community suggestions / comments / changes

by **actual** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:46 pm

Adding a (US) (EU) (UK) whatevz in the thread title, as some already do, would be sufficient.

by **D.o.S.** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:48 pm

Username checks out.

by **actual** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:50 pm

Lol what? I already let the regional bst thing go, only discussing it again cause J brought it up

by **D.o.S.** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:04 pm

I just like the phrase don't worry about it.

by **actual** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:13 pm

I wasn't really, but thanks anyway

by **Iommic Pope** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:01 pm

Chankgeez wrote:Seems like the ilovedoom.com domain name has expired again.

Yeah. Thats a bummer.
It'll take a few days before anyone gets up and does anyrhing about it though. :wizard:

jwar wrote:Most people will ship overseas if you pay shipping FYI. I do it, and see a ton that will. It's only a few folks that won't from what I've seen, and I'm not even sure why. I've yet to have a package lost (knock on wood) that went overseas. I've shipped thousands of things too. Soooooooooooo...yea we don't need international b/s/t.

ILD is stupid. Doom is stupid. So is your face. There I said my own come back. hah

Yeah, if youre outside the US, its easier to work out a fair price for the item, convert it to $US, and then specify buyer pays shipping, or that shipping will be additonal and negotiated into the price.
I understand that youve got those fees to deal with, but cant you get stuff sent as a gift or with a fudged value to deter taxes etc? There are exemptions, right? Most ILFers understand that and dont run the BST like an ebay store. None of us want to pay taxes.

Also, jwar, would you prefer to have "ilove90sdadmetal.com" for a domain to hang out on? :cool:

by **actual** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:11 pm

Nope, they fucking tax gifts too. Fudged value might work, but then that's at the risk of the seller going "fuck you, you dishonest dweeb" so, there's that.

by **D.o.S.** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:16 pm

As someone who has sold not-infrequently to EU and other international folks, I don't think anyone has had to pay exorbitant fees out of the blue (or if they have I've reimbursed them for it if they want).

by **actual** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:17 pm

Denmark is special.

by **actual** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:25 pm

But thanks, all. This makes me a bit less reluctant to buy stuff from Murica thru here.

by **goroth** » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:51 pm

It still doesn't work out that expensive. Second hand us prices are usually substantially lower than here to begin with, so the shipping and 25% import duty make it pretty much the same as buying locally, if the usd isn't too strong. Then there is the fact that locally I can get tubescreamers and muffs and stuff 2nd hand, but oscillating fuzzes? Nope. So I'm either buying 2nd hand from and ILF bro or paying crazy money to fuzzmonster or tgt11. Not that they rip people off, but they have to pay import duty, currency fees, shipping, and presumably sky high rent for their physical shops. I buy from those guys every now and then when I can to support them, but for me nothing beats the bst. Canadian shipping has gone up shit loads, but you can still get decent cheap usps shipping.

by **goroth** » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:53 pm

Sorry to harp - just explaining the maths of my argument. I get that the equation will look different for different folks :hug:

by **actual** » Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:10 pm

Here's an example. Let's take the Fuzz War fs on the first bst page. A new Fuzz War in the us is 165$, over here it's 199$ (at Fuzzmonster). The Fuzz War in the bst is going for 135$ and then let's add 30$ shipping, so the amount of money I send to the seller is now 165$. Add 25% to that, and we're at 206$, then add the fee by the postal service and we're at something like 234$ - that's 99$ more than the the original price, and 17% more than a flippin new one costs here. I do calcs like this all day everyday, so I'm very well aware that the prices in the US are lower than over here, yet do you see why, most of the time, international ads are irrelevant to me?
And really, you can get lucky over here as well. I saw a 3-knob Soundwave Breakdown go for 99$ last month and right now there's an Iron Fist going for 71$, small Devis for 55$ and so on.