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| Thread ID: 137112 | 2014-05-23 03:01:00 | Ebay and shipping to NZ | Filthygamer (16897) | PC World Chat |
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| 1375642 | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 | I'm very wary of the chinese "free post worldwide" sellers. I've bought a few cheap items from them, 1 never showed up and the others took nearly a month. It takes so long that you almost automatically miss out on the chance to provide feedback or use the refund service through E-bay. I've tried twice recently to buy a hdd caddy for my laptop, the hong kong supplier was only $12 + free shipping and did make it here just over 3 weeks later. Can't complain about that but unfortunately I ordered the wrong item. 2nd attempt from an american parts supplier was $6 + $24 postage - a lot more but it was tracked all the way through the US and arrived here in under 2 weeks. Incidentally HP NZ wanted approx $125 for the same part. It's always cost what they said it would for me, only thing is do you go for cheap and wait a long time or pay more for faster better tracked service. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1375643 | 2014-05-27 00:45:00 | I'm very wary of the chinese "free post worldwide" sellers. I've bought a few cheap items from them, 1 never showed up and the others took nearly a month. It takes so long that you almost automatically miss out on the chance to provide feedback or use the refund service through E-bay. Ive had 1 item take 3 months from China, must have been rickshaw post :-) Its often a crap shoot ordering from HK & China, can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks. I allways allow 4 weeks for delivery , that way its a pleasant surprise if it takes less . Then there are HK, China (& US) sellers who dont actually have all the stock they list 4sale , you dont find out untill after they have your money. :mad: Its the US Postal Service Ive had most issues with. Often slower than ChinaPost :confused: , & USPS have lost(ie was stolen) more of my packages than all my other orders combined (Incl HK & China) . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1375644 | 2014-05-27 00:51:00 | Hong Kong has been fine here. 1st one took 4 days to get here. The keyboard for this netbook. The 2nd I'm waiting for now. Posted on Saturday, but its on it way. The one that took the longest so far was global shipping - Not inc weekends 9 days. And the other US package (NY took 8 days) And just noticed today, the 2 HK ones can also be tracked, by putting the same tracking # in on the NZ post site |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1375645 | 2014-05-27 01:35:00 | I often buy things on eBay from China with 'free shipping' and it usually doesn't take more than 3 weeks, often not more than 2. I'm happy, for the price. I don't expect it to be super fast. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1375646 | 2014-05-27 01:43:00 | How much is this Chromebook? It depends. Youship might get away with it ... soem of the larger freight forwarding companies are blacklisted. Ie - Oakley sunglasses USA won't use them when you pop their delivery address. But I suppose many eBay sellers might be fine with that. Re: the $40 odd dollar freight charge, that is fine, they say international, sweet to your door. The threshold for importing is around $400NZ. In theory some webistes say different things. Like on the Customs webpage they say delivery is on top of the purchase price. Together so both the merchanidse and the postal are taxable at 15%. But I think in practice they jsut take the merchandise declared value. This could be wrong but when I dealt with Fedex they appear to say the thresold is $1,000, not sure if they mixed up AU or NZ but this was Fedex Auckland calling me when I bought a digital SLR camera. The large freight companies can request payment on behalf of NZ Customs and release goods .... I have bought a $450-500 declared phone and it was not taxed. In practice how much is this Chromebook. I mean if it cost $1,500NZ declared, it's unlikely there will be no tax and even if the seller declares it under $1,000 it would raised eyebrows with Custom staff. Edit - I have used free postal from Asia. Expensive items they use FEDEX Priority so within a week, other times with cheap stuff like watch wrist straps it takes 2 or 3 weeks. Both free postal. Postal cost probably factored into the auction price but these are not $1.00 purchase prices :lol: |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1375647 | 2014-05-27 02:11:00 | China Post with EMS has always been good for my packages. Singapore Post is always slow, Malaysia Post is slower still. DHL has always been good, fedex too. UPS has only been a bit slow once, but for slow service and parcel crushing, Swiss Post are the kings of sloth. One Swiss post package appeared on the tracking site as shipped only a couple of hours after the order was placed, I was impressed. It then vanished from the tracking service, periodically reappearing briefly at various far-flung locations. It went to quite a lot of spots in Europe, then went into stealth mode for quite some time - weeks. I now suspect it was involved in being the stand-in soccer ball for most of the season for a big kicking side somewhere. It eventually arrived very bedraggled 4 months and 18 days after it left. Possibly it was delayed by monsoons in season, then droughts during the dry season and finally held for a really cold snap until hell froze over and the sons of Hades could continue their delivery. Naturally the time for complaints to be lodged had long expired. The same shipper later sent another package by Swiss POS, but having kept a copy of all correspondence on this order, plus the history of the previous fiasco, I was able to have Paypal cancel the order promptly and refund my money. (I don't know what happened to the package, it never made it to here. Possibly still en-route waiting for a glacier to recede a bit so the donkey can plod on his rounds.) USPS since they had their reshuffle a while ago have been good, usually 5 ~ 10 days for first class post. Not as fast as DHL or Fed-Ex, but pretty good for the price. NZ internal service is usually okay, but often slower from smaller centers than the good couriers can manage from China. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1375648 | 2014-05-28 12:30:00 | How much is this Chromebook? It depends. Youship might get away with it ... soem of the larger freight forwarding companies are blacklisted. Ie - Oakley sunglasses USA won't use them when you pop their delivery address. But I suppose many eBay sellers might be fine with that. Re: the $40 odd dollar freight charge, that is fine, they say international, sweet to your door. The threshold for importing is around $400NZ. In theory some webistes say different things. Like on the Customs webpage they say delivery is on top of the purchase price. Together so both the merchanidse and the postal are taxable at 15%. But I think in practice they jsut take the merchandise declared value. This could be wrong but when I dealt with Fedex they appear to say the thresold is $1,000, not sure if they mixed up AU or NZ but this was Fedex Auckland calling me when I bought a digital SLR camera. The large freight companies can request payment on behalf of NZ Customs and release goods .... I have bought a $450-500 declared phone and it was not taxed. In practice how much is this Chromebook. I mean if it cost $1,500NZ declared, it's unlikely there will be no tax and even if the seller declares it under $1,000 it would raised eyebrows with Custom staff. Edit - I have used free postal from Asia. Expensive items they use FEDEX Priority so within a week, other times with cheap stuff like watch wrist straps it takes 2 or 3 weeks. Both free postal. Postal cost probably factored into the auction price but these are not $1.00 purchase prices :lol: I bought the Chromebook off Ebay for about NZD$140 and shipping and freight charges was about $45 on top of that so in theory no extra charges! It's shipping from the US e.t.a. somewhere between the 6th and 20th of June so not too bad. First time buying off Ebay so here goes nothing! Before someone else was talking about lipos. What's a lipo? (sorry to sound ignorant if it's obvious...) Cheers! |
Filthygamer (16897) | ||
| 1375649 | 2014-05-28 18:04:00 | Before someone else was talking about lipos. What's a lipo? (sorry to sound ignorant if it's obvious...) I was wondering too. I guess Lithium-ion polymer batteries. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1375650 | 2014-05-28 19:40:00 | I buy al sorts of things off Ebay, latest was some rechargeable Duracell batteries from California, the ones with duralock technology. I've been very impressed with how well they do hold the charge too. I bought 12 AA size for half what the NZ distributor charges on their website and that included postage from America | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1375651 | 2014-05-29 01:57:00 | I was wondering too. I guess Lithium-ion polymer batteries. I would say you are right ;) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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