rossr
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Post by rossr on Jun 2, 2020 2:44:25 GMT -8
DHL worked well for me.
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Post by japroe on Jun 2, 2020 5:25:45 GMT -8
This was quite eventful using DHL, it has me hesitant about doing so for a watch that just arrived to Buyee's warehouse. Curious, it has been almost over a month now, has anyone else had better experience using DHL shipped to US?
I noticed on the Japan Post website they announced last week "Meanwhile, we will resume acceptance of surface mail items destined to nine countries/territories, including India, on May 29, because we have secured transportation." but who knows when they will start allow EMS to the U.S. again.
Derek
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Post by frenchtreasure on Jun 4, 2020 6:54:12 GMT -8
All my recent packages are shipped via DHL, because regular mail is either unavailable or just takes too long.
With DHL I have real-time tracking and 4-5 delivery. They send me a link so I can pay the customs amount by credit card, and it doesn't delay the shipment by more than 24 hours. Usually pay around 30 EUR for customs (15 EUR duties + 15 EUR DHL fee).
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Post by bklake on Jun 4, 2020 17:09:43 GMT -8
I usually only bid on broken, bargain, stuff and ship it via the cheapest option. A few items popped up recently so I went on a spree. I didn't know DHL was the only shipping option. Paid more for shipping than two of three items items. Ouch.
I did get a 7548 that is the same year and month as my 6309 that I bought in 1982. A 7546 with silver dial that is same year and month as my black dial one I got a long time ago and exactly 1100 numbers older. Bad pictures led to a low price on a 2625 for my kid. It is almost new and has the original band. New battery and it fired right up. Oh, and a 6306 technical guide. It's in Japanese but the diagrams are really nice. Details I never saw in the PDF from internet.
All total for shipping and fees approached $100.
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rossr
WS Benefactor
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Post by rossr on Jun 10, 2020 4:13:39 GMT -8
The postage put me off considering this one.
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cobrajet25
Needs a Life!
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Post by cobrajet25 on Jun 10, 2020 5:11:11 GMT -8
Anybody have any experience using shipping on an actual.... ship?
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Post by terras14 on Jun 13, 2020 4:22:44 GMT -8
Anybody have any experience using shipping on an actual.... ship?
I will think that this method is meant for bulky item or item prohibited for air. It may take a super long time😂 But maybe not longer than a crystal I ordered thru ebay. Usps tracking shows departed LA in transit since 6 weeks ago. I am thinking since it departed to my country via air, how can it be in transit for so long? Could it be it never depart or item arrived but pending update?
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Post by nordlys on Jun 15, 2020 4:57:32 GMT -8
The postage put me off considering this one. Wow, that has to be some sort of world record for watch shipping costs.
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slonie
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Post by slonie on Aug 11, 2020 16:58:33 GMT -8
I forgot to add, the other one arrived too, the postman hid it well enough for me to skip the first time. Even so, I've just ordered another pair of watches from Japan and I'm looking forward to them becoming winter watches if this happens again...
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cobrajet25
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Post by cobrajet25 on Oct 11, 2020 5:18:28 GMT -8
Okay, boys...I have a confession to make. I said I would never use DHL again, and I used DHL again. The thought of my relatively cheap SBBN035 sitting in a Tokyo warehouse until Cornonapocalypse was over had begun to bother me. What if it was lost? Or stolen by someone who planned to sell it and use the money to start a new life? I decided this watch was inexpensive enough that even if I got socked with customs fees shipping it via DHL it would still be a good deal. I also decided that it was too expensive to be left in that warehouse indefinitely. So last week I had Buyee ship it via DHL, along with a GS buckle destined for the GS crocodile strap I had already purchased for my SBGT037. I was expecting the worst. Three days later it was sitting on my front porch. No muss, no fuss, no customs paperwork, no back-and-forth with DHL reps, no duties, no fees, no bull$hit. If this is how it always was with DHL I'd kiss EMS goodbye forever. The dive strap these come on is pretty nice, but I don't really like dive straps. I have small wrists, and every dive strap seems like it was meant to go over a wetsuit being worn by somebody who already has 8 1/2 wrists. The buckle is a nice matte black, but it necks down to 20mm where it meets the strap. I had to find something else. What I normally wear dive watches on is the two-piece 22mm nylon strap Seiko puts on the SNZ-series Seiko 5s. Inexpensive, comfortable, and available in black, blue, green, or khaki. I have several black ones. My new "SolArnie" has one, as does my favorite 7548 and my SBBN015. I have a khaki one on my orange 7548, and a blue one on my Pepsi 7548. But the SBBN035 had been 'murdered out', so a matte silver buckle just wouldn't do. Since this is a 22mm straight band I could not use the 20mm buckle the SBBN had come with. I was perusing Ebay for something suitable, and came across this.
This is the OEM Nato-style strap that comes on the brand new SRPD79...the murdered-out "5KX". The seller had two, and they appeared to be new watch take-offs. I normally don't like NATOs for the same reason I don't like dive straps...they just tend to be too long for people with smaller wrists. Plus, there are two layers of canvas stacked under the watch which tend to lift it off of your wrist and make an already tall watch just too tall. But I figured if I didn't like the strap I could put the black 22mm buckle on one of the aforementioned black SNZ straps. The watch arrived last week, the strap arrived yesterday. I gotta say...I kinda like it!
As I feared, the double-pass NATO strap lifts the watch off of my wrist by about 2-3mm, making the watch look in photos like it wears larger on my wrist than it does.
But the overall look is fine, and I love the buckle. The watch honestly looks like it came this way.
I can't say I love DHL yet...but I guess I can grudgingly admit I hate them less than I did a few months ago.
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