Anyone still waiting for stuff from China?

jippo nolan

Esel wrote: »

Is it genuine? How much? Ta.

It’s a pny 128gb + a usb stick, cost €8.50 inc. postage.

my3cents

jippo nolan wrote: »

It’s a pny 128gb + a usb stick, cost €8.50 inc. postage.

Let us know when you have 100GB plus stored on it, for that money I doubt its pny or 128GB.

Very easy to put a bit of software on a USB stick that tells the OS that the storage space is much larger than it is.

Hope I'm wrong, good luck.

joujoujou

h2testw will check real storage capacity.

jippo nolan

my3cents wrote: »

Let us know when you have 100GB plus stored on it, for that money I doubt its pny or 128GB.

Very easy to put a bit of software on a USB stick that tells the OS that the storage space is much larger than it is.

Hope I'm wrong, good luck.

Awaiting dashcam that can hold up to 128gb micro card,
Will update when received!

dashcam won't verify the real size. need to do a test on a pc with the h2testw method or similar. probably is some phone app to do the same thing.

ED E

When its a total flop on ya, go here:
https://www.mymemory.co.uk/memory/memory-cards/micro-sd.html?capacity=51

mad muffin

I have an item which left China on the 11/12 and arrived in Ireland 21 days ago still not delivered. I also have an item which left the uk two weeks ago and still isn’t on an posts system.

I ordered a handheld console which was sent on the 24th December and arrived in Ireland on the 27th. What it's been doing since then is anyone's guess. Obviously sitting in a cage somewhere waiting for someone to process it. Our postal service is laughable.

Glebee

I have a small order awaiting delivery from Gearbest. Nothing major. Ordered on 27th November and made it to Ireland on 12th December but still not delivered. What my chances of getting it at this stage??

phunks

Glebee wrote: »

I have a small order awaiting delivery from Gearbest. Nothing major. Ordered on 27th November and made it to Ireland on 12th December but still not delivered. What my chances of getting it at this stage??

That is grim. I have a package that arrived to Ireland on December 27 and was expecting it last week on what others were posting. Still no sign:(

sunbeam

I had no idea that delivery/processing times had deteriorated so badly. Used to buy lots of bits and pieces from China on Ebay and they would all arrive in 2-4 weeks. The longest I ever waited was 6 weeks but that was over three years ago.

I bought a low value item on Ebay on 25/12, dispatched 26/12, sent to airline on 31/12 and nothing since then. If it doesn't turn up in a week I'll pay a bit more to buy from a UK reseller, which I should have done in the first place.

Collibosher

Deleted User wrote: »

...was sent on the 24th December and arrived in Ireland on the 27th. What it's been doing since then is anyone's guess....

Where are you getting the information that it arrived in Ireland three days after it left China ?

I'd be amazed if it did, especially with christmas in between.

ED E

Collibosher wrote: »

Where are you getting the information that it arrived in Ireland three days after it left China ?

I'd be amazed if it did, especially with christmas in between.

Quite possible:

LH8415-978
LH8415 Guangzhou - Novosibirsk - Frankfurt (3 Times weekly)
LH978 Frankfurt - Dublin (Daily)

Thats one of the routes, it flew:

04/01/2018 OVB FRA 10:30 11:00
Scheduled
Track >
04/01/2018 CAN OVB 03:55 09:30
Scheduled
Track >
30/12/2017 OVB FRA 10:30 10:45 11:00 10:54
Landed
Track >
30/12/2017 CAN OVB 03:55 04:38 09:30 09:36
Landed
Track >
28/12/2017 OVB FRA 10:30 11:16 11:00 11:41
Delayed
Track >
28/12/2017 CAN OVB 03:55 05:06 09:30 09:46
Delayed
Track >
23/12/2017 OVB FRA 10:30 11:00
Scheduled
Track >
23/12/2017 CAN OVB 03:55 09:30
Scheduled
Track >
22/12/2017 OVB FRA 10:30 13:30 11:00 13:26
Delayed
Track >

Thats just one of them. There are several, some going East-West and some vice versa. Christmas doesn't stop commercial aviation.


And no, it does not come by ship or surface.

Collibosher

I wasn't very clear, but what specific tracking shows it arriving in Dublin three days after departure ?

I regularly ship from China, and I've never seen that with China Post or any of the cheap/free packet wholesalers.

Glebee

Glebee wrote: »

I have a small order awaiting delivery from Gearbest. Nothing major. Ordered on 27th November and made it to Ireland on 12th December but still not delivered. What my chances of getting it at this stage??

Arrived this morning.:D How come it took since the 12th December to reach my home address? Is it customs? Just curious.

archer22

Glebee wrote: »

Arrived this morning.:D How come it took since the 12th December to reach my home address? Is it customs? Just curious.

In a nutshell..An Post discriminates against post from non white countries.

Why that is only An Post can explain.

ohnonotgmail

archer22 wrote: »

In a nutshell..An Post discriminates against post from non white countries.

Why that is only An Post can explain.

well not quite. it discriminates against post from countries it receives little or no money from. For example post from hong kong or singapore does not have similar delays.

Farmer Bob

Collibosher wrote: »

Where are you getting the information that it arrived in Ireland three days after it left China ?

I'd be amazed if it did, especially with christmas in between.

EMS, used it myself a few times when stuck

archer22

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well not quite. it discriminates against post from countries it receives little or no money from. For example post from hong kong or singapore does not have similar delays.

