Well after 4 of us from Australia waited patiently in line for our number to come up, the seller of these ramps has just dumped our order, deleted my message thread and blocked me from messaging him back, so my only form of response is now this thread.
Initially myself and 3 other guys banded together to place a group order with the seller shortly after orders opened. We hoped that shipping 4 ramps sets in one shipment to Australian would be much cheaper than individually. In addition to having to pay an international shipping fee, there is also an extra 10% gst fee, combined with a much weaker currency exchange rate - all of this resulted in these ramps being quite expensive for us Aussies.
Despite, the ramp price jumping twice since we placed our order, being informed we now also needed to the full Pay Pal fees (via F&F international the buyer pays), and our position in the cue somehow temporally being passed over - we were all still on board, ready to send our money as soon as the ramps were ready providing the shipping cost was reasonable.
As the seller was insistent that he would ONLY ship the ramps via UPS, which even in a smaller box was still very expensive to Australia, we suggested an alternate option where he would ship our box with 4 ramps via the same UPS method he normally uses to a reliable US shipping forwarding service in the US located in Portland Oregon called Shopmate (owned by Australia post who is incredibly reliable). Once delivered to Shopmate the package would have full tracking and insurance - and if anything did go wrong, it would totally be on us (not the seller) which I pointed out to them. All that was needed was a revised UPS shipping cost to ship the package to Portland. Given that most of the sellers other ramp orders have shipped inside the US exactly this same way, I don’t think our request to ship our order this way was unreasonable.
While this may be good news for some of you on the waiting list who are now 4 spots closer, I think choosing to just cancel our order completely and block any communication about this decision is incredibly poor form!