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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
Do you know anyone through gaming or other online activities that you would trust enough to get one and send to you and just reimburse them or send them the money up front? .
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Thanks Ripplinger for your actually-useful response
As it turns out someone earlier was kind enough to point out the existence of 'freight forwarding companies' which I did not know existed.
Seems their whole thing is to help in similar situations.
The Freight Forwarder (FF) gives you a US/UK/whatever address for the seller to ship to.
It goes to the FF's own warehouse in that country.
Then they ship it to you.
All for a fee of course, but its quite reasonable.
Turns out that the earlier-mentioned VPost service in Singapore might be a reputable one, since Australia Post used them to run their own FF company...