Re: Good sale gone bad
Thats because they are busy playing with your stuff :crackup:
International shipping, especially overseas can take more than a month......
I too have waited for what seemed an eternity for things to turn up from the US and more than four weeks at times......
Italy? Well, it's less than a third the distance to the US but often takes 3 times as long to deliver there from the UK! .....
Heh, the main problem, here in Italy, is that, "apparently"
eg
, customs offices try intentionally to "discourage" peoples from buying items from east, especially China / HK zones (but, i'm sure, they do this for our safety, not just cause so you can have the same items at 1/4 of the price that you have to pay here ..... /sarcasm
)
Anyway, i had some packages tracked from HK to here, and seen that the main delay is caused from customs offices and postal system ..... usually, tracking reveil me that the packages takes from 5 to 10 days for travel from HK postal system to our customs in Linate Pozzolo, and from 35 to 50 days for do the last 150Km from there to my home ..... the record, at least til now, is a package that took 6 days from HK to Linate, and 59 days from Linate to here (tracked times
).
Also, if you see on ebay, there are always more sellers from east countries, that in their auctions states "we sell worldwide, except Italy" ..... usually, they are "diplomatic", and just say "cause strict customs inspections", but i've found some of them that stated clearly, and have also replied me in email, "Sorry, we do not ship to Italy anymore, cause half of the packages go
lost in transit through custom offices" (this is rare for tracked items, but happens a lot of time for standard non-tracked shipping, and almost all those companies that sell "free shipping", usually don't use tracked system)
Yeah.... normally items over $50.00 get Shipping Insurance but no
tracking... Insurance PLUS Tracking is only for items >$100.00..:na:
......
Jerry
This is a good thing, but you have also to considerate taxes and fees, that for some countries are outrageously criminal (guess what country i'm referring ? .....
)
I mean, sometimes, a buyer ask for low prices declarations, cause otherwise he becomed ripped off from his own country ..... just for give you an example, i had to pay 29 euro for an item that i had already paid 40 Euro to the seller, and forgot to ask him to declare 20 or less ..... (73% extra of the declared value) ..... from these 29 Euro extra, 8 Euro was
the tax (iva 20%, i think you call it VAT), 12 Euro was "custom presentation" (that, basically, means that
they looked your package and decided that you had to pay an extra), and 9 Euro was "postal fees" (that, basically, is the price they charge you
for the printing of the paper sheet that say you that you have to pay the exteas ..... and you're lucky that this sheet become delivered to you with the rest of the package, otherwise you will have others 14 Euro extra, if they send it to you via letter
)
With a so "honest" system, is almost normal, that some buyers asks for reduced values declarations .....
remote EU Countires, this could take an enternity...