I've been chatting with a 3dprinting user who is in Samoa. Anything he orders costs 2-3x more in freight, and there's a high theft rate. So that he gets an item in his hands is not guaranteed. If that item is faulty, there's little point sending it back so fixing is the order of the day.
He has rolls of "cheap" filament that should be 1.75mm in diameter, but in sections its too thin, so print jobs get starved of plastic.
He ended up unspooling the plastic and cutting out those thin bits, then heat-splicing the good bits together. Wastes around half the material, but he's got something …