I often buy stuff over the internet, as I'm sure quite a few others do on here. I've purchased stuff for the Zed as well as stuff for myself from Japan, Hong Kong, Europe and the USA.
I've used Ebay (worldwide) Amazon (Both UK and Japan) as well as a few other places....
I've just recently discovered an on-line book supplier called abebooks.com. I found these when I was looking for a rare book that my dad wanted. I found it at various prices (some really fooking stupidly high, like over $250!!), but settled on a good condition over in the US, i orded it and was informed that it could take 21 to 36 business days to arrive. It arrived just over a week later! So i was well impressed with the service, which works much the same as amazon, with the used second hand section.
So a few weeks ago i used abebooks.com again to find a couple of items that i was after, I found them and orded them both (from different book stores, both in the US). Again they both stated 21 to 36 business days. They were shipped on the 4th and 6th October, they haven't arrived yet, so looks like they are going to take the full time this time around :rolleyes:
After I placed this order, I won something on Ebay over in the US, I payed for it along with shipping over to the UK (less than either of the other two books) Now this item (another book) weighed about the same as one of the first ones, but cost less to ship, it arrived about a week later!!
How come I've payed less for shipping to a private individual than i have to a book store, and he's managed to ship the item straight over to me, yet I'm still bloody waiting for this over one that I've payed a lot more to be shipped?
In the meantime, I've also had at least four items arrive from Hong Kong (always impeccably packaged!!I'm always impressed with the packaging from Hong Kong)
I just don't get it, i think somebody must be swimming all the bloody way over the Atlantic with my two books :headvswal
I often buy stuff over the internet, as I'm sure quite a few others do on here. I've purchased stuff for the Zed as well as stuff for myself from Japan, Hong Kong, Europe and the USA.
I've used Ebay (worldwide) Amazon (Both UK and Japan) as well as a few other places....
I've just recently discovered an on-line book supplier called abebooks.com. I found these when I was looking for a rare book that my dad wanted. I found it at various prices (some really fooking stupidly high, like over $250!!), but settled on a good condition over in the US, i orded it and was informed that it could take 21 to 36 business days to arrive. It arrived just over a week later! So i was well impressed with the service, which works much the same as amazon, with the used second hand section.
So a few weeks ago i used abebooks.com again to find a couple of items that i was after, I found them and orded them both (from different book stores, both in the US). Again they both stated 21 to 36 business days. They were shipped on the 4th and 6th October, they haven't arrived yet, so looks like they are going to take the full time this time around :rolleyes:
After I placed this order, I won something on Ebay over in the US, I payed for it along with shipping over to the UK (less than either of the other two books) Now this item (another book) weighed about the same as one of the first ones, but cost less to ship, it arrived about a week later!!
How come I've payed less for shipping to a private individual than i have to a book store, and he's managed to ship the item straight over to me, yet I'm still bloody waiting for this over one that I've payed a lot more to be shipped?
In the meantime, I've also had at least four items arrive from Hong Kong (always impeccably packaged!!I'm always impressed with the packaging from Hong Kong)
I just don't get it, i think somebody must be swimming all the bloody way over the Atlantic with my two books :headvswal