Hi ameoba
Shipto is a mail forwarding service, what I offer is a purchasing service where my agent purchase the goods and ships them to you. There are heaps of mail forwarding services out there, there are two major problem with them:
1. They pop up and go out of business all the time. I have watched quite a few and they follow a very typical life-cycle. The start out small with low fees, build up by word of mouth, grow too big for the person how is running it (these are nearly all hobby businesses), and finally collapse in huge mess. From an outside perspective it is quite interesting to watch, but if you happen to have your goods in transit when things start to go wrong then you are in for a heap of problems.
2. All the services are OS. This means that if anything goes wrong there is very little you can do. I am based in Australia and I guarantee your items will be delivered.
Having said this these service can be OK, just a little more risky
