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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 21, 2022 11:39:34 GMT -5
I've done it twice, I think. Once last year and once this year. I wondered where this year's order is, hoping it'd be here by Christmas. Apparently not.
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Post by drlj on Dec 21, 2022 11:59:17 GMT -5
Never order anything to be shipped from China. Ever hear of that slow boat?
I ordered something from Amazon once and then noticed it was shipped from China. Two months later I contacted the company to find out where it was. A month after hearing nothing, I contacted Amazon. A few weeks later, Amazon gave me a refund. I then forgot about it until, 5 months after ordering, I got a package from China with the wrong thing in it. Amazon told me to keep it and forget it, which I did because I can’t recall what it was.
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Post by Dub on Dec 21, 2022 12:29:19 GMT -5
Never order anything to be shipped from China. Ever hear of that slow boat? I ordered something from Amazon once and then noticed it was shipped from China. Two months later I contacted the company to find out where it was. A month after hearing nothing, I contacted Amazon. A few weeks later, Amazon gave me a refund. I then forgot about it until, 5 months after ordering, I got a package from China with the wrong thing in it. Amazon told me to keep it and forget it, which I did because I can’t recall what it was. That happened to me some years back. I either didn’t realize it was being shipped from China or didn’t understand the time that would be involved when I ordered. It took several months to make the journey. Like LJ, I no longer remember what the item was. Another thing to watch for when ordering online is knockoff products. If an item seems unusually inexpensive, it may not be made by the product’s legal manufacturer. I’ve ordered electric toothbrush heads made and packaged to seem exactly like I’d expect but found they were of inferior quality in actual use.
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Post by Marty on Dec 21, 2022 12:29:37 GMT -5
Twice I've waited for a endoscope that claimed to work with all systems and after getting it via the Slow Boat from China found out I had to download a driver. So I go to the website given and find out it's in Chinese only. I would love to have one to look inside a guitar while watching my Android pad. Also my Pad went nuts after trying to download the driver, they mined my pad so I had to do a factory reset. I never do anything important on my shop pad just Spotify for music and fret calculations, no banking or ordering.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 21, 2022 12:30:14 GMT -5
You can get some great prices ordering stuff direct from China. After all the stuff is made there anyway. But the shipping is S. L. O. W. You have to figure a month and a half at a minimum.
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Post by Marty on Dec 21, 2022 12:31:33 GMT -5
Never order anything to be shipped from China. Ever hear of that slow boat? I ordered something from Amazon once and then noticed it was shipped from China. Two months later I contacted the company to find out where it was. A month after hearing nothing, I contacted Amazon. A few weeks later, Amazon gave me a refund. I then forgot about it until, 5 months after ordering, I got a package from China with the wrong thing in it. Amazon told me to keep it and forget it, which I did because I can’t recall what it was. That happened to me some years back. I either didn’t realize it was being shipped from China or didn’t understand the time that would be involved when I ordered. It took several months to make the journey. Like LJ, I no longer remember what the item was. Another thing to watch for when ordering online is knockoff products. If an item seems unusually inexpensive, it may not be made by the product’s legal manufacturer. I’ve ordered electric toothbrush heads made and packaged to seem exactly like I’d expect but found they were of inferior quality in actual use. They do guitars, Gibson, CF Martin, Gretsch and others, totally fake.
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Post by Dub on Dec 21, 2022 13:07:41 GMT -5
You can get some great prices ordering stuff direct from China. After all the stuff is made there anyway. But the shipping is S. L. O. W. You have to figure a month and a half at a minimum. Understanding shipping and shipping tariffs is whole field of study in itself. People truly expert in the field are always in demand. I don’t know how shipping from China works but I’m guessing that a small item destined for the US must wait until a larger number of items are gathered for the same depot and then crated together. Then the crate must wait for space in an appropriate shipping container that’s bound for some distribution center. It all has to do with minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency.
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 21, 2022 13:11:21 GMT -5
The site said 7 to 15 days shipping. I ordered it from a place called trapiy. I google it up just now, and all I got was "Words you can make with the letters TRAPIY."
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Post by james on Dec 21, 2022 13:34:00 GMT -5
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Post by drlj on Dec 21, 2022 14:10:59 GMT -5
You ordered a Chinese blanket? Go to Kohl’s. They have hundreds of Chinese blankets.
It’s 15 days to ship but 256 days to get it ready to ship.
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 21, 2022 15:00:57 GMT -5
Yes! Nothing is wrong with my account, so maybe it will just take forever.
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Post by TKennedy on Dec 21, 2022 15:44:47 GMT -5
I just got a piece of rubber tubing I ordered probably a year ago and I have no idea what I ordered it for. It was some guitar project long forgotten.
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Post by epaul on Dec 22, 2022 12:04:43 GMT -5
Several years ago, I ordered a bride from China. There was a shipping delay. Then I met Charlene and forgot all about it. Now FedEx tells me she is due to arrive next week. Ooooh, this will be tricky.
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