The Official Skybox Thread: Take 2

[supercharged turbo]

What kind of items?

[scotty_buttons]

I would advise that you do not chance this.

If you are to ship a TV, it's best to ship it strapped to a pallet, especially for a TV that size. Most, if not all sea freight forwarders will not insure a TV unless it's palletised. And of course there is a cost to do the latter.

A TV of that size is more susceptible to cracking due to wobbling while in transit. If you ship as is without palletising, it's guaranteed to break (This happened to me already) and I had no recourse from the sea freight forwarder.

If you go for air freight with a skybox courier, I'd say it's hit or miss even with insurance and free returns, as is the case with Aeropost. I brought a 55" TV with Aeropost last year and it was cracked. I was able to return and recover all my Aeropost charges and then get the refund from Amazon, but due to the value of the TV and skybox charges, it took some time.

From my personal experiences, I won't ship a large TV. I brought a 32" and 24" for my folks on two separate occasions and they were received in tact. But those were small. A 32" would be the limit of the size I'd air freight.

My 2¢ is to buy the TV locally. You also benefit from the warranty. Some places may even be able to custom order your TV but I'm sure you can get a 85" TV to buy locally.

What’s the best and most reasonably priced courier to import a 75-85 inch tv with insurance?

Anyone?

Thanks for the input.
That is exactly my fear given the size of the tv.
I’m also finding it very difficult to find companies to offer insurance as well.
Haven’t been able to source anything favourable above 70inch locally and I’m very particular with the quality of tv and value for money.
After doing research, most, if not all of the TVs I want aren’t available locally unfortunately.

Actually I was looking at doing the same. Saw an 85" on Amazon I wanted and then eventually saw CircuitZone i believe selling the same thing.

When I compared the prices, it was off by only $1,400 or so after I applied customs and duties fees etc.

There are some persons even on this forum that source them for you.

Not when compared to sea freight.

I can potentially save more than 8-10k if I chose to ship the TVs I want myself via sea.

I’ve shipped multiple TVs without palletizing before. 55, 65. And it didn’t break.
Used Seabox.

Which sellers here would be able to bring a tv in for me?

[scotty_buttons]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

[randolphinshan]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

Good boy you learnt your lesson albeit the hard way

[elec2020]

What kind of items?

electronics (example bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, UPS, etc) for the work from home office. The taxes were not bad but the shipping company i use wood me with air freight charges.

[Dave]

Master card you can get Transexpress.

[dredman1]

What kind of items?

electronics (example bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, UPS, etc) for the work from home office. The taxes were not bad but the shipping company i use wood me with air freight charges.

Think that answers my earlier question. That sounds like internal hard drives and portable external usb drives are in fact subject to duties and tax.

[X_Factor]

What kind of items?

electronics (example bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, UPS, etc) for the work from home office. The taxes were not bad but the shipping company i use wood me with air freight charges.

Think that answers my earlier question. That sounds like internal hard drives and portable external usb drives are in fact subject to duties and tax.

brought in both external and ssd drives and no duties was charged only vat

[toyota2nr]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

Nah not me and web source again. Their service is very slow.

[elec2020]

What kind of items?

electronics (example bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, UPS, etc) for the work from home office. The taxes were not bad but the shipping company i use wood me with air freight charges.

Think that answers my earlier question. That sounds like internal hard drives and portable external usb drives are in fact subject to duties and tax.

I did not list all my items (to protect my identity). But a UPS for instance is not an internal hard drive/external usb device so it wouldbe taxed. I also got an energy saving desk lamp for example (to cut down on the usage of lights in my home office). That was also taxed. Not all my electronics were pc related (that is usb cords, lan cables, etc).

[elec2020]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

Nah not me and web source again. Their service is very slow.

Their staff starting to succumb to their original trini ways. That is, we doing u a favour inno/u lucky i even show up to work today.

[Strugglerzinc]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

Nah not me and web source again. Their service is very slow.

Aeropost as well. 2 weeks in some cases from Miami to delivery.

[widdyphuck]

Try ezone

[scotty_buttons]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

Nah not me and web source again. Their service is very slow.

As of recent (last three months) they’ve been shipping things faster than most other skyboxes in my experience

[toyota2nr]

Side note.

Had to clear an iPhone 12 mini 128gb.

Costed via 1834 TTD in taxes via websource

Definitely waiting till next year for any other phone purchase

Nah not me and web source again. Their service is very slow.

As of recent (last three months) they’ve been shipping things faster than most other skyboxes in my experience

This is the second time in less than two months they’ve emailed dying that my shipment is delayed. Time to look for a new provider. Gonna try those 868 packages. They looking promising.

[Chimera]

This month everyone will be experiencing delays.

[scotty_buttons]

This month everyone will be experiencing delays.

Exactly. Everyone will delays

[redmanjp]

Some delays may be in the US itself. I watched one of the NBC news clips which suggested that couriers are overwhelmed with orders right now probably as ppl staying away from crowds due to covid and shopping online so u can expect delays even before your package reach your skybox, then a further delay as happens every year this time of year plus Custom delays. Websource sent an email with Dec. 11 being the cutoff date for receiving packages at their Miami office and having it delivered to you before Christmas.

[redmanjp]

Would it be faster to ship it direct from Amazon to Trinidad I wonder?

[Jade_Inc.]

It might be, DHL is amazon courier down here. Packages are cleared quickly with them.

Would it be faster to ship it direct from Amazon to Trinidad I wonder?

[redmanjp]

It might be, DHL is amazon courier down here. Packages are cleared quickly with them.

Would it be faster to ship it direct from Amazon to Trinidad I wonder?

u have to pick it up from them or can they deliver direct to your door?

[Dohplaydat]

It might be, DHL is amazon courier down here. Packages are cleared quickly with them.

Would it be faster to ship it direct from Amazon to Trinidad I wonder?

u have to pick it up from them or can they deliver direct to your door?

DHL is awesome, fast delivery, clearance, they take payments online and deliver to your door.

[widdyphuck]

Bought something on Amazon Friday.
Seeing a message saying Delivery Attempted.
USPS tried to deliver your package..

Any idea how to deal with this?
I use websource btw...

[st7]

Bought something on Amazon Friday.
Seeing a message saying Delivery Attempted.
USPS tried to deliver your package..

Any idea how to deal with this?
I use websource btw...

Was that message over the weekend? if so, USPS will attempt to redeliver it on a weekday.

[widdyphuck]

It was actually tonight.

[gastly369]

Yeh it will reach no worries...got that many times

It was actually tonight.

[widdyphuck]

Ok Thanks for the heads up...

Yeh it will reach no worries...got that many times

It was actually tonight.

[Skanky]

Looked through the thread but didn't see any mention so I will ask here.

If your order is shipped in more than one shipment but under one Invoice how do you pre-alert these?
Do you edit the invoice to only show the items contained in each shipment or do you just upload the same whole invoice for each shipment and customs will decipher the necessary information?

Thanks.

[Kenjo]

Looked through the thread but didn't see any mention so I will ask here.

If your order is shipped in more than one shipment but under one Invoice how do you pre-alert these?
Do you edit the invoice to only show the items contained in each shipment or do you just upload the same whole invoice for each shipment and customs will decipher the necessary information?

Thanks.

Yup cut and paste the image is what I usually do but Amazon still has the option of an invoice per shipped item

[Skanky]

Thanks Kenjo.
I can't find the option to generate an invoice per shipment though.
How do I do that? All I am finding is the invoice for the entire order.