i love eBay...

[Lee Roberts]

Nice one Irving! gota love the bay !

[Smiler]

I too love fleabay.

I just bought an MPG ( one of these ), a four axis version form a guy in deepest darkest Hong Kong. He seemed personable enough, always replied to my many questions promptly but always started his replies with "my good friend". Now where I come from, when someone refers to you as "friend" like that, doesn't always mean they are your friend and quite possibly you are in for a duffing so I was a little apprehensive. After much mulling, I clicked the "buy it now" button and sent my money off, fully expecting never to see it or my MPG alive again. Four days later a parcel arrives from Hong Kong, marked as "present" so as not to attract the feds, tee hee, and inside was my MPG and a little note saying that, sorry, they had run out of four axis and had sent a six axis one instead (selling on the bay for 60 quid more than I paid)and they hoped I would not be dissapointed. Dissapointed? Moi?

I learned two things.

1 NEVER judge a book by its cover

2 I can get things from halfway around the world faster than I can get them from the UK and at sensible prices. They don't ignore you and service seems to be pretty high up on their list of priorities. (MD take note)

End of rant. (feel better now)

Oh yes and the MPG is built like a brick outhouse, very high quality but my God the instructions are written in Chinglish, anyone know what a "Patulous" is because I have to be careful to wire it in so the original sculpt is in no way anti-interferetiaiai.

Jeff.

PS, Irving I am not in any way whatsoever jealous of you getting those vices

[Jeremy]

Generally speaking, I've also found that buying from Chinese vendors has been a pretty good experience.

I purchased some SBR16 supported rails and linear bearings from a Chinese vendor via eBay and am also well pleased. The total price for two 800mm rails, two 1000mm rails and eight carriages with linear bearings fitted was about £154, including postage. The parts arrived very quickly (a week quicker than some other parts ordered from MD at the same time). They were also exactly as ordered, packed well and of good quality.

I've now purchased about two dozen items from China and so far have always recieved really good service.

Jeremy

[Gary]

Basically you are dealing with individuals or agents who buy from the local Chinese manufactures and sell at a low margin.
The Chinese influx is making it hard for UK companies to deal on Ebay, and that is one of the reasons i wont be going back on ebay anytime soon.

you have made a saving, but not by as much as you think.
You were most likely lucky and not cought with the VAT and the Duty, if your were the cost would have been higher than buying from the UK.
This is a risk you take at point of order, and you dont know how much it will cost you till it is delivered.
Dealing with china is getting better all the time, but you maybe unlucky, if you have a faulty item, because they would expect you to ship it back to them for them to replace, and shipping 10KG and 1 meter long will cost you more than you are willing to pay.

Generally speaking, I've also found that buying from Chinese vendors has been a pretty good experience.

I purchased some SBR16 supported rails and linear bearings from a Chinese vendor via eBay and am also well pleased. The total price for two 800mm rails, two 1000mm rails and eight carriages with linear bearings fitted was about £154, including postage. The parts arrived very quickly (a week quicker than some other parts ordered from MD at the same time). They were also exactly as ordered, packed well and of good quality.

I've now purchased about two dozen items from China and so far have always recieved really good service.

Jeremy