Thread: Someone in Melbourne with an American express card?

Brian, I agree in principal, but this company is the only one I could find that will ship internationally, and are selling at a good price.....
I'll work it out somehow!
I guess it's because I want a particular item, not a generic chinese copy.
There is nothing comparable available in Oz that isn't a cheap knock-off, and I don't want to risk cooking 5 hard drives!
what I'm after is a OEM copy of Windows Home Server ($99US) and a SATA RAID cage for 5 drives($109US)
Here in Au WHS is $220 and the RAID cage is $350!!!!!!
as I said earlier, we are considered the back end of bottom screw as far as the global economy is concerned!

Fraser

Light stuff like that is easy to ship from USA. Tell them to use US Postal Service International Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes. USPS supply the boxes free. You can have up to 20 pounds in the biggest one. There are three sizes. Air mail (no longer any surface mail service) charges for these boxes are - small (4lbs) US $12.95, medium (20lbs) US$41.95, large (20lbs) US$53.95. First Class Mail International Package (4lbs) US$31.40.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

I would not deal with any firm that only accepts the one card. These people have no marketing sense. I have never encountered a USA supplier that does not take Visa. so simple.

It seems that they take Visa and Mastercard - but not from dodgy places like Nigeria, er, Australia!.


I've found many US companies will not ship outside the USA. It's all too hard for them.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've found many US companies will not ship outside the USA. It's all too hard for them.

If you come across this, tell them to look at the US Post Office website. They can do the address labels and customs declaration on-line, print them out, and as I wrote above get the boxes free. USPS supply boxes in flat packs of ten.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Light stuff like that is easy to ship from USA. Tell them to use US Postal Service International Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes. USPS supply the boxes free. You can have up to 20 pounds in the biggest one. There are three sizes. Air mail (no longer any surface mail service) charges for these boxes are - small (4lbs) US $12.95, medium (20lbs) US$41.95, large (20lbs) US$53.95. First Class Mail International Package (4lbs) US$31.40.

Ah but it isn't that simple. I have bought quite a bit of stuff over the past few years from the US for work.

Most recently, the company refused to ship using anything other than UPS or FEDEX. No USPS, No DHL. No other alternatives.

99% of the time they make you photocopy both sides of your CC and fax it to them along with a photocopy of your drivers licence to complete the order. They have said their CC/billing system doesn't allow them to view details of "foreign" cards.

Note that this hasn't just been shipping to Australia, but also shipping to Germany.

Many companies refuse to ship outside the US as stated. No ifs, no buts.


Fraser - try giving them a call. It is likely they will accept visa payment if you fax photocopies of card/licence as above.

I import machine shop, hobby engineers and restorer's supplies from the US on a regular basis and have done so for more than 10 years. I have never come across any supplier who refused a Visa Card or refused to ship overseas.

The only problem I ever had was an auto lighting specialist in San Jose who sent two light units for pre WWII foglights by Fedex instead of USPS as instructed. Fedex charged A$125. USPS air mail would have been US$16.50 at that time. The supplier refused to give a refund of the excess cost caused by their error. I found another supplier and I have not bought anything from them since.