Post from Hong Kong and Singapore has similar delays....you haven't been keeping up with the thread!!

ohnonotgmail

archer22 wrote: »

Post from Hong Kong and Singapore has similar delays....you haven't been keeping up with the thread!!

my experience does not match others it seems.

Collibosher

Collibosher wrote: »

Where are you getting the information that it arrived in Ireland three days after it left China ?

I'd be amazed if it did, especially with christmas in between.

The tracking here:

https://t.17track.net/en#nums=RB430136440SG

Anyway it's panic over as it seems they've finally processed it:

https://track.anpost.ie/TrackingResults.aspx?rtt=1&items=RB430136440SG

Glebee

Glebee wrote: »

Arrived this morning.:D How come it took since the 12th December to reach my home address? Is it customs? Just curious.

It may not have genuinely come to Ireland on the 12th. A lot of the tracking from places like Gearbest is fake
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103558683&postcount=568

(two Gearbest parcels from two different months. The time it takes to go from one leg of the journey to the next is identical for both parcels to the nearest minute. I have half a dozen tracking #s with same behaviour. If you didn't know better you would think it was 'sitting' in Ireland for weeks when in reality it was probably still on a boat somewhere)

archer22

My latest experiences with An Rust..were a registered package (which had served it's time in An Post prison) was then given to somebody with a totally different name in a town about a hundred miles away.
When I contacted An Rust 'customer service' I got a reply 2 weeks later saying sender must have given me wrong tracking number and to contact them :rolleyes:

last week arrived home to find a letter for a local company in my postbox..which I then had to deliver to them.

So situation is An Rust giving my post to others and I delivering post for them here.
You couldn't focking make it up :mad:

ED E

Deleted User wrote: »

If you didn't know better you would think it was 'sitting' in Ireland for weeks when in reality it was probably still on a boat somewhere

For christs sake. None of this stuff comes by surface mail. It comes by air. No ship can do Shenzen to Portsmouth in 9 fecking days.

tsue921i8wljb3

ED E wrote: »

For christs sake. None of this stuff comes by surface mail. It comes by air. No ship can do Shenzen to Portsmouth in 9 fecking days.

You're assuming that mail destined for Ireland is taking the same route as mail destined for the UK and perhaps it is or perhaps not. As far as I can see nobody in this thread can definitively state what the transit route or routes used are.

ED E

ED E wrote: »

For christs sake. None of this stuff comes by surface mail. It comes by air. No ship can do Shenzen to Portsmouth in 9 fecking days.

Surface mail exists.

In any case 'slow boat from China' is a tongue-in-cheek phrase referring to things which takes months to arrive.

There are various routes and postal options from Asia to Ireland. Sometimes involving multiple hops and distribution centers. Sometimes involving a mixture of surface and air. Anything involving lithium batteries is very hard to ship via air lately.

Sometimes you can choose, sometimes you are simply given the option of free 'standard shipping' and it comes however it comes.

I've already shown that some Chinese shippers give fake tracking data. You are assuming your packets come from China to Ireland in 3 days based on some Chinese website and then are sitting around in Ireland doing nothing for a month. I'm simply pointing out that may not be the case.

whiterebel

Deleted User wrote: »

Surface mail exists.

In any case 'slow boat from China' is a tongue-in-cheek phrase referring to things which takes months to arrive.

There are various routes and postal options from Asia to Ireland. Sometimes involving multiple hops and distribution centers. Sometimes involving a mixture of surface and air. Anything involving lithium batteries is very hard to ship via air lately.

Sometimes you can choose, sometimes you are simply given the option of free 'standard shipping' and it comes however it comes.

I've already shown that some Chinese shippers give fake tracking data. You are assuming your packets come from China to Ireland in 3 days based on some Chinese website and then are sitting around in Ireland doing nothing for a month. I'm simply pointing out that may not be the case.

There is a post going back a bit on this thread, where An Post admit that they may take a month to deliver parcels. Personally I believe it can be a combination of both.....slow shipping and/or slow delivery.

archer22

I would trust the Chinese any day before I would trust anything in Ireland...after all the Chinese are not trying to impress anyone with BS...they are simply trying to get their merchandise to the customer as quickly as possible and get paid for it.

The Chinese have a culture of getting things done...not a culture of substituting scutter talk for real work like Ireland.

eqwjewoiujqorj

Here I some recent order I made and the waiting times.

For me the times are typical for An Post compared to other years.
The odd time I've got an item in about a week, and I even waited nearly a year once.

• 7 Nov - 8 Dec

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  31 Days
• 7 Nov - 12 Dec

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  35 Days
• 13 Nov - 12 Dec

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  29 Days
• 25 Nov - 18 Jan

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  54 Days
• 29 Nov - 4 Jan

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  36 Days
• 4 Dec - 9 Jan

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  36 Days
• 4 Dec - 15 Jan

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  42 Days
• 4 Dec - 12 Jan

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  39 Days
• 4 Dec - 12 Jan

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  39 Days
• 5 Dec - 9 Jan

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  36 Days

Still Waiting

1. 2 Dec

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   54 Days
2. 4 Dec----52 Days
3. 5 Dec----51 Days
4. 2 Jan----23 Days

sunbeam

My package dispatched on 26/12/17 and sent to airline on 31/12/17 finally arrived by An Post registered mail today 5/2/18 -41 days

Edited to say that the tracking number only showed up on An Post's website today. I had checked both it and aftership last night and there was no indication that the package had reached Ireland