Define 'Worldwide'...
Nobody knows this except people who've been excluded, but PayPal has finally decided that Egyptians aren't all scammers and added Egypt to the list of people who can have an account. This means that the wonders of ebay are open to me without me having to inveigle friends into buying for them. In any case, I found a posting that was amusing:
Ships to: Worldwide
Excludes: Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Sierra Leone, French Guiana, Anguilla, Gambia, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Malaysia, Mayotte, Cameroon, Guyana, Taiwan, Azerbaijan Republic, Poland, Macau, Suriname, Oman, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Middle East, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Eritrea, Togo, Armenia, Bhutan, Uzbekistan, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Qatar, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Burundi, Slovakia, Iraq, Equatorial Guinea, Slovenia, Thailand, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Aruba, Uruguay, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Western Sahara, Congo, Republic of the, Colombia, Comoros, Estonia, Israel, Kuwait, Benin, Algeria, Montserrat, Korea, South, Zambia, Russian Federation, Somalia, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Italy, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Laos, Niger, Tanzania, Ukraine, Panama, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, Venezuela, Ghana, Reunion, Djibouti, Chile, Puerto Rico, Cape Verde Islands, China, Martinique, Mali, Botswana, Croatia, Republic of, Madagascar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Paraguay, Cayman Islands, Lebanon, Saint Helena, Rwanda, Liberia, Seychelles, Bolivia, Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Libya, Nigeria, Lesotho, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Saint Lucia, Mauritius, Guinea, Bulgaria, Jordan, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Turkmenistan, Romania, Grenada, Costa Rica, Haiti, India, Mexico, Yemen, Afghanistan, Serbia, Africa, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Netherlands Antilles, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Nepal, Bahrain, Bahamas, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Malawi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicaragua, Angola, South America, Tunisia, Uganda, Brazil, Turkey, Barbados, Jamaica, Egypt, Latvia, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Central America and Caribbean, Honduras, Brunei Darussalam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), South Africa
I'm ...impressed.
Ships to: Worldwide
Excludes: Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Sierra Leone, French Guiana, Anguilla, Gambia, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Malaysia, Mayotte, Cameroon, Guyana, Taiwan, Azerbaijan Republic, Poland, Macau, Suriname, Oman, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Middle East, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Eritrea, Togo, Armenia, Bhutan, Uzbekistan, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Qatar, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Burundi, Slovakia, Iraq, Equatorial Guinea, Slovenia, Thailand, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Aruba, Uruguay, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Western Sahara, Congo, Republic of the, Colombia, Comoros, Estonia, Israel, Kuwait, Benin, Algeria, Montserrat, Korea, South, Zambia, Russian Federation, Somalia, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Italy, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Laos, Niger, Tanzania, Ukraine, Panama, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, Venezuela, Ghana, Reunion, Djibouti, Chile, Puerto Rico, Cape Verde Islands, China, Martinique, Mali, Botswana, Croatia, Republic of, Madagascar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Paraguay, Cayman Islands, Lebanon, Saint Helena, Rwanda, Liberia, Seychelles, Bolivia, Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Libya, Nigeria, Lesotho, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Saint Lucia, Mauritius, Guinea, Bulgaria, Jordan, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Turkmenistan, Romania, Grenada, Costa Rica, Haiti, India, Mexico, Yemen, Afghanistan, Serbia, Africa, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Netherlands Antilles, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Nepal, Bahrain, Bahamas, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Malawi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicaragua, Angola, South America, Tunisia, Uganda, Brazil, Turkey, Barbados, Jamaica, Egypt, Latvia, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Central America and Caribbean, Honduras, Brunei Darussalam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), South Africa
I'm ...impressed.