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Mixeur
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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Location: Sochaux, France
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject: I begin to be fed up with shipping |
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Hi,
Here is the time for me to make a "coup de gueule" as we say in french
I'm living in France and the old cpu market in this country is definitely too little when you want to make seriously a collection .
So now, I buy almost every cpus in Germany or in the USA.
But there are no weeks without problems on shipping fees...
I've noticed there is a lot of US sellers on ebay that are shipping world wide, and when you ask them for a shipping quote, they always answer you extremely high prices !
Some examples for shipping to France (i think that it will be the same for Germany) :
10 Intel Pentium III Xeon 933 MHz Processors -> $130
(I used to pay 89$ for twice more xeons !!!) 
K6-2 450 Mhz (one chip, without heatsink) : $17.25 via USPS Air Letter
Eh, just call me dumb ! 
The best one :
10 Pentium III 733 (Socket 370, without heatsinks) -> $100 
An other one :
AMD K6-2-450 super socket 7 cpu (only one cpu, without heatsink) : AUS$80.78 (= $62 US) !!!!
And just today : $65.00 for 22 Socket 7 cpus !!!
What do they want ? Make money on shipping or not sell to international ?
They quite always got the second solution...
It makes me upset !  
More over I want to say something : shipping fees with DHL, UPS or Fed-Ex definitely sucks.
Every sellers who want to ship to international should forget them... |
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CPUShack
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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Location: State of Jefferson, USA
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xsecret
Joined: 01 Feb 2004
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Location: France
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Minuteman
Joined: 21 May 2003
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It's for "shipping & handeling" you know, some people have very precious hands  |
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chipcollector
Joined: 28 Sep 2004
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Location: New England
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| The post office is very far away from my home- and he's right, there's handling ontop of the postage. I charge more mainly because it's very costly to drop off 2 international packages at a time to a place that's 45 minutes away, and another 2 packages a couple days later |
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wepwawet
Joined: 18 Mar 2004
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Location: Seligenstadt - Germany
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You're right,
S&H is sometomes very expensive, but besides real existing high prices at eg. Deutsche Post (a parcel to USA has a minimum price of 48 Euro, what is similar to the other way (between $40 and $50). And that is the only way of ensured shipping to USA. So I mostly ship as "signed letter" what has only 25 Euro insurance but at minimum a number for tracking.
From Germany to France it is possible to send a "Wertbrief", what costs depending on its weight between 3 and 8 Euro, Ensurance 1 Euro per 100 Euro value.
But, btw, when you buy a lot of chips, why paying for S&H?
Do you know Fred? - Yes, that Fred that is mentioned in the bad buyers thread. I don't know what the problem was there but I did a lot of trades with him, really a LOT. And mostly we work out trades where shippping is included or he lets FedEx pick up the package at my place and so he pays exactly his fee and not one Cent more.
OK, I make commercial for myself, but why not  |
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