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| Thread ID: 113564 | 2010-10-26 01:49:00 | Buying from ebay | martynz (5445) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1147676 | 2010-10-26 01:49:00 | For no obvious reason some US vendors will not ship o/seas. Anyone had this experience and found an easy/cheap way to overcome the problem? |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1147677 | 2010-10-26 01:51:00 | There is a good company in the US that does exactly that - provides a US shipping address and then forwards it on to you - blowed if I can remember the name though. Someone else is bound to know it. Maybe SJ would do you a favour, if you send him some Marmite. :p |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1147678 | 2010-10-26 01:53:00 | There are onforwarding agents that will onforward the goods to you. Not sure about cheap as cheap has to be defined. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1147679 | 2010-10-26 02:09:00 | There is a good company in the US that does exactly that - provides a US shipping address and then forwards it on to you - blowed if I can remember the name though. Someone else is bound to know it. Maybe SJ would do you a favour, if you send him some Marmite. :p I found one but the sign-up fee and 3 months membership(the minimum) was more than the cost of the 2 items I want to buy. Shipping was on top of that. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1147680 | 2010-10-26 02:42:00 | Try shipbuktu (shipbuktu.com/), and contact these other worldwide forwarding services. (http:) Reasons might be some sellers have certain worldwide territories for delivery, without encroaching on other sellers selling the same or similar product from the same company/parent company (I'm sure Asian rechargeable battery sellers are like that). They even exclude their own city sometimes, maybe market pricing protection or something. Some US sellers also have relationships with other online stores; I had to buy a Mustang part from a external web site, yet they would not sell overseas from their eBay auctions. Some sellers I recall were told not to sell certain products for branded products overseas (I think Microsoft) on eBay, due to pricing/licensing issues. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1147681 | 2010-10-26 03:28:00 | There is a Kiwi run company that does it, my son brought in a keyboard/synthesiser using them and it all went well from the shipping perspective. However, be warned, these second-party shippers don't or can't check the packaging and the synth arrived in its standard thin cardbord shop display box with no protection whatsoever. Fortunately only one key was broken, which I managed to repair, and we were dead lucky it wasn't worse. The items are shipped to a US address and on-shipped from there so you'd think they would fix such an obvious problem but nope, it came naked! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1147682 | 2010-10-26 11:07:00 | Ask the seller nicely, sometimes they will ship even if they don't state it on the auction. Those forwarding places are probably useful but damn they are expensive. Never used one, but looked at prices once. Can you get the item from someone else? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1147683 | 2010-10-26 12:58:00 | Anyone had this experience and found an easy/cheap way to overcome the problem? Have a look at Buy USA: http://www.buyusa.co.nz/ Hope this helps :) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1147684 | 2010-10-26 17:54:00 | Ask the seller nicely, sometimes they will ship even if they don't state it on the auction. Those forwarding places are probably useful but damn they are expensive. Never used one, but looked at prices once. Can you get the item from someone else? I've tried that but they don't take messages on that topic. Farely rare items, I keep looking for other vendors but so far no luck. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1147685 | 2010-10-26 17:57:00 | Have a look at Buy USA: http://www.buyusa.co.nz/ Hope this helps :) Thanks, found them seem reasonable but waiting for reply re. quotes if I don't know dimensions/weight of items. |
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