Hi,

This came up on another board that I check. A poster received this response from a largish-scale eBay seller when asking about Star Wars and Marvel Legends type figures. I thought it might also have implications for the people here.

That's if its true. It's important to note this is only one response from one seller and they may not even have the facts straight from Hasbro. It's difficult to tell. I just know that Playmates started doing something similar last year with big online retailers such as BBTS.

In any case, here's the troubling text verbatim...

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Sadly, Hasbro is no longer allowing US sellers to ship their product
overseas so you will not be able to see any of our Hasbro product
going forward. If you want us to send you Hasbro product, you have to
visit the US Ebay site to view our Hasbro offerings, then have your
item shipped to a friend in the US. I understand that this is a very
unreasonable expectation, but sadly, it is the only solution we are
left with. As you can imagine, we are pretty upset about it as it
represents about 20% of our total sales. You will find other sellers
who have decided to simply ignore this rule at their own risk. Hasbro
has threatened to pull the account of anyone attempting to sell
overseas. We can not risk our account being pulled so we have had
decided to abide by their policy. We are urging them to reconsider and
are trying to find a legal way around the policy.

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-awe