Does adding my location decrease sales in my case

[Mentalhealthdress]

Hi I am based in South Africa and my business model is print on demand. My print provider ships most of my products from North Carolina and a few items from China. I do not want to sell to my country. In fact only about 1% of the people in my country can actually afford to buy something just because they like it. I want to target the USA as much as possible. Would the system have issues if my business address is on as South Africa but I list my business as under my name as USA. 

The biggest reason that I do not want to sell to my country is that customers from my country if they did buy would not be able to receive their parcel due to courier service vehicles being hijacked and an inefficient postal service. 

Please could you guys advise. 

Thanks 

[CraftyCornishMaids]

In location, you gave to put in your location, if you put in a different one, then people can claim not as described.

In your "ships from" on your shipping profile, you have to put where you ship from, so China or USA, depending where that item comes from.

You only have to ship to the country you ship from, so if you don't want to ship to your own country, then don't have it in your "ship to" countrys' list

[TheVintagePineapple]

No, your actual location on your shop front should be South Africa.  Putting it as simply ''USA'' is deceptive, especially when US sellers typically use their real city and state names as their location.  Using USA does not increase sales from the US either.

[CappuccinoLace]

You cannot deselect your own country. 

Yes you can.

If the ships from country isn't your own, then "domestic" shipping isn't your country, and you can chose not to add it as an international shipping location. (obviously would be if you used everywhere else though)

[CraftyCornishMaids]

@TheVintagePineapple 

You only have to ship to the country you ship from,

so the ones that ship from China, have to ship to China

and the ones that ship from USA, have to ship to USA,

Unless they ship from South Africa, they don't have to sell there

[TheVintagePineapple]

@CappuccinoLace and @CraftyCornishMaids 

Yes, I realized that as soon as I hit reply and have edited it out.   I overlooked the fact that the seller uses POD companies.

[CappuccinoLace]

@TheVintagePineapple  ha, we're just too fast this morning.

[TheVintagePineapple]

@CappuccinoLace  It was my own fault!  It's almost 3 am here and I tend to type first, think later at this time of night.