{"id":15495,"date":"2023-11-30T00:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=15495"},"modified":"2023-11-30T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:07:49","slug":"why-i-almost-smited-all-eu-countries-in-my-shopping-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-i-almost-smited-all-eu-countries-in-my-shopping-cart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I almost smited all EU countries in my shopping cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you a story.<\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago my favorite news source ZeroHedge tweeted about how Elon Musk internally discussed blocking Twitter access in the EU. And I then quote tweeted it, talking about how I have, several times over the years, toyed with banning all EU countries from my shopping cart.<\/p>\n<p>To which I was asked why I would do that by one of my loyal EU customers.<\/p>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<p>Because almost all the problems with delivery\u2026 flakey \u201cdigital nomads\u201d not keeping me up-to-date on their addresses as they flit from place to place\u2026 snobby entitlement attitudes\u2026 outright crooked customs agents\u2026 crazy invoicing demands (instead of just creating a template and pasting their receipt info in they want me to custom craft a unique invoice just for lil\u2019 ol\u2019 them each month \u2014 no\u2026)\u2026 etc are primarily from my EU customers.<\/p>\n<p>France and Spain are probably the worst culprits.<\/p>\n<p>But it ain\u2019t just them \u2014 I\u2019ve noticed it amongst several of them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pattern that repeats itself every single month.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, I have considered just banning all of the EU whole cloth.<\/p>\n<p>But I have not been able to do so.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason why I have not been able to do so is because unlike Abraham who couldn\u2019t find even one righteous person to justify to God why He shouldn\u2019t smite Sodom &amp; Gomorrah\u2026 I have way too many great customers in the EU who are not problem customers (just the opposite \u2014 total \u201csalt of the earth\u201d customers) and am not going to smite them for the sins of a few low class jackass bums who I simply find easier to eject and ban as they rear their fugly heads.<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t matter to any non-EU boys &amp; ghouls reading this.<\/p>\n<p>But there it is anyway.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about Email Players go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you a story. A couple months ago my favorite news source ZeroHedge tweeted about how Elon Musk internally discussed blocking Twitter access in the EU. And I then quote tweeted it, talking about how I have, several times over the years, toyed with banning all EU countries from my shopping cart. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-inner-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15506,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495\/revisions\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}