nuclear waste disposal, supports scientific research, and protects the continent's ecozone...
  
  • Ongoing experiments are conducted by more than 4,000 scientists from many nations...
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greenowl123

9 years ago

I will not attempt to answer your question, but I would ask you a couple of questions which come to my mind (partly due to my own ignorance about Antarctica) :

1. Are there actually people living in Antarctica ? If yes, is the population there large enough to even be concerned about ?

2. Do most of the people in Antarctica (the small population which may or may not actually live down there freezing their popsicles off) even have reliable internet service ?

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MarkAse

9 years ago

I do know if you visit, you collect everything that you brought with, including urine....that all has to go back with you.

Lots of scientists down there normally right?

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Michael Fuentes 9 years ago

Originally Posted by MarkAse

I do know if you visit, you collect everything that you brought with, including urine....that all has to go back with you.

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lunaBEAM

9 years ago

Yeah, what's your logic behind banning North Korea?
Just because you have that feature... use it?

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Kay King 9 years ago

logic behind banning North Korea

I wouldn't think any explanation would be necessary for that one.

As for Antarctica, kind of a sparse market and a bit item specific I would think. Hand warmers and parkas might work - swimsuits and ice makers not so much. Delivery costs can be a problem....
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butters

9 years ago

Polar bears are notorious serial refunders!!

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Jeff Lenney

9 years ago

This is a really mind baffling to me… Are you guys that dense? This is clearly sarcasm. Antartica is a giant iceberg Covered in penguins and polar bears, North Korea has about 100 people on the Internet, mostly high-ranking government officials. I seriously doubt any of them are looking at the latest Internet marketing launches

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butters

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jeff Lenney

This is a really mind baffling to me... Are you guys that dense? This is clearly sarcasm. Antartica is a giant iceberg Covered in penguins and polar bears, North Korea has about 100 people on the Internet, mostly high-ranking government officials. I seriously doubt any of them are looking at the latest Internet marketing launches

Dunno, a recent film based on what is surely fact "The Interview" would say they probably are

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Assetus

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jeff Lenney

This is a really mind baffling to me... Are you guys that dense? This is clearly sarcasm. Antartica is a giant iceberg Covered in penguins and polar bears, North Korea has about 100 people on the Internet, mostly high-ranking government officials. I seriously doubt any of them are looking at the latest Internet marketing launches

While you correctly detected the sarcasm, Antarctica is actually mostly land with an ice covering, not an iceberg and has no polar bears.

The North Pole/Arctic region seems to be what you're thinking of.

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kindsvater 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jeff Lenney

Antartica is a giant iceberg Covered in penguins and polar bears

There are no polar bears in Antarctica.

I should offer a reward to the first person to buy one of my products from an Antarctica IP address.

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- Jeff Lenney 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kindsvater
  
  There are no polar bears in Antarctica.
  
  I should offer a reward to the first person to buy one of my products from an Antarctica IP address.
  
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  Nah I know, just expanding on my sarcasm
  
  Actually, the Audio/Video guy who records the webinars I do always offers a prize for the first person to call in from Antarctica, or a submarine LOL
  
  Hasn't happened yet, needless to say
  
  I DID do one of my webinars FROM a cruise ship in the caribbean once, which was kinda fun - but costly for the bandwidth
  
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salegurus

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jeff Lenney

This is a really mind baffling to me... Are you guys that dense? This is clearly sarcasm. Antartica is a giant iceberg Covered in penguins and polar bears, North Korea has about 100 people on the Internet, mostly high-ranking government officials. I seriously doubt any of them are looking at the latest Internet marketing launches

Unfortunately there are people who are "that dense", having a brain is not a prerequisite to joining WF....

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Tim_Carter

9 years ago

The permanent residents there are penguins. They don't have jobs or money, or internet access for that matter. So ban them or not; it makes no difference.

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greenowl123

9 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

JVZoo has a cool new feature where you can ban buyers based on country. One of the countries listed is Antarctica

Has anyone had any fraud issues with Antarctica buyers? Anyone live there?

Sorry, but if you're in North Korea I just banned your butt.

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Ok, just realized this is sarcasm.

I gave a sincere reply earlier today. Ya Got Me !

In my defense, I have had insomnia the past 2 or 3 nights.

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regulardan

9 years ago

Who the HECK lives down there???? lol

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WritingKings

9 years ago

I heard it costs around $15,000 just to touch Antartica's soil. A few people have told me that. Absolutely insane

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Joseph Then 9 years ago

Originally Posted by WritingKings

I heard it costs around $15,000 just to touch Antartica's soil. A few people have told me that. Absolutely insane

Now that's a WSO idea.
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RealCasher

9 years ago

Don't ban it man, alot of penguins gonna buy your awesome product, and humans? no i don't think so

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Slade556

9 years ago

I don't know if banning an entire country is a good idea. Especially Antarctica! Besides, I have never heard anything bad related to Antarctica and the IM world.

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onkelkeith

9 years ago

Bad idea , Why would you ban customers from North Korea ? have never heard them involving in fraud or anything .

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adenclark

9 years ago

People who are cold need stuff too. Hahahaha. Sorry, just amusing myself here.

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HelpingYouBeAnExpert

9 years ago

Most people on Antartica are America Citizens (McMurdo Navy Station for example and a few smaller). Also from a few other countries all first world. They all have government pay so you don't have to ban them just verify and you are all set.

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ClickBank

9 years ago

This is an interesting thread so I did a bit of research for historical sales here at ClickBank. We have had a number of sales from Antartica over the years. If you do decide you want to target that market, you should focus on two categories: (1) Software technology products and (2) dating products.

And before the question comes in, no I am not kidding and the sales are in the thousands of dollars.

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discrat 9 years ago

I think the term you use is not quite appropriate and misused here. You are NOT really banning anyone and it is very derogatory in a sense. Hence, some of the responses in here.

I think it might be better to say that you are just not doing any Marketing in some areas of the World.

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talfighel

9 years ago

I think that once you get a few customers from there and they all ask for a refund, then you should ban them.

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Robert Puddy

9 years ago

I would think that antarticans would be better prospects if you cold called them, and even then you would have to warm up the list for at least 3 months before you saw any action from them