Ever been refused business because your country is 'high risk'?

[jeremy j starche]

We have gotten at the Scottish Tartans Museum numerous emails over the years from people asking if we will ship to a foreign country that we have been 99% certain are from scammers. Two tell-tale signs; 1) they generally are asking to purchase odd items in bulk, sometimes not even items that we carry, and 2) they always want to pay on a credit card, the details of which they promise to email to us once we agree to the order. They never are willing to just place their order through our normal shopping cart system on our web site, which uses PayPal.

I can second that this happens... I've refused orders because I didn't like how they felt, but never just directly from the country of origin.

(For me, they are usually trying to order 10,000 of an item they I /know/ they can get cheaper locally....)