I can´t agree with you Kwak. I´m from Slovakia, and I´ve received my 3 parcels in about 10 days. It´s possible that unregistred parcels aren´t so fast. You can just buy something over 15usd and there is free registred shipping.
http://support.fasttech.com/FAQ/what-are-the-supported-shipping-methods
“Regular Air Mail
(aka snail mail)”
As my neighbor from Slovakia said, it’s fast.
You fail to recognize that FastTech is only responsible for how fast they process and ship out your order.
Then it is on the shipping company you selected to handle the package.
Ordered 30. December or so.
Shipped 31. December, that is it took 1 day at FastTech to process and get the order out of their hands.
It was sent as a gift, value HKD 27 instead of around USD 26, weight 0.225kg, postage price HKD 48.20 ~ USD 6.22, date 03.01.2013.
So yes due to holidays it took them some time to get into shipped, probably because the post office was closed.
Left Hong Kong on 10. January.
Arrived to central EU on 13. January, to the customs.
14. January delivery to me, but the * was too lazy to come here or to bother to ring.
15. January a receipt in my mailbox that I found after receiving another package from FancyFlashlights.
Went to the post office and got my FastTech package.
During normal work days it should be like this:
1 day shipped from your order.
Then it takes 3-4 days to go through the customs in HK.
Up to 3 days to get to your country from HK.
1 day at your local customs.
1 day delivery to your house.
Total around 7-10 days. Usually the range is 7-14 days with things arriving the 10th day on average.
This is a standard registered airmail, small bubble wrapped package, two hands size, around 0.25kg.
With my second order I was below $15 to get free registered shipping. Didn’t want to pay the $0.51 to get it so I bought some other things that I have a use for and got over $15.
Normal unregistered shipping is probably not an airmail but ground mail, doesn’t have to be but with some eBay shipments I have this feeling that they are as they take a month to arrive, one arrived after 3 months, already refunded that one of course.
Unregistered airmail should be the same as registered one, maybe ever so slightly slower.
Check your tracking. Ah wait, you don’t have one, unregistered, well good luck then as you will have no idea where your package is and all the problems will have to be resolved with the seller and in a borderline case PayPal, but as far as I know, PayPal will not accept it unless it’s a registered/tracked package.
My other package from china arrived way too fast, yesterday or day before yesterday and was ordered 3. January, shipped 4. January and arrived 13.–14. January, 10 days, unregistered from China, my bike flashlight holder.
So it only depends on how lucky you are with the shipping company and maybe your local customs and local post/shipping company.
Satisfied with FastTech registered shipping, same as any other registered shipping from other companies.
My second order from FastTech:
Shipped January 7th.
Left HK on 15. January.
Should arrive here on Saturday or Monday. I guess Monday-Tuesday is more probable.
Anybody got a horse you’re not using for the next few days?
Apparently, California has gone Dark.
This order, PLUS a Toyota gasket set from a seller in California are BOTH stuck in the so-called “Golden State” (this one is in San Francisco, not some backwater hamlet like “Bell Gardens” where the other one is stuck!), for DAYS.
It’s easy to blame China, Hong Kong, etc., but it appears from this bit of evidence that at least ONE problem lies elsewhere. Like in our own back yard!
I know the State of California is bankrupt, but this is unreal.
Back to waiting…
Two separate orders from FastTech shipped the same day:
- Acceptance on Jan 09, @ HK
- Processed through sort facility, Jan 11, @ HK
- Processed through USPS Sort Facility, Jan. 14 @ San Francisco
- Depart USPS Sort Facility, Jan. 14 @ San Francisco
Now just waiting for delivery in NE Texas...
8)
It’s not a common limit for all of EU. In the tax-record country of Denmark the limit is 14$. If you cross that limit it’s immediately +$27 +25% tax :cry:
in Sweden it is 1300 SEK, ~$185
i was worried when i read that my wallbuys order was held at customs, but then i checked the limits, so i guess they’ll release the package now when i’ve emailed them some documents saying it only cost $97
20.80€ (~$27) (incl. shipping fees) here in Finland and after that it's +24% (or 10% for books or 14% for food) tax. If more than 150€ (~$197) then comes import fees too.
:( :( :_(
22€ plus some € goodwill and after that the normal tax of 19% here. No Import fees for orders below 150€. Quite enough for free shipping china goods.
The only thing I don’t like is that the value which counts is the whole order plus shipping.
So if I buy something for 10$ with 25$ shipping than I have to pay tax on 35$.
But I am sorry for you guys who have to pay a constant charge per tax handling, 8$ 27$ that’s hard.
Today I got a bunch of sorted smd resistors from eBay.
Strangely enough I could buy for 10$ with 25$ shipping without paying tax!
Our limit at 14$ (80DKR) is the price WITHOUT shipping.
That has been a discussion topic here for years, you could get two different answers when asking the tax authorities, but it is clarified now.
But when the limit is crossed, you have to pay tax of the shipping also.
It’s blatant protectionism, in my opinion. Just a way of getting around free trade agreements. As if you could even buy the stuff that you want in your local retail stores!
One of the major retail chain owners (Gerry Harvey) here in Au keeps complaining about our high import limit before GST, (it’s $1000, then after that, you get charged 10%) claiming it’s sending him broke. Well, he’s got a racing stable with numerous horses, several mansions, and sells overpriced junk!
I wouldn’t mind paying GST on my online purchases one little bit. Example, last week I got a Fluke 179 online, cost me $290 delivered. Locally, it costs $495. What are you going to do? I would happily pay the GST, and still buy online. That meter would have cost me $309 if I’d had to pay the tax. Retailers need to get with the program, and realise that consumers are now much more informed than they used to be.
And don’t get me started on books - we’ve been gouged on these like everything else for years - they’re half the price from bookdepository.co.uk - and that’s including shipping from the other side of the world. Something’s not right somewhere…
Signed, grumpy didge |(
Item arrived to my country 15th January, spent 5(!!!) days at customs, was freed from customs yesterday and received at post office today, 21st January.
So, subtract those 9(!!!) days that my item spent in HK post it would be pretty fast shipping, lets say 2 days at HK post office means I could have received my item week ago or maybe sooner given that there were two holidays(saturday and sunday) during 5 day period that my item spent at customs…
I paid for registered, not happy this time, 17 days in transit, wasnt worth paying premium IMO.
My Paypal account says I payed for my order at: thu. 17. jan. 2013 12:46:45 GMT-08:00
Still waiting for order to ship…
Wallbuys was faster than that on their last sale…
Well,I ordered few items on 18.02. and they aren’t shipped yet.Anyone else has similar problem?Also,customer service doesn’t work at all(error message:“The page isn’t redirecting properly”).
I´ve also ordered during the end of the holidays and I searched this thread because I wanted to ask the same as led4power.
No shipping email yet : (
I ordered some things on 15th and 17th both got shipped immediately(one or two days), but i have just ordered things which were in stock.
On some items there is a note that the supplier has holidays until 22th.
By the way i have an DX order pending since some days…
My DX orders took 4 weeks to get shipped and another ~6 to arrive…
Have you tried a different browser? Opera (12.14) doesn’t work for certain things with me. The dreaded IE works fine.
And I do seem to remember a few days lag between order and a ship notification the last I got stuff. However, it arrived pretty quickly after that.
It was their CNY celebration time, try browsers like Mozilla or IE, perhaps youre using Chrome?
I had few pages not working because of Chrome.
Anyway, good luck receiving in time ;)!