Quote from: enddox on February 19, 2012, 03:33 amI am gonna jump in on this one.Although I have yet to have a visit from the LEO's I have been caught out by vendors listing their source country on SR and then finding out that the product has actually been drop-shipped from a red flag country. This has to STOP!!This puts the buyer at so much risk and goes back to what I have been saying for almost my entire time on SR that buyers NEED protection. This is a two-way street.What's the phrase they use in the real world - 'truth in advertising' - it applies here as much as it does anywhere (perhaps even more).I have made no secret that I am from Australia and perhaps sometimes I give a little too much info but it is all to help my fellow countrymen. Like most western countries there are a list of countries which ring alarm bells for our customs service. It's sad but it is the state of the world we live in. If vendors want to do well both financially and morally then buyers have to know what they are getting into when making an order.If vendors feel uncomfortable about publically listing their true sources then at least could they let the buyer know after making an order where the product will be shipped from and of course give the buyer the opportunity to cancel without incurring a penalty if they find out that the true source is a country of concern?I agree completely, but country of origin is very hard for vendors to give up. Naturally we want LEO to be searching through the Universal Set i.e. the planet, instead of our particular subset/country. While for a country like USA with a large population it makes relatively little odds, it's uncomfortable for those vendors in smaller ones. Thing is, with a country large enough, LEO starts using From/To States to configure their package profiling. Now, do we really want Americans having to declare what State they are from?Similarly, a German or Norwegian vendor would want to be classified as 'Europe' rather than a specific country. That would be more analogous to the country wide anonymity our American colleagues have.On the other hand, as a Buyer, I would want to ensure I don't buy directly from red flag countries. Thus giving those in red flag countries an incentive to lie, or add to their expenses by setting up anonymous proxy re-mailers as some in the Netherlands have been doing.It seems like a somewhat intractable problem. More Buyer security vs More Seller security. I can only think that having a professional trusted remailer service for countries like India, China, Netherlands, and this to be made mandatory. Seems like there should be another way somehow.