Proxys or borderless consumption – Liberation

He is so cute, snoopy, in his train driver uniform. At the end of March, an American surfer asked for help on the Reddit community site to obtain a keychain with the effigy of the famous comic strip, in collaboration with the Saitama rail museum. A limited edition, available only in Japan. Impossible for him to order it from the United States. Luckily, a user offers to give him a helping hand. For connoisseurs, it’s called « doing the proxy ». A pair of pumps available across the Atlantic gives you the eye but no store delivers in Europe? Just come across a goodwill intermediary.

If the idea is not new, it has changed over the past ten years as e-commerce fever earned the whole world. Zenmarket, Buyee, Shipito, BlackShip … We no longer count the number of dedicated platforms, free from the limits of world trade. No need to go and beg help on obscure forums. These companies are responsible for ordering, delivering, storing or even negotiating your precious finds for you, by means of a commission.

Hippolyte is one of those followers of purchase without borders. The nurse in his thirties, installed near Toulouse, is a great Japanese fashion lover. But there are no specialized stores near his home. So he found the parade: « I ordered parts on Buyee on Buyee