Wanted to buy a bit of stuff lately. Just small cheap parts. Motorbike headset bearings. Around 30 GBP with 40 tacked on for postage. And today quoted for a small hand tool out of usa with a 62 USD postage charge.
Anyone found a way to get around this? Jeeze you can get free postage on most stuff from china. Why is the rest of the world so expensive to buy from?
pandai,
May 14, 7:12pm
NZ Post Youshop
morrisman1,
May 14, 7:19pm
yup youshop works pretty good aye. Ive used it from the USA and no complaints at all.
motorboy2011,
May 14, 7:57pm
China has government subsidies for shipping.
sifty,
May 15, 11:35am
Try Amazon as well. Shipping varies wildly on the bay, but I have found the same things considerably cheaper via Amazon.
I also use freight forwarding services in the USA and Germany.
Interestingly, the Czech republic has very reasonable shipping costs.
daryl14,
May 15, 5:44pm
Cheers guys, I Have signed up for youshop. Yet another bloody online account and password. LOL.
3412cat,
May 15, 10:50pm
Just bought some skis from the USA one site has $29 usd shipping charge. another site was $140 usd shipping I bought the skis with the $29.00 shipping.
intrade,
May 16, 6:27am
you know they want to make every cent taxed and the moron said on national tv he wants other countrys to collect the taxes and send it to him. They also lie about that other countrys dont have any free value imports, any country i know of has some form of no tax on parcels up to a defined value ,
dave653,
May 16, 7:10pm
I found Aussie to be expensive for postage. Bought a bit of stuff from Summit and Amazon with reasonable costs. considering where they are an all.
rotormotor7,
May 16, 8:50pm
belong to a global forum. I have loads of pixel friends in most corners of the planet who will onship at 'real cost' from their country
gmphil,
May 16, 9:48pm
$75 aud to ship bellhousing guess its rather large ?
tinytoolmans274,
May 17, 10:33am
Sounds reasonable considering what it is and it's weight.
daryl14,
May 22, 7:27am
Well after all the dicking around getting a youshop account and youshop not supplying a quote until after they actually recieve my parts from mrcycles. The youshop charges plus the US ground charges come out only a couple dollars less expensive than if I'd just used mrcycles international shipping. Not happy. I will see how the next shipment pans out and if the same I will be giving youshop a bloody good serve.
intrade,
May 22, 7:37am
i see it only any good for items when the original shipper only sells to us otherwise it be a waste of time and i have a youshop account never used it so far.
franc123,
May 22, 10:38am
Yes pretty much, you do need to be pricing what the merchant will charge you for direct shipping, or if they don't do that if they will ship within US for free, gets to be pricey if they don't on some things. Its good to have a Youshop account but watch the costs.
bashfulbro,
May 22, 10:44am
A lot of USA sellers offer free postage within USA, if you know someone there, arrange with them and get free shipping to their address , then they send it to you at reasonable rates.
billdee,
May 23, 10:43am
Nearly everything is available from DHGATE.COM No freight from there ,unless you buy from USA thru dhgate I buy a lot Same items as sold here in NZ shops Freight Free At roughly 10% of NZ shop prices
lugee,
May 23, 11:50am
Yeah. AU$60 to ship a soldering iron from Aussie. This was back when we were parity so it still made sense. At least it arrived the very next day, even faster than the thing I had shipped from Auckland at the same time. Most free shipping from China takes so long you don't even remember why you bought it when it arrives.
gsimpson,
May 23, 1:50pm
You can get a quote off youshop if you find out or estimate the size and weight of parcel. Used it last week for bearing shells. Free shipping within UK and $17.25 to NZ from youshop (as per my estimate.) Workmate has ordered parts for his spa. Was quoted $US135 to ship to NZ. Turned out using youshop $us12 to USA youshop and $nz35 to NZ No doubt one could get burned if your estimate is way out.
pandai,
May 23, 2:03pm
Just bought some parts for the BMW, ex USA.
A gear knob, tail light lens, gasket, all from the same shop. US$58.51 to ship direct to NZ. Or, free within USA.
Sent it to the Youshop address. $26.75 to send it here.
franc123,
May 24, 7:05am
Looks like a whole heap of unbranded knockoff crap to me, even the website itself is a knockoff of Amazons. Good luck with it.
ozz1,
May 24, 2:51pm
and no wonder there aint any jobs for your children in NZ. so what if it costs a little bit more to buy in NZ. at least it keeps local people employed.
daryl14,
May 24, 4:54pm
Have you ever bought old motorcycle parts from a dealer that have to be imported or had specialist hand tools imported through a tool shop? Why pay for them to add on a margin for nothing?
intrade,
May 24, 5:06pm
would be good if we could get food shipped free of charge , then we could feed our kids cheap and good food. As the food prices in this country are the worlds most expensive .
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