I have to say, I considered it. But 3 things stopped me:
1) It has to be relatively expensive (to cover shipping and profit), so the candy would have to be both good and interesting to justify the cost, and my experience has been that foreign foods are very hit-and-miss.
2) I have an asian supermarket near me in Orlando, FL that carries a lot of candies and drinks.
3) The picture showed Pocky as one of the 2 products that went into that order. I can buy Pocky at Walmart (and the asian store mentioned above), so I would feel like I really wasted my money if that was in an order. And pretty much anything else I can buy at the Asian store. He has no way to know what I could buy locally, so I'd always be taking a chance that I'm paying way too much for something.
However, if the system was changed so that I can pick the candies from a selection, that might be more interesting. It's quickly approaching a standard storefront at that point, though.
Yes, there are definitely many people in your situation, and you will probably be better off visiting their local stores. They can import in bulk and can provide a good selection, it clearly is superior to sending random things from abroad individually.
Many places do not have such stores though, for example as far as I know in Finland there is just one such store in the whole country. I believe there are still customers left for this service as well.
If this turns out to be an unnecessary service, I would be open to accept that result too. I still feel I would be better off having started this experiment, I am learning much about how to approach bloggers, how to interface with PayPal and my new label printer and so on. Nice learning experience in any case.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you quit. I was just listing my reasons so you knew what you were up against. If you don't know why people aren't subscribing, it's hard to widen your customer base.
1) It has to be relatively expensive (to cover shipping and profit), so the candy would have to be both good and interesting to justify the cost, and my experience has been that foreign foods are very hit-and-miss.
2) I have an asian supermarket near me in Orlando, FL that carries a lot of candies and drinks.
3) The picture showed Pocky as one of the 2 products that went into that order. I can buy Pocky at Walmart (and the asian store mentioned above), so I would feel like I really wasted my money if that was in an order. And pretty much anything else I can buy at the Asian store. He has no way to know what I could buy locally, so I'd always be taking a chance that I'm paying way too much for something.
However, if the system was changed so that I can pick the candies from a selection, that might be more interesting. It's quickly approaching a standard storefront at that point, though.