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The last two Moleskine notebooks I've bought (5x8.25 black hardcover) have been through Amazon.  The first of the two was great with none of the fountain pen bleed through problems I've heard discussed here.  It was made in China and shipped from somewhere in the US to me (in the US).  The second, I received today.  It made in Turkey and was shipped directly from the UK and arrived in a flat cardboard envelope with its spine smashed.  As far as I've been able to determine, all Moleskine notebooks sold by Amazon originate in the UK.

 

Why is Amazon taking this weird approach with distributing Moleskine notebooks?

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Amazon.com would not ship you a Moleskine from one of its warehouses in the UK, unless you picked (or accepted whatever was thrown as the default option by algorithm at the time) an option where the seller is Amazon UK and not Amazon (US).

 

I could be buying a notebook, pen, whatever from Amazon.com.au, and when I look through the list of buying options, there could be differently-priced entries for which the sellers are Amazon AU, Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, and Amazon Japan respectively.

 

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It might be a price thing. Sometimes I've noticed that some products come from one place and others from another, and I suspect (for I like to monitor several Amazon sites and compare, there are surprises) it is that when one shop is wanting to get rid of a product, they will offer it elsewhere and mail it.

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59 minutes ago, txomsy said:

It might be a price thing.

 

It is a price thing, in that if there are multiple sellers for the same item on Amazon.com, by default the one with the lowest price for one unit with Prime shipping will get presented. Just now, for the Moleskine notebook described, it happened to be clearly UK stock to be shipped from the UK.

 

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and Amazon.com (or Amazon US) itself does not appear in the list of sellers for it at all, when one examines it more closely.

 

For the sapphire blue version of the product, Amazon.com does appear as a seller in the list… in fifth place, including the seller selected by default.

 

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So, it's really up to the customer to select which to Add to Cart and take through to checkout; and there should be no surprises as to from where the item ultimately delivered for the order was shipped.

 

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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