eBay sellers

Stephen

Has anyone purchased stuff from "digitalishop", a Hong Kong based seller on ebay? Just contemplating getting the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 from him for STG £52.99 + £20 postage/packing/profit. That works out at about 108 euros.
He's throwing in a UV filter (no mention what make or model) and a lens hood with it.

I was going to get it from Conn's for €134+postage but they don't have any stock and apparently neither does Nikon UK.

Anyways just wondering if anyone here has bought from this guy before - i.e. did you get stung for import duty?

Thanks

PaulieC

Stephen wrote:

Has anyone purchased stuff from "digitalishop", a Hong Kong based seller on ebay? Just contemplating getting the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 from him for STG £52.99 + £20 postage/packing/profit. That works out at about 108 euros.
He's throwing in a UV filter (no mention what make or model) and a lens hood with it.

I was going to get it from Conn's for €134+postage but they don't have any stock and apparently neither does Nikon UK.

Anyways just wondering if anyone here has bought from this guy before - i.e. did you get stung for import duty?

Thanks

Even if you get stung for duty and VAT, you'll still be in and around what you paid in Conn's. As long as the feedback is very positive (i.e. 97% or above), you should have no problems

Stephen

Yeah he has 99.2% positive and a feedback score of 22,420.

Shiny

Yeah go for it. you have nothing to lose really.

The filter will probably be poor, but hey, its free.:)

The free filters I got looked like they had been taken
ice skating or something.....weird i know!!!

PaulieC

looks OK. I think I bought something from them before.

Stephen

Thanks folks, I have placed my order

Redundo

Out of interest, what Seller feedback rating are you prepared to accept?

As a general rule I won't buy from a seller with less then 99% positive feedback, but I may deal with a Seller of 98% rating if he's had a lot of transactions and the last 6 months have been trouble free.

DublinWriter

I've bought bits and pieces from sellers in HK and delivery via regular post can take anything from 4 to 8 weeks...so don't freak-out if you don't receive it anytime soon.

Stephen

Yeah I've bought low-cost stuff from UR-Galaxy before and it took about a month to arrive