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beanflying:
--- Quote from: M0HZH on May 21, 2020, 09:11:33 pm ---I think most of those "UK stock" chinese sellers use some sort of forwarding service, they post from China via Airmail (most probably subsidised by their government) and a local UK company / person takes it to Royal Mail. You get a RM tracking number but that shows no movement for about a week or so. eBay should find a way to fight that, but I guess it's good money for them so they just ignore it.
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As distinct from what the Royal Mail has done in the past with Government Subsidies and parcel rates below cost :-DD China just took an idea from the West and 'improved it'.
As to the rest of it very common in Oz to get rapid Airfreight ex China into Oz but also in the case of larger or heavier items local Warehouse and logistics firms are used.
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: M0HZH on May 21, 2020, 09:11:33 pm ---I think most of those "UK stock" chinese sellers use some sort of forwarding service, they post from China via Airmail (most probably subsidised by their government) and a local UK company / person takes it to Royal Mail. You get a RM tracking number but that shows no movement for about a week or so. eBay should find a way to fight that, but I guess it's good money for them so they just ignore it.
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I got caught out. The advert said Australian stock shipped from Sydney, but the seller shipped it from China. I needed it pretty quickly. Due to the corona virus, it arrived 2 months later - posted from from China. Prior to it arriving, I got the seller to give me a full refund but I never returned the product or the refund when the product finally arrived. I would have happily met them half way if the coronavirus caused a shipping delay, but they lied and that is why the gloves came off :box:. I gave them negative feedback as well and their account disappeared a couple of days later. They also used fake western names to try to fool customers. No-one with a Christian name of Alfred is going to write "We sory product late with slow post. we hope understand from COVID virus."
SilverSolder:
It seems shipping from China to USA takes about a month these days, given CV19 and all. - prices have gone up as well, so it is less attractive to wait.
tom66:
--- Quote from: OwO on April 25, 2020, 03:38:16 pm ---Are there actually serious businesses that don't keep 1-2 years worth of buffer in the bank? I've worked with a few small businesses and they all have a lot of "reserve" capital and don't mind getting paid 2 months after goods are out the door, plus they have to keep inventory as well which "ties up" more than a few months worth of cashflow. As a small business, you also don't have the level of trust with suppliers and typically have to pay them upfront, which again means months of money tied up in in-progress production runs. I don't think this is usually a problem for any properly run business.
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1-2 years? Maybe for a big giant like Amazon. But even our bigger retailers in this country are make-and-break over Christmas sales. The name "Black Friday" is not just a myth. For some retailers they only have a month or two of cashflow at any one time, and it's difficult to stay competitive while building a huge buffer up.
engrguy42:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on May 23, 2020, 10:30:54 am ---It seems shipping from China to USA takes about a month these days, given CV19 and all. - prices have gone up as well, so it is less attractive to wait.
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I ordered some PCB's from China on Monday and just received them in US yesterday. 1 day to manufacture, 4 days shipping. So it depends.
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