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Model Forum / General / Models / June 2007Shipping Charges from Hongkong
The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more than recent successful bid price of the model itself. : The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship : to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? The question is not whether that is reasonable, but whether YOU are willing to pay it. Which pretty much sums up ebay. Bruce  Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes >: The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship >: to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Bruce You didn't need to get cute. > The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship > to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more > than recent successful bid price of the model itself. What kind of shipping is it, surface or air? It sounds very high to me, but that's pretty standard for ebayers in Hong Kong. They sell at low prices and make up for it on shipping. It's not unusual. They keep more of the money from the transaction rather than giving ebay its due. Personally, I would not pay it. ---Stephen > The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship > to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more > than recent successful bid price of the model itself. Check to see what other Hong Kong sellers are charging for similar- sized kits to see if he's overcharging. Recently I bought a Bandai 1/35 Gundam MS(G) Platoon Briefing Set which includes a hovertank (actually an APC) with figures and is about the same size. this seller (eBay name: gogokit) charged $24.00 and delivered it in 5 days. I don't do business with anyone in Hong Kong. Over a 2-week period, I bought five things on eBay from Hong Kong (three different sellers). I was stiffed on every item. Luckily, none of the items were modeling-related (they were ties) and relatively low cost. I also found the postage exorbitant. Each tie was between $5-10 and postage was $10 on each. All three sellers kept leading me on that it takes several weeks to receive an item from Hong Kong and insisting they had been mailed; it almost seemed scripted and, perhaps, it was. By the time I was pretty sure something was wrong and contacted PayPal (about five weeks after the payment) they said it had been too long to file a complaint and they would not help. It seems to me that Hong Kong is nothing but a den of clever thieves who know just how to work the system. Any more, I don't care what they are selling, I don't intend to throw any more of my money into that wastebasket. SignatureCheers: Bill Woodier In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. My Home Page: http://www.bill-woodier.com/home.htm -- > The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship > to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more > than recent successful bid price of the model itself. hi, for example to send a box to us US from Switzerland cost economy up to two kilogramms 38.00 sfr. whats about 32 Dollars. Just for Information because I have at the moment a bider on ebay from the states. thats why i know that. greetings marco > The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship > to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more > than recent successful bid price of the model itself. I guess you need to figure out what the exchange rate is. I am shipping a package to HK to a customer and it is only costing $10 to mail first class air mail parcel for a one pound package. Check this site to calculate exchange rates. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ I have purchased model kits from hong Kong and to buy one or two kits the postage was high 15-20 dollars each but when I upped the order to about 7 or 8 kits I was down to 4.50 -5.00 Aussie Dollars per item. It may be something to do with their postage system in Hong Kong. We usually buy as a group because of this. regards jimboD > I guess you need to figure out what the exchange rate is. I am > shipping a package to HK to a customer and it is only costing $10 to > mail first class air mail parcel for a one pound package. Check this > site to calculate exchange rates. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ i have had lots of stuff from HK over the years, the really big Trump aircraft and military kits.. The way i worked it was, the actual kit price was a 1/4 of UK price, same went for postage, so in effect half price i got them for, i would aften get 2 or 4, come surface so a couple of months....never went missing some sellers would combine, some wouldnt... yes i would spend the eq of your 300$, but load of big kits cheap. Yes they do often have little kit price, huge postage but never had any probs. > I have purchased model kits from hong Kong and to buy one or two kits the > postage was high 15-20 dollars each but when I upped the order to about 7 or [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > mail first class air mail parcel for a one pound package. Check this > > site to calculate exchange rates. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ >The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship >to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more >than recent successful bid price of the model itself. I just got two kits (total package about 18 inches by 10) from Hong Kong in 15 days at $12 shipping. Signature-Jack >The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship >to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more >than recent successful bid price of the model itself. Thanks everyone. I do believe the seller is way over charging for shipping. I guess I'll decide to bid up to the total price (kit plus S&H) I am willing to pay and stop at that. Sounds like a plan. Just be sure the seller is someone you can trust to fulfill the auction and not another of the Hong Kong rip-off artists. Good luck with it! SignatureCheers: Bill Woodier In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. My Home Page: http://www.bill-woodier.com/home.htm -- >>The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship >>to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > shipping. I guess I'll decide to bid up to the total price (kit plus > S&H) I am willing to pay and stop at that. >> The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship >> to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > shipping. I guess I'll decide to bid up to the total price (kit plus > S&H) I am willing to pay and stop at that. Recently bought a Tamiya Honda F1 from HK. Airmail to Australia was 30 GBP. (about $60.00 USD) It was only worth it because of the low price overall > >> The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship > >> to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > GBP. (about $60.00 USD) It was only worth it because of the low price > overall That's the point; if the price is very low and the shipping very high, all that's happening is Ebay's getting ripped off. If that continues to happen, (mark my words) Ebay will figure out a way of charging a percentage of the shipping price as well as the sale price. It will happen. So when you see a very low sale price and very high shipping price, it's exploiting the system; report it immediately to ebay. Get those sellers out of ebay; they will ruin it for the rest of us. --- Stephen >> >> The eBay seller of 1/25 Tamiya tank models quotes US$40 to 50 to ship >> >> to US-Canada. Is this a reasonable S&H charge? This will be more [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >--- Stephen There seems to be a sudden interest in the out of production 1/25 Tamiya tank kits. The eBay bid prices are around USD 100 now. One 1/25 Panther from an Edmonton vendor is attracting bids like USD 405!! http://cgi.ebay.com/Tamiya-Mokei-1-25-Rare-Motorized-German-Panther-Tank_W0QQite mZ140126081540QQihZ004QQcategoryZ2588QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem The one from HK I was interested was a 1/21 Tamiya Sherman for somewhere like USD 100 when I stopped looking. This is a model I didn't even know existed. .Tamiya also had a Panzer III in the same 1/21 scale (from the above Edmonton seller) I didn't know exited either. Anyway they are way outside of my budget. Fortunately I already have most of the 1/25 tanks and my recent bids for the T34 and Su 100 were successful at under $40 each with ~$20 in shipping from the US. I once saw a 1/25 Tiger I posed in a diaroma in Penticton BC of all places. That fired me up that those dated models have potential to become something big, different and interesting. Still in their boxes are two Tiger I s (one for updating to a late production Tiger) and two Centurions (for conversion to the Israeli Sh'ot). Damaged (by nephew) but still salvageable for modification is another Tiget I for converting to a StrumTiger, and a Jadgpanther to a BergPanther. I'll have enough to do till I join that great happy modellers club in the sky. One idea for making those steel rimmed road wheels for the Tigers is to have a mold made from the process used for making company seals. Its a metal impression mold for embossing the company seal on paper. Heat soften a styrene sheet (20 thou?) and then emboss. That's the idea anyway. An enlarged picture (x 1.4) of a 1/35 roadwheel should get me there to order the mold. It will be some time before I am ready to do this. In the meantime anyone else is free to try out the idea. |
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