Barry,
Indeed it is, I am being patient.........................
Points about **** noted.
Curiously I have just been exchanging emails with a Hong Kong supplier regarding an electronic part. I had 2 choices, them for AU$21 postage included (dear little sucker) or US seller US$15 plus US$219 postage (I kid you not) via **** Global Shipping. I have encountered this before and it is a consolidator contractor where everything gets sent to a central warehouse, unpacked, shoved in an air container and despatched - when full - which delays things.
Then unpacked at destination country, repacked and posted. They lost a water pump on me a while back, the address probably did not get assigned during the unpack/pack/repack fiasco.
Chinese supplier quoted 22 to 30 BUSINESS days delivery, so they did warn me. But those are the only 2 suppliers I can locate
anywhere for that item. So went ahead thinking they were just being very pessimistic.
They provided a tracking number, so I have been watching it and it spent 6 days being packed! Far out, how can popping something the size of my thumb nail into an envelope take 6 days to pack???
I have upped them about it today and they are very worried I will give them bad feedback. I have told them I don't do the extortion feedback thing like you see so often on Tripwhinger and those other travel sites, I just want to know why it takes them 30 days from China and everyone else 5 to 12 days.
They have just told me it is out of their hands and is a registered requirement of ****. Something to do with the **** "Global Shipping". Groan, not that again.......
So, the point of all this, be thankful for the sellers who somehow have avoided GS and can use normal postage.
In the mean time, I have a large heavy device in pieces on my bench waiting for the **** slow junk from China to arrive.
Providing all goes to plan tomorrow, I can get the lathe, not looking forward to the experience of transporting it in a 6 x 4 trailer ratchet strapped but still on its stand so very high centre of gravity......
Then use lengths of pipe as rollers and travel it from under the strong back in my shed the 15 odd metres to its home spot.
Then to level it.
Then to clean it.
A good distraction from not being able to progress with the project on my bench
Indeed it is, I am being patient.........................
Points about **** noted.
Curiously I have just been exchanging emails with a Hong Kong supplier regarding an electronic part. I had 2 choices, them for AU$21 postage included (dear little sucker) or US seller US$15 plus US$219 postage (I kid you not) via **** Global Shipping. I have encountered this before and it is a consolidator contractor where everything gets sent to a central warehouse, unpacked, shoved in an air container and despatched - when full - which delays things.
Then unpacked at destination country, repacked and posted. They lost a water pump on me a while back, the address probably did not get assigned during the unpack/pack/repack fiasco.
Chinese supplier quoted 22 to 30 BUSINESS days delivery, so they did warn me. But those are the only 2 suppliers I can locate
anywhere for that item. So went ahead thinking they were just being very pessimistic.
They provided a tracking number, so I have been watching it and it spent 6 days being packed! Far out, how can popping something the size of my thumb nail into an envelope take 6 days to pack???
I have upped them about it today and they are very worried I will give them bad feedback. I have told them I don't do the extortion feedback thing like you see so often on Tripwhinger and those other travel sites, I just want to know why it takes them 30 days from China and everyone else 5 to 12 days.
They have just told me it is out of their hands and is a registered requirement of ****. Something to do with the **** "Global Shipping". Groan, not that again.......
So, the point of all this, be thankful for the sellers who somehow have avoided GS and can use normal postage.
In the mean time, I have a large heavy device in pieces on my bench waiting for the **** slow junk from China to arrive.
Providing all goes to plan tomorrow, I can get the lathe, not looking forward to the experience of transporting it in a 6 x 4 trailer ratchet strapped but still on its stand so very high centre of gravity......
Then use lengths of pipe as rollers and travel it from under the strong back in my shed the 15 odd metres to its home spot.
Then to level it.
Then to clean it.
A good distraction from not being able to progress with the project on my bench