I have 2 orders with Focale and 2 orders With Wallbuys, their owner and sister site...but still NOT received any orders since 22 Nov and no info or no tracking for either...and they both used Swiss Post and Sweden Post for these orders, the slowest shippers in China to the US..and no illegal items in all 4 orders..and I have opened up 4 Paypal disputes now for each order....
I also made 4 orders on 22 Nov with fasttech, and received tracking numbers immediately and were shipped out the next day, for all 4 orders..2 orders with USPS epacket China Post shipping arrived within 10 days to my home in the US, and 2 other orders with ego batts and shipped Registered Airmail Singapore Post (Not USPS First Class) were received within 17 days...and I had no need to contact Customer Service for anything..
These 8 orders of 4 from FT, and 4 from Focale-Wallbuys (which are the same company and monies are distributed into the same Paypal account ID), were complete opposites of each other and had completely different experiences and results....so this was my "Test Run" of these 3 sites/vendors..and its easily to see that my experiences with Focale and Wallbuys were just very unsatisfactory and I learned a lesson to never use either again..
szot could you please clarify your November Focalecig - Fastech experiences?
In a post earlier this month on the http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ion/505181-my-first-experience-chinabuye.html thread you posted:
"I also have tried a few smaller Chinese vendors, wallbuys.com and focalecigs.com (affiliates), which has same prices as FastTtech (FT), but had better luck with shipping/ordering from wallbuys and focalecigs than I did with FT.....I have 4 orders on 28 Nov shipped with FT, that are still in China..and 4 orders with wallbuys and focalecigs from same date shipped 28 Nov , that have been delivered already to me in the US..all orders were ego batts and tanks etc..so another option , U may want to consider is wallbuys and focalecigs....I have a feeling FT had burned some bridges and not well received by postal in China, and that's why I did this lil 8 order test run...and the products and prices are all fairly equal in quality from all 3 of these Chinese vendors..and they all use Singapore Post, Swiss Post, Sweden Post, HK Post, China Post etc then USPS for shipping.."
Did you do 2 test-runs with such vastly different results? 2x4 on the 22nd and 2x4 on the 28th?
szot could you please clarify your November Focalecig - Fastech experiences?
In a post earlier this month on the http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ion/505181-my-first-experience-chinabuye.html thread you posted:
"I also have tried a few smaller Chinese vendors, wallbuys.com and focalecigs.com (affiliates), which has same prices as FastTtech (FT), but had better luck with shipping/ordering from wallbuys and focalecigs than I did with FT.....I have 4 orders on 28 Nov shipped with FT, that are still in China..and 4 orders with wallbuys and focalecigs from same date shipped 28 Nov , that have been delivered already to me in the US..all orders were ego batts and tanks etc..so another option , U may want to consider is wallbuys and focalecigs....I have a feeling FT had burned some bridges and not well received by postal in China, and that's why I did this lil 8 order test run...and the products and prices are all fairly equal in quality from all 3 of these Chinese vendors..and they all use Singapore Post, Swiss Post, Sweden Post, HK Post, China Post etc then USPS for shipping.."
Did you do 2 test-runs with such vastly different results? 2x4 on the 22nd and 2x4 on the 28th?
Took a look. Did a little reading.
Nothing to make me feel secure in using them over any other China Vender.
Do not like the idea they lack the ability(or desire) to send a simple email conformation of an order.
I only deal with companies that reply to a purchase and provide Tracking.
Perception Vs Reality is a very interesting thing ... On 12/25/13 I made a purchase with Chinabuye (1st), and Focalecig (2nd), they are both new vendors to me, and I was interested in trying both companies. Now Chinabuye did send an email confirmation after I placed my order, for an item which was listed as In Stock. Approx 30 hours after placing my order I received an email from Chinabuye which stated my order would take approx 3 to 7 days to ship .. Now they tell me? More than 30 hours AFTER my purchase, interesting ... , whereas Focalecig had this information posted upfront, on the item listing itself.
I keep trying new Chinese companies too I just bought the Russian clone from from vaporbreak because they had 112 in stock, sent them paypal 2 days later I get email saying sorry out of stock will ship asap when they get more..ugh cant win
ok my stuff is in the mail, but no idea on how to tell where it is at the moment...i can see the tracking number but ...meh..it will get here when it gets here
I ordered a steam turbine and a protank II - from what I was told I'll maybe need to get another glass sleeve for the Turbine and probably screws for it too, since the stock ones might rust. But thats not a big deal.
12-25 .... I always say if you don't like your Christmas gifts buy yourself some...lol
ok my stuff is in the mail, but no idea on how to tell where it is at the moment...i can see the tracking number but ...meh..it will get here when it gets here
I ordered a steam turbine and a protank II - from what I was told I'll maybe need to get another glass sleeve for the Turbine and probably screws for it too, since the stock ones might rust. But thats not a big deal.
**edit** you should be able to use your tracking# here .. if you just rec'd it, I would wait at least three days before trying to track it.
https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1
anyone know how is this.....$13.50 Sailing Type Mechanical Mod with Adjustable Pins-Silver + Golden(1 x 18350)
Hahaha Chinatrye i can post my complete experience from early November for a KFL clone @ $34 that was stated in stock when ordered (everything they sell says in stock i suspect only items listed as quickship are) got the usual emails not in stock, then 3-7 days, then we have to get the supplier to make them, then the supplier sent the wrong stock.... blah blah blah there responses were like a George bush speech lies (replies), excuses more excuses then even more excuses opened a PayPal dispute after 4 weeks (order wasn't sent) weird PayPal refunded me in less than 2 hours why so fast i wonder? Bye Bye Chinatrye roll the dice!
I feel the love for my Chinese cousins, i know it's just business.
Happy new year! And welcome to the Horse for Chinese new year 2014!
Vape on!
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