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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: Buying on LDDB/Shipping Costs Posted: 02 Dec 2018, 18:41 |
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Joined: 01 Feb 2018, 02:41 Posts: 1995 Location: Finland Has thanked: 183 times Been thanked: 386 times
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david22 wrote: To me this seems way too much money for shipping. If you think that's a lot, you should try getting discs shipped to Europe from the US.
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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: Buying on LDDB/Shipping Costs Posted: 03 Dec 2018, 00:15 |
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signofzeta wrote: First: look what it would cost to ship domestcally.
Then: consider that Germany is 4000+ miles away from the US at the closest point.
It does cost more to ship an LD than it does to buy the same movie on a Blu-ray from Amazon with shipping. So expect that.
$3 more may sense sense. I think PayPal fees in a situation like this are %3 so did you buy $100 worth of stuff (including shipping)? If so, that’s fine. Personally I value the protection so I just pay the guy the difference if he asked for it. I never ask that question but then I don’t sell very often.
The fees seem pretty normal to me. I don’t buy LDs from Europe very often though. PAL LD isn’t worth much and anything NTSC that happens to be sitting in France I can get from a US or JP seller. Most times I just do the math and it seems too expensive to get stuff from Europe even though there some nice collections there.
I tend to buy LDs strategically. You have to order the right number and from the right places to make the shipping make sense. It’s still common for me to spend $12 to ship two $10 discs. That’s just where we are right now. Well said. I wouldn't buy LDs from a non-domestic seller unless I had no other choice. It's risky enough with potential damage when shipping in the US. I've had a couple arrived cracked from eBay sellers before I started buying exclusively from sellers here. And yes this is basically a complete hobby format at this point. Anyone that just wants to watch a movie isn't picking up LDs. Sometimes having a quirky hobby requires paying more money. LDs are large, it is what it is, like you say.
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Buying on LDDB/Shipping Costs Posted: 03 Dec 2018, 15:53 |
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It was all a few years ago that we got slammed and can't really sell overseas anymore due to the high shipping costs. So many want to buy this stuff but shipping is out of control, I know as zeta says thousands of miles etc. But its just out of control and in no way should be 200.00 to send guitars overseas anymore when it used to be 50 bucks to the same country. LDs, I remember when I could ship 4 pounds of discs for 12 bucks overseas.
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