hong kong ebay connection

jabrax
jabrax Posts: 315
edited December 2008 in The Clubhouse
I see a lot of entries with very low prices from Hong Kong and Canada. The sellers have good feedback with high volume.

What the hell am I missing. Prices just seem too good to be true.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited December 2008
    A lot of times I see a very low BIN price with astronomical shipping. That has been my experience.
    Jake
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  • jabrax
    jabrax Posts: 315
    edited December 2008
    Yup, thats what I used to see.... now they say free shipping.

    To me feedback is the backbone of good sellers. How they keep the high feedback scores is a mystery. There has to be a loophole in there somewhere.
    TV...............Hitachi 42hdS52a plasma (sexy one with the swival)
    Pre/Processor - Emotiva MMC
    Seven Ch AMP - Emotiva LPA
    Fronts - Tyler Acoustics 7U's
    Center - Polk LSIC
    Sub - DSWPRO600
    DAC - Music Hall 25.3CD - Marantz cc4001
    Blue Ray - PS3
    Speaker cables - Audioquest cv4 dbs
    Interconnects - MIT AVT1's
    Power Filter....Monster HTS 3500 MKII
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited December 2008
    It's like the guy said - FEEDBACK. I have purchased several items from Hong Kong with no problem. Again, the seller's feedback was high and strong.

    As for those Canadians, those buggers need to be watched carefully. :D
    Michael ;)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,457
    edited December 2008
    My purchases from Hong Kong sellers have been trouble free.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2008
    F1nut wrote: »
    My purchases from Hong Kong sellers have been trouble free.
    Same here surprisingly. I've had less trouble with them than local dingbats.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited December 2008
    janmike wrote: »
    It's like the guy said - FEEDBACK. I have purchased several items from Hong Kong with no problem. Again, the seller's feedback was high and strong.

    Yep, me, too. No problems whatsoever ordering from Hong Kong or anywhere else in the world as long as the feedback is good. If it's less than 99%, I usually pass. Sometimes shipping is just as fast as stateside. I've ordered Iego power cords from Taiwan and they have arrived in 3 or 4 days.

    Ordering should be product dependent, though. Some products are knock-offs, so you have to read those ads very carefully.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,457
    edited December 2008
    Ordering should be product dependent, though. Some products are knock-offs, so you have to read those ads very carefully.

    Excellent advice.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited December 2008
    The only thing preventing me from ordering from overseas is the costs involved on defective merchandise if there's any sort of warranty for said items......

    Of the items that I've seen, there wasn't a vast difference in cost (within a few bucks) of what was being sold here in the US so I always went the US route.........
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited December 2008
    I've only so far purchased CDs and SACDs off of HK ebay (the latest being the SACD/NTSC DVD of Genesis' "We Can't Dance"). $23.00 shipped. No problem at all.
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  • jabrax
    jabrax Posts: 315
    edited December 2008
    hmmmm.....I may just try it. But the prices for the Audioquest Gibralter speaker cables is insanely low (under 200). Would anyone happen to own these and know if the original box is the same :)

    I might just roll the dice and report back...Its hard for me to tell if this stuff is original or knockoffs, cant find anything in the fine print
    TV...............Hitachi 42hdS52a plasma (sexy one with the swival)
    Pre/Processor - Emotiva MMC
    Seven Ch AMP - Emotiva LPA
    Fronts - Tyler Acoustics 7U's
    Center - Polk LSIC
    Sub - DSWPRO600
    DAC - Music Hall 25.3CD - Marantz cc4001
    Blue Ray - PS3
    Speaker cables - Audioquest cv4 dbs
    Interconnects - MIT AVT1's
    Power Filter....Monster HTS 3500 MKII
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited December 2008
    Early B. wrote: »
    ...Ordering should be product dependent, though. Some products are knock-offs, so you have to read those ads very carefully.

    Agreed as well. It's usually small things (CD's, camera cloths...) and I have never personally purchased any large ticket items from HK.
    Michael ;)
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited December 2008
    jabrax wrote: »
    hmmmm.....I may just try it. But the prices for the Audioquest Gibralter speaker cables is insanely low (under 200). Would anyone happen to own these and know if the original box is the same :)

    I might just roll the dice and report back...Its hard for me to tell if this stuff is original or knockoffs, cant find anything in the fine print

    Perhaps just ask the guy if it is original. That way you have an audit trail should anything go wrong.
    Michael ;)
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited December 2008
    janmike wrote: »
    Perhaps just ask the guy if it is original. That way you have an audit trail should anything go wrong.

    Excellent advise


    If I have learned anything in my business, it`s have/make/keep a paper trail of evrything
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited December 2008
    jabrax wrote: »
    I might just roll the dice and report back...Its hard for me to tell if this stuff is original or knockoffs, cant find anything in the fine print

    Ask to see packaging and original sales invoice if these were used. Packaging can also be counterfeited, just for your info. I have noticed enquiries on fake Audioquest cables on one of HK audiophile forums that I frequent on a regular basis. You may even have to contact Audioquest to get the right info.

    I had to e-mail Mark Levinson, the man himself, thru Red Rose Music to confirm whether he was doing engineering work for a Nat "King" Cole vinyl release for one of China's record label....ML confirmed his involvement in this case.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited December 2008
    That's where the stuff we buy comes from. They make it in China and Hong Kong.
    It should be cheaper without all the U.S. middlemen.
    Of course,shipping stuff one item at a time costs more.:mad:

    Communiction from the sellers is a bit dicey, but they seem to want
    to be good businessmen.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited December 2008
    janmike wrote: »
    As for those Canadians, those buggers need to be watched carefully. :D

    Never trust those Canadians! Always up to their cheap trickery and whatnot... "but they're just so darn friendly!"
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