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Buying stuff on line
March 6, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Recently,herself showed me a spiffo site for buying books.It's called "The Book Depository" (very cheap and free P&H anywhere in the world)
http://www.bookdepository.com/
Recently I saw Geoff Harvey of Harvey Norman on TV whining about cheap stuff being bought on line from overseas (savings around 30%). My rather big ears pricked up,because I love a bargain and am too mean to spit.
So,can anyone recommend any overseas sites from which they have bought anything and trust?
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RE: Buying stuff on line
March 6, 2011 at 10:03 pm
(March 6, 2011 at 8:45 pm)padraic Wrote: Recently,herself showed me a spiffo site for buying books.It's called "The Book Depository" (very cheap and free P&H anywhere in the world)
http://www.bookdepository.com/
Recently I saw Geoff Harvey of Harvey Norman on TV whining about cheap stuff being bought on line from overseas (savings around 30%). My rather big ears pricked up,because I love a bargain and am too mean to spit.
So,can anyone recommend any overseas sites from which they have bought anything and trust?
Here in Oz I mostly buy through Ebay and have found that service from USA and China, in particular, is amazingly good, along with their lower prices. US business can deliver me goods in less time than OZ businesses can! Work that one out!
It's time that Harvey Norman and other Oz retailers got their act together, get themselves proper online shopping systems, reduce their prices for online buyers, and realised that this is the future of retailing and is what the public want.
Most Oz businesses are pathetic online, with no response at all to e-mails, or responding weeks after you've already purchased elsewhere, no prices on their Web sites and no shopping systems in place.
My ISP, Telstra who has the monopoly in my area for my mobile broadband when away from home, has not been able to process credit card recharges for a couple of weeks so far, due to their system being "upgraded", this is along with their pathetic speeds and unreliable connections!
OZ business, get with it or get left behind!
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RE: Buying stuff on line
March 7, 2011 at 5:45 am
Anything RC or robot related I buy online. I buy books and audiobooks at Barnes & Noble because Amazon doesn't accept Paypal. And gadgets I buy at Thinkgeek.com.
About things being cheaper, that is quite often but not always the case. sometimes the savings are amazing though. I bought a strip of Velcro 1 meter long 7.5 cm wide from a Hong Kong store, and including shipping I ended up 12 euros cheaper than going to the local hobby store half a mile away.
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RE: Buying stuff on line
March 7, 2011 at 6:00 am
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For CHEAP tech goodies see http://www.chinavasion.com.
They have a local distributor here in NZ so you don't need to deal with people in China, they have refunded broken goods to a friend of mine extremely promptly for an Internet company, they don't charge you for shipping because their consumer goods are shipped with their wholesale goods (it means you have to wait until the next commercial shipment to get goods but nobody I know has waited more than 5 days for it to be shipped FROM china, so 2 weeks to receive the products maximum) and the goods are all fully warranted, most have a 1 year warranty but you can always opt to buy an extended warranty.
(March 6, 2011 at 10:03 pm)ozgoat Wrote: Here in Oz I mostly buy through Ebay and have found that service from USA and China, in particular, is amazingly good, along with their lower prices. US business can deliver me goods in less time than OZ businesses can! Work that one out!
It's time that Harvey Norman and other Oz retailers got their act together, get themselves proper online shopping systems, reduce their prices for online buyers, and realised that this is the future of retailing and is what the public want.
Most Oz businesses are pathetic online, with no response at all to e-mails, or responding weeks after you've already purchased elsewhere, no prices on their Web sites and no shopping systems in place.
My ISP, Telstra who has the monopoly in my area for my mobile broadband when away from home, has not been able to process credit card recharges for a couple of weeks so far, due to their system being "upgraded", this is along with their pathetic speeds and unreliable connections!
OZ business, get with it or get left behind!
Spoken like a Free Market guy  Unfortunately too often the government listens to them and uses various methods to favour local producers, like raising taxes on imported good and using taxpayer funds to subsidise the locally produced products... The result is less choice and competition for the consumer which stagnates or raises prices and coercive taxes that make the local goods seem cheap but only because the amount of taxes the consumer is paying on top of the retail price isn't disclosed.
It's essentially a form of Mercantilism.
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RE: Buying stuff on line
March 7, 2011 at 8:31 am
Lots of the Chines/ Hong Kong dealers are on Ebay. Use them all the time, although you have to be careful to check reputation(as always). I've found service to be excellent. I had a leather case for my PDA from HK for 1/3 of the price from a nearby city, and it was almost all delivery charge.. yet it would be the same postman put it through me door, minus the flight from HK.
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