[Curzel]

They did explain their reasoning behind this during WAN a few weeks ago.

In short, they are trying to make shipping price more fair for the average customer (including those oversea, or in remote regions) by making shipping a bit more expensive where it is cheaper.

Charging people nearby a bit extra allows them to offset some of those costs.

They provided a few examples of backpacks shipping to remote regions in Canada (I forgot the name, sorry) custom upwards of hundreds of dollars, but they capped shipping price to 50/60$ for every customer.

Very happy to hear that (I live in Europe), but obviously you're probably not a fan of the idea as much as I am hahaha

[ChuckNorris89]

I also live in Europe and I'd love to buy their merch but the shipping and customs costs add up immensely so there's no way I'm buying anything from them.

[Curzel]

Yeah, but if backpacks ever become available without backorder I might make a single big order next year, who knows!