Hi thanks Angela..I shall have a read of your link....I haven't purchased anything directly from abroad before so I am a bit uncertain about how safe it is.
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Hi thanks Angela..I shall have a read of your link....I haven't purchased anything directly from abroad before so I am a bit uncertain about how safe it is.
I know what you mean, but Central Trade is the 'sales' arm of Royal Smokers and I know plenty of people have ordered from them so I decded to take a chance.
I think any problems that have arisen have been because of USA customs issues and so I figured, since we haven't got that problem (AFAIK) in the UK (....yet, anyhow), I'd take a chance!
PS - I think the real reason they have taken paypal off their site is because a few people filed paypal disputes when they hadn't received their goods because of customs, so they were ending up seriously out of pocket. Unfortunately, it means that we now have to pay for the priviledge of paying them
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I think any problems that have arisen have been because of USA customs issues and so I figured, since we haven't got that problem (AFAIK) in the UK (....yet, anyhow), I'd take a chance!
PS - I think the real reason they have taken paypal off their site is because a few people filed paypal disputes when they hadn't received their goods because of customs, so they were ending up seriously out of pocket. Unfortunately, it means that we now have to pay for the priviledge of paying them
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I know what you mean, but Central Trade is the 'sales' arm of Royal Smokers and I know plenty of people have ordered from them so I decded to take a chance.
I think any problems that have arisen have been because of USA customs issues and so I figured, since we haven't got that problem (AFAIK) in the UK (....yet, anyhow), I'd take a chance!
PS - I think the real reason they have taken paypal off their site is because a few people filed paypal disputes when they hadn't received their goods because of customs, so they were ending up seriously out of pocket. Unfortunately, it means that we now have to pay for the priviledge of paying them
It sure is a strange way to be buying something that is made in the UK Angela but if I can get it a lot cheaper it will be worth it. .....I quite like the Ecopure.
Including the $10 shipping, currency conversion and £21 Western Union fee, it came to £123 and a few odd pence I think (can't find the receipt right away - my mail folders are chaos!)
Still no change to the webpage:
Shipping Method FedEx Priority to Canada
Order History
04/28/2009 Pending
04/28/2009 On Hold
hopefully the process is underway (I think yesterday was a public holiday over there,) I'll email them on Monday if I don't hear anything/there's no change on the webpage.
WOW £21 fee for the privaledge of paying for it..that kinda sux.
Even still , it's a good price for a litre of the stuff, buying it in 20ml bottles from Intellicig would cost £599.50 before shipping.
(50 bottles of 20ml @ £11.99 per bottle )
Even still , it's a good price for a litre of the stuff, buying it in 20ml bottles from Intellicig would cost £599.50 before shipping.
(50 bottles of 20ml @ £11.99 per bottle )
Yeah, it does suck. But worth jumping through a few hoops for that kind of discount
Intellicig do offer a trade discounted price of £7/20ml if you order 10 at a time, so you could actually get 50x20ml for £350 + shipping from them, but that's still more than twice the CT price.
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The order's updated to "Processing", so things are moving
I'd forgotten this weekend was a holiday over there.
Am I understanding this properly? In order to get this deal you have to pay Western Union £21, pay the Chinese firm their commission, receive a rip-off £ to $ exchange rate from the bank (and pay them a foreign currency fee on top of that) so a UK firm can send us out the juice that they make in the UK? Are intellicig some sort of phianthropic group who've come up with their own recession rescue package?
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It is kinda bizarre isn't it Ted....but that seems to be how it is. ..buy through china to get a product from the uk cheaper.........what a weird world we live in.
Maybe Central Trade have a financial stake in Intellicig, and that's why they have the bulk sales operation?
That's purely speculation on my part - I have no facts to base the suggestion on, but it might explain it?
That's purely speculation on my part - I have no facts to base the suggestion on, but it might explain it?
My guess is that it's something to do with by-passing UK TS regs (ie child-proof / CHIP compliant avoidance)
I believe the containers have child-proof caps (it looked like one in igetcha's review anyway,) and these regs would surely apply equally to the 20ml size that Intellicig do supply direct?
Anyway, I'll report back re: packaging and labelling when it arrives.
Ordered 2 1L bottles today from Central Trade. Hope it makes it! I'll update when I get a tracking number etc. If this works I will officially stop worrying about running out of juice !
!You'd think Central Trade would at least allow paypal payments from the UK as there's no chance of the order being seized by customs as it's posted from within the UK. Adding 20% to their prices where some other business is getting the 20% cannot be good for business.
I didn't know that Scott had already got one of the 1/2 ltr or 1ltr bottles? The 20ml bottles are child-proof.... my comments were in relation to the large bottles and intended as more generic in nature (ie not sure what requirements TS would have in relation to selling such large quantities direct to the public)
I know it's annoying, but it's still one hell of a deal. I believe that Central Trade got stung themselves a few times through Paypal, so because of that we all have to suffer.
I don't know whether he has - I was only assuming Intellicig fit (or could fit,) the same caps. True, TS might impose more restrictions on very large bottles - maybe child-proof caps wouldn't be enough to satisfy them. But then again, they're supplying the large bottles directly, shipped from the UK, and I don't think the convoluted payment system would absolve them from complying with TS regs if they were stricter for the large bottles.
I still find it strange that no-one from Intellicig has chimed in on this subject yet
I would certainly be interested to know how it works that we can get it cheaper if we pay someone in china for something that's made in this country.
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