Which ones do you use? What are your experiences with these services? Which would you recommend to your mediocre brethren?
None of the above. It's all about having family members in the States that you can saddle with random things until you visit them or they visit you.
Viabox.com is the best and cheapest among all of them.
Lot of people are switching from Myus & Borderlinx to Viabox because they don't charge you any extra fees other than shipping cost which very straight forward.
@AussieMike How do they make money then? It seems like they'd need to charge some sort of fee.
@SteveOOO perhaps a commission from the shipping companies?
are there any that do the opposite? Buy something from a foreign country and get it to me in the US using a foreign mailing address?
@unixrab I would think that completely depends on the country you're looking to ship from. You won't find one company that covers "foreign countries".
www.ohmyzip.com has very good service and prices for Korea. They also have good prices for China and Japan.
@dav1d0 I love it; Shipped in a gigantic container ship with millions of other units from China, air freight back to China.
They are fast cheap and has very good customer service.
Is there anyway I can get these products shipped to India without going broke?
@Satyajeet it depends upon whether you are also willing to get that online gambling habit under control.
@RedOak I know it’s a sin, BET you can’t just give it up that easy!
How do you guys deal with the requirement to have a US or Canada billing address on your card?
Try contacting the biggest forwarders and see if they provide assistance with this. What is legal will vary country by country.
Also your card issuing may allow you to list an alternative or secondary billing address, and the forwarder may allow you to use this address as a temp billing address.
Start by contacting the card issuer.
Canadians love not having to walk outside and freeze our balls just to buy something. Even if it’s pretty 'meh.
I suspect setting up an alternate contractor to accept postal codes and ship outside the US would at least double the size of the super rad map for ‘who’s buying this crap’.
You decided not to use a forwarder?
Hmmmm, I’ll have to think this over a bit more.
Just charge a few more bucks and start shipping to AK/HI. No way is it worth using a forwarder and essentially pay twice/thrice the shipping rate.
I use Kinek all the time - ships it to a spot about 4 minutes from the USA/Canada border, and then pickup is $5. Works fantastically.
@Spike If you were really lazy, you could even call Uber/Lift. I expect all the unmanned cars in the future to be carrying pizza in them.
@Fuzzalini We don’t have either. Thanks taxi monopoly and corruption!!
@iburn74 yes you can use Gloablshopaholics they are providing shipping to Malaysia, There charges are very low as compare to other companies. I am also using their service.
Why can’t you guys just ship internationally? I don’t get what the problem is.