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Gerell said

 

I am left with Ebay as my sole choice as Amazon ship doesn’t ship to my country. My country is notorious for its outrageous and incredibly long customs process (A stylus from South Korea took 2 weeks to arrive on EXPRESS!) . Luckily I’ve lost nothing yet. I already got a couple of records, turntables, cartridges you name it from Ebay. The trick is you have to pay with a credit card using Paypal. Ebay is owned by Paypal or vice versa I don’t remember. If the item doesn’t arrive within 45 days you could file a refund and you can settle it with the seller. 

You also have to see the seller’s credentials and reviews plus the refund policies.

EDIT: Seeing as you are in Australia it’s a bit harder to find free shipping using Ebay. I am not sure if there’s an Amazon station Australia though.

Cheers (and my other half is from up your way *wave*)

I am now using ebay again, and my first two deliveries have made it worth my while – so far so good.  No Amazon here as yet.

fabfouremily said
Just think to yourself that you’re not actually doing anything wrong, you’re perfectly within your rights, so why feel worried about it? I’ve done it, and had money off stuff. Just don’t think about it too much, and you’ll be fine

As said before, how many times are you going to play this CD anyway?

Ah – couldn’t pluck up the nerve.

Never mind – ebay is working out just fine.  The problems I had with it before were with collectible game cards not being in the condition they were described, and there was no comeback.  It’s not such a problem with CDs, plus I’m saving so much it doesn’t really matter if I get the odd one not quite as advertised.

I have had 4 CDs arrive already in really good nick (“Free As A Bird “, “Flaming Pie “, “Driving Rain ” and “Flowers In The Dirt “) and can get that Ringo CD at around 1/3 the retail

ebay continues to behave.  Got a nicely priced “Tug Of War ” just now

trcanberra said
[SNIP]  One of the local stores has had a copy of Ringo’s ‘Liverpool 8’ on the shelves since release, at a price which reflects the exchange rate back then – it is currently listed at A$28, while the last couple of his albums are A$20.  [SNIP]

Oh, I also just bought ‘Chaos and Creation’ from them for A$27, also overpriced, which got me thinking about this.

Sorry to quote myself –

But – this has come full-circle – I have just ordered the CD that started all this from the Channel Islands for A$7

I’m not sure what they are up to in the Channel but some of their prices are crazy (I paid A$4.30 for Run Devil Run ), my first two CDs just arrived from there – they only took about 10 days and included free postage.

Another bumper day, though one of the discs looks like a cheap Russian knock-off; I bought it from the USA to try and avoid that but it was a VERY Russian name on the sender label and it looks like the dodgy London Town I got – plus it’s missing the printed booklet.  Anyway, today’s mail brought a big Paul day:

The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia (which just made it here, badly packaged and had my address just barely clinging gamely to the book cover)

Red Rose Speedway (the possible knock-off)

Venus And Mars

Back To The Egg

Unplugged

^ Thanks Paul and friend.  The book has had some interesting browsing so far – and I have managed to make my own version of the missing booklet

Only 3 to go now then the card and I can recover, while I catch up on the silver mountain.  On the way are:

Wild Life , Speed of Sound and Pussy Cats.