Julian Stevens

I reckon the reason amazon.com has hiked its shipping rates is to deter overseas customers from buying items at lower cost than via their home country amazon site. Many titles listed at amazon.co.uk can be found at much lower cost on amazon.com. Even with shipping at $6.95, as it used to be, it was cheaper to buy via the latter but shipping at $14.95 completely negates this. I've recently bought a couple of items from Japan via eBay and the shipping was only $5.00. Go figure.