Buying stuff from Japan via proxy

[soop]

ok, they want to charge me $158  for shipping.  BY SEA.  f*ck.

[roflmao]

ok, they want to charge me $158  for shipping.  BY SEA.  f*ck.

 

Holy cow!  That's insane.

[spenoza]

ok, they want to charge me $158  for shipping.  BY SEA.  f*ck.

Yeah, it didn't cost me even half that much to mail all my winter clothes home by sea from Japan.

Sounds like you picked the wrong proxy service. They are planning to take you for a ride.

[juggernaut]

I have used SMJ alot of times. Almost every time i get caught with my pants in the mouth (or whatever phrase you might prefer). I get carried away when searching for nice and inexpensive stuff, but when the total adds up, hell is loose
Well, sometimes there is a small amount to be saved, but as a generel rule, the invoice ends up equal to Ebay or worse.

[SuperDeadite]

ok, they want to charge me $158  for shipping.  BY SEA.  f*ck.

Sea Mail is the cheapest for heavy items.  But it's typically cheaper to ship EMS for lighter stuff.  If it's just the Cyberstick, it should be cheaper by EMS, and even cheaper by Airmail.

[soop]

Sorry, it was $115, but still.  They say the stick alone is 14kg and it's 16kg total O____O

I calculated it and that's fairly accurate.  If I get hit with customs, I'm f*cked

[BlueBMW]

Last slow boat package I paid to have mailed was $135 for 26kg i believe (two x68k systems)   Its a bummer you guys get hit with customs duty in the UK. 

[Arkhan]

The reason boatmail is so expensive for teh UK is that it ain't exactly a brief boat trip.   When you go to America, they just go to California.   UK, they go all the f*ck over the place, Magellan style.

[soop]

The reason boatmail is so expensive for teh UK is that it ain't exactly a brief boat trip.   When you go to America, they just go to California.   UK, they go all the f*ck over the place, Magellan style.

That is a good point.

[spenoza]

Even if they go straight to CA, it can still take a couple + months. When I went to Japan they advised I ship my winter clothes sea mail when I left, so that they would arrive by the time winter did. I left for Japan in August.

[Arkhan]

Its not the time that's a concern.  It's the distance traveled.

The trip by sea to England from Japan is holy-f*cking-long. 


Most of the trip isn't even the boat-trip.  It's your shit sitting at various loading docks, and processing around places.

The boat ride itself is short in comparison to all the bullshit prior to boating over!

[Samurai Ghost]

Yeah, there really isn't a direct route from Japan to the UK by ship. I wonder if it would be cheaper to have then freight it to the US or Canada and have someone send it via regular airmail to the UK from there.