Refused orders: US Department of Commerce E-Retail
1 Ecommerce orders (Cybersource 06/2004) Among medium and large online merchants, 41% do not accept overseas orders, with the biggest obstacle being fear of fraud. Fraud rates on overseas orders are four times the level of North American orders. Cybersource 06/2004 (Include small traders and this rises VERY fast above 50%)
2 Logistics in place (Accenture 2005)
Only slightly more than half of companies have logistics partnerships in place that deliver a global footprint…
3 Revenue earnings (Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations 2002) U.S. companies are not as global as the global sample of firms. For instance, global sample firms earn 12% of total sales from abroad, compared to 5% for U.S. firms,: In the same global survey (300 companies in US, 200 per other 9 countries surveyed) 9% of online US firms said international sales increased V 19% of the non US online companies.
Sorry it is late but you might pass it on to the people who argued with you as a follow up.
I would also have to say that in E-REVENUE terms the companies that do take orders online are big earners and represent a very big proportion of overall Ecommerce revenues. However international revenues remains small EXCEPT for highly export oriented or digital product suppliers.
