Youshop

Scooter13 · Post by **Scooter13** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:31 pm

Might be old news for some of you, but I just found out about it.

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/products-servic ... ng/youshop

Now I can finally get a "Guitar Fuzz Pedal" that looks a bit like a calculator

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/products-servic ... e-hobbyist

hamo · Post by **hamo** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:34 pm

They're not the cheapest, but as the Stuff article says, they're relying on their trusted name to get people using them over other similar services. Looking at all the extra charges you can rack up importing though - wow.

ash · Post by **ash** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:04 pm

Very interesting.

Are NZ Post still government owned?
I wonder how the Ministry of Trade and Enterprise (or whatever they're called now) feel about this.

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:08 pm

NZ Post are facing trying times with people not using their services any more, I'd say they'd be happy with them doing anything to make extra cash to stop the govt having to bail them out more

Interesting that you can declare value tho' and avoid gst, looks like only insuring things upto $250 too.

candiman · Post by **candiman** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 4:49 pm

Cool, I have been using http://www.buyusa.co.nz previously. Buy Usa work well for US restricted delivery on Amazon and other online stores. Not so flash with anything needing a verified Paypal address.

It looks like Youshop may be a little cheaper on the postage front. Apart from that everything else seems the same except the US address is Portland Oregon vs Boise Idaho.

Some Bozo · Post by **Some Bozo** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:20 pm

Would definitely try it if I wasn't mortgaged up the wazoo

PlukkyBoy · Post by **PlukkyBoy** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:47 pm

So we can finally buy from all the CONUS and Lower 48 Only morons?

Woohoo!

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:58 pm

One thing to keep in mind, is many of the US based sellers won't sell to a non-US credit card, or to someone using a credit card whose delivery address doesn't match the credit cards address.

candiman · Post by **candiman** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:54 am

It works nicely for Amazon...

Post by Bg » Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:36 am

Sweet, I can finally get my tricone pickup, yay!

rickenbackerkid · Post by **rickenbackerkid** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:15 am

I brought something, will see how it works.

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:16 am

bbrunskill wrote:I brought something, will see how it works.

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rickenbackerkid · Post by **rickenbackerkid** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:19 am

A Line6 Verbzilla module. I’ve already got the dock bit from a broken Echo Park delay.

spasm6 · Post by **spasm6** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:34 am

jeremyb wrote:One thing to keep in mind, is many of the US based sellers won't sell to a non-US credit card, or to someone using a credit card whose delivery address doesn't match the credit cards address.

A lot of the more established freight forwarding companies have a service where you pay them and they buy the product on behalf of you.

rickenbackerkid · Post by **rickenbackerkid** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:38 pm

my package had made it to youshop and they are forwarding. the US-to-NZ shipping price seems high-ish, I guess because the YouShip fee is included

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