Originally Posted by VRPdommy

I have not shopped at wal-mart for about 14 -15 years.
Amazon or Walmart have no monopoly on imported trinkets.
I get my imports direct and save 20% or more.
There is no monopoly (yet) to sell online. Alibaba is a good start but there are others.
Many of these co's have folks in the shipping boxes at ports of entry and they ship from inside them so shipping is faily quick.
What bothers me is the fact that I can get item and shipping cheaper shipped in this way than I would pay to ship from sea to sea for just the shipping.
Some deal they have with usps. but not fair to domestic shippers.
First ran into this about 8 years ago and had to do some digging on how they could do it.