Do you ever feel that you are invisable?

 

I have just had it!!

Why nowadays when you try to talk (email) entities, like Amazon UK or Applegreen Ireland, or The Oireachtas - you are ignored.

Well not really ignored just treated like a nuisance - who will go away if we ignore them.

I asked a Govt. Minister why Irish people who want to buy my Paperbacks Books MUST get them from Amazon UK, who by the way are operating out of Luxembourg EU, and pay in Sterling. He told me that was Amazon's Business, as to who and where the choose to deal with customers in Ireland.

In the rest of the EU Amazon sell from local marketplaces. Amazon DM, SP, FR, ND, etc..

His Minions also send me an acknowledgement of my email addressed to MR or MS Surname, Not Mr. or Ms. Surname. No Mrs. Scaredy Cats - afraid to address a married woman as Mrs. in case they offend someone or other!

Well anyway - I am of an age where customers were valued and prized. It seems not any more - JUST GIMMIE YER MONEY AND THEN PFO. AND DON'T TRY TO COMPLAIN.

After COVID I am back functioning AGAIN TG.

 I thought I had seen it all!

Apparently not!

This Covid Yoke in Ireland killed a lot of nice, gentle, friends and a lot of others who would perhaps have been new friends.

I am glad it had eased off and hope it is gone, permanently.

I am back blogging to bring some wrongs to light.

First me new paperback Here Lies Deirdre Rachel Eames (hereliesdreams)has been prepared on KDP and published as a Novella.

They tell me it's a cracking galloping page turner. 

Now it is for sale on Amazon.Com, and all over Europe in local markets like Germany, Spain, France, Holland, Portugal...the lot. It's up for sale in Canada, Japan, everywhere in fact. All on the local website markets and in local currencies.

 But not in Ireland. Us poor creatures, in The Replublic of Ireland, who have been divorced  from the UK -it was called the Treaty and caused a Civil War in the year 1922. Have to buy my books from Amazon.Co.UK and pay in Sterling (£).

This is madness since Amazon have offices and staff and warehouses in THE REPUBLIC and get grants from The EU, and a tolerance on Corporation Tax from the Irish Revenue, to keep them going.

DISGRACEFUL!

Fogra: that's a PS As Gaeilge.

A lesson for Amazon:

Ireland consists of 32 counties, six in NI and 26 in ROI.

They can't handel the premises that IF THE CUSTOMER HAS AN ADDRESS IN 1 ANTRIM, 2 DOWN  3 ARMAGH 4 DERRY, 5 TYRONE OR 6 FERMANAGH THEY ARE IN NI-UK - ELSE-  IF  ANOTHER IRISH ADDRESS  IS PICKED UP FOR SHIPMENT  THAT CUSTOMER IS IN THE REPUBLIC.

See I even wrote the FLOW CHART for you.