Unfortunately, this is a very common story. The company I work for,
From2 http://www.from2.com/ has developed a solution that's currently only available to e-merchants, but if you were to go to one of our Powered by From2 clients, such as http://www.tigerexport.com/ you could purchase items and have them delivered to virtually anywhere - sorry Pavel, not Russia yet, and we haven't covered every square inch of the rest of the globe yet, but we're working on it. Shipping anything internationally can be very difficult, and one of the most difficult aspects is knowing what it will cost, ahead of time, in taxes, duties, customs charges and the like -- this is even more difficult because some countries tax the freight charges as well. We make it possible by maintaining a global network of experts, and a web-based application we call the Global Delivered Cost Calculator that lets us quote door-to- door delivered costs anywhere in the world. We have to know quite a bit about the merchandise to do this, where it was made, what materials, etc, so there is overhead involved, but very soon merchants using our system will be able to conduct business anywhere in the world. For Pavel's specific difficulty, try tigerexport - they might just be able to help you, or contact a local freight forwarder, who should be able to get the goods there for you, but for small quantities of merchandise, it won't be cheap.
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Unfortunately, this is a very common story. The company I work for, From2 http://www.from2.com/ has developed a solution that's currently only available to e-merchants, but if you were to go to one of our Powered by From2 clients, such as http://www.tigerexport.com/ you could purchase items and have them delivered to virtually anywhere - sorry Pavel, not Russia yet, and we haven't covered every square inch of the rest of the globe yet, but we're working on it. Shipping anything internationally can be very difficult, and one of the most difficult aspects is knowing what it will cost, ahead of time, in taxes, duties, customs charges and the like -- this is even more difficult because some countries tax the freight charges as well. We make it possible by maintaining a global network of experts, and a web-based application we call the Global Delivered Cost Calculator that lets us quote door-to- door delivered costs anywhere in the world. We have to know quite a bit about the merchandise to do this, where it was made, what materials, etc, so there is overhead involved, but very soon merchants using our system will be able to conduct business anywhere in the world. For Pavel's specific difficulty, try tigerexport - they might just be able to help you, or contact a local freight forwarder, who should be able to get the goods there for you, but for small quantities of merchandise, it won't be cheap.