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Sounds like you don't know how international trade works. A company like Framework can't ship to countries they don't normally ship to not because of cost but because of taxes, embargoes, laws, tariffs, and more. It isn't just about cost, it is about complying with laws. The countries they ship to they already know the laws. Any new county has to go through a long and painful process of learning local laws to make sure you are in compliance.
I'm privileged as an American to get almost everything I want, I get that, but you can't blame a company for choosing to spend its legal resources where they are most impactful.
Bullshit. I asked them to take my payment and throw a laptop in the mail like some ordinary shmuck I would have bought a laptop privately from. I live in a Scandinavian country, not in Mumbo-Jumbo land. The parcel will arrive. I'll take care of import duties and everything: all they have to do is package the laptop, put a sticker with my address on it, drive to the post office and forget about it. I even offered to pay them extra for the aggravation. They refused.
It's not about the money, it's about the legal process
If you want one that badly buy a new unopened one on eBay