**AUSTRALIAN** question **NO KIWIS ** please

[stratford]

G'day all,

Are there any **AUSTRALIAN** not KIWI sellers of new Blu-rays and 4K Disc movies that ship from **AUSTRALIA** with propper shipping times to UK/GB/ England please? Amazon Europe and USA don't have any difficulty getting things to me in a timely manner.

Thank you
Stratford

[LucasJ]

JB Hifi?

[stratford]

Originally Posted by LucasJ

JB Hifi?

G'day LucasJ my understanding is not recently. By proper, I mean a delivery time to UK of close to 2 weeks which is likely to use the likes of Fedex

[bigrob]

JBHiFi stopped shipping to the UK as of 1st Jan

have been suggested Sanity as a possible alternative

[stratford]

Originally Posted by bigrob

JBHiFi stopped shipping to the UK as of 1st Jan

have been suggested Sanity as a possible alternative

bigrob Sanity are part of my challenge, they only want to offer cheap ass delivery or F-O. As you might know cheap ass delivery is the subject of countless complaints over orders taking months to reach UK/ Europe.

Over the past year I've used the Amazon group with sencible delivery and had every thing turn up quickly first time.

Ii've imported from Oz before the pandemic using express delivery and been impressed

[koberulz]

Australia is a long way from anywhere and has closed its borders, shipping won't be quick.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by koberulz

Australia is a long way from anywhere and has closed its borders, shipping won't be quick.

koberulz as much as I don't blame people here, DHL-Australia giving UK items to Royal Mail for the final mile rather than DHL-UK really beggars belief. Just what do people expect RM to do when their back is all ready against the wall.
Shops not being allowed to open forces web sales on to them, someone has to deliver the order.

Stratford where I live, businesses are ready to close, they don't because of Government support. So complaints because of orders taking at least two months will be a great way to get repeat custom

[lemonski]

I’m in NZ, but since you don’t seem to be interested in my input , maybe I shouldn’t bother telling you the answer to your problem.

You can use ausff (ausff.com.au) - they’re a freight forwarder who will on-ship anything to you in the UK and they have an express shipping option of 3-7 business days, or more reasonably priced standard (5-10 days) and economy (8-14 days) delivery. So you can effectively buy from any Aussie retailer you like and get fast shipping to the UK.

I’ve used them *once* before, I needed a title that JB would ship locally but not internationally, and they were perfectly fine.

You’re welcome

[LordCrumb]

How dare you reply to his question Kiwi!

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by LordCrumb

How dare you reply to his question Kiwi!

[TenYearLurker]

Hey stratford, you seem to be ignoring the fact that both Australia and your country are heavily impacted by a yearlong global pandemic, and you should adjust your expectations.

I live in the states, and many deliveries from Amazon US that should have taken 2 days have taken over a week. I've also placed several orders from Amazon DE and Amazon UK over the last year, and almost every one of them has taken over a month.

Again, you should adjust your expectations to something much more reasonable. It would also be cool if you adjusted the thread title to something that isn't so unnecessarily aggressive to our kiwi friends, particularly since it was someone from NZ who gave you your best answer. Cheers.

[fuzzymctiger]

The only places that have gotten anything to Australia in a reasonable time for me this past year have been Amazon using Prime, and some Japanese retailers (what few still ship to Australia and only using DHL).

Other than that, it's been 3-6 week waits for everything. Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Zavvi, ImportCDs, you name it.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by TenYearLurker

Hey stratford, you seem to be ignoring the fact that both Australia and your country are heavily impacted by a yearlong global pandemic, and you should adjust your expectations.

I live in the states, and many deliveries from Amazon US that should have taken 2 days have taken over a week. I've also placed several orders from Amazon DE and Amazon UK over the last year, and almost every one of them has taken over a month.

Again, you should adjust your expectations to something much more reasonable. It would also be cool if you adjusted the thread title to something that isn't so unnecessarily aggressive to our kiwi friends, particularly since it was someone from NZ who gave you your best answer. Cheers.

TenYearLurker possibly I've been lucky with Amazon-usa and amazon-de over the pandamic, but my real experience with them was top draw. With each I paid for the expensive shipping and in stock items arrived very quickly. A lot of people here that I see use the cheap delivery instead.

I've used beet the bomb, my order was sent by express delivery and arrived I think in about a week, but certainly very quickly

[stratford]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

The only places that have gotten anything to Australia in a reasonable time for me this past year have been Amazon using Prime, and some Japanese retailers (what few still ship to Australia and only using DHL).

Other than that, it's been 3-6 week waits for everything. Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Zavvi, ImportCDs, you name it.

fuzzymctiger I had from Oz to uk in mind.
The wish to keep things kiwi free is because previously one of them trashed my thread. The kiwi knows who they are

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

The only places that have gotten anything to Australia in a reasonable time for me this past year have been Amazon using Prime, and some Japanese retailers (what few still ship to Australia and only using DHL).

Other than that, it's been 3-6 week waits for everything. Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Zavvi, ImportCDs, you name it.

3-4 weeks was always normal for me even pre-COVID, at least from the US. UK used to be weirdly quicker, but that stopped a couple of years ago too.

[isamu_]

Our national postal service, Australia Post, does the heavy lifting for B2C delivery (domestic and international). Because Australia Post uses commercial logistics for international deliveries, delivery times have been heavily impacted by our border restrictions.

Our direct-to-consumer export market is tiny, so there's really no point for most retailers to integrate private shipping services as a part of their model (Fedex, DHL, et al). I'm not sure if you'll find any retailers who offer this.

A freight forwarding service is likely your best option.

[stratford]

Originally Posted by isamu_

Our national postal service, Australia Post, does the heavy lifting for B2C delivery (domestic and international). Because Australia Post uses commercial logistics for international deliveries, delivery times have been heavily impacted by our border restrictions.

Our direct-to-consumer export market is tiny, so there's really no point for most retailers to integrate private shipping services as a part of their model (Fedex, DHL, et al). I'm not sure if you'll find any retailers who offer this.

A freight forwarding service is likely your best option.

isamu_ Beet the bomb used to have an express service that was very good, most likely the likes of ups/ fedex. At the moment I'm checking out ausff.com that lemonski kindly reccomended

[TrentW1982]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

The only places that have gotten anything to Australia in a reasonable time for me this past year have been Amazon using Prime, and some Japanese retailers (what few still ship to Australia and only using DHL).

Other than that, it's been 3-6 week waits for everything. Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Zavvi, ImportCDs, you name it.

I noticed since around Christmas time, I had parcels from Vinegar Syndrome, 88 Films and Zavvi all arrive in 11-12 days and only using standard shipping too! Not sure if I just got lucky, maybe they got on flights quickly out of the US and UK, and maybe on our end here timeframes are getting back to normal with Australia Post.

Of course that doesn't answer the OP about shipping in the other direction though, and the other end (UK) is where the delays would be moreso than departing Australia.

So finding a method (such as freight forwarding, as isamu says) that uses a courier rather than Royal Mail when it gets to the UK would be the key.

I also think that people from overseas who order from Australia would probably give better advice than Australians on this question, because we'd have no experience in ordering internationally from own country.

[koberulz]

Yeah, I've had items sit in customs for a week or two in heavier COVID periods. If similar is going on in the UK, then it hardly matters who you buy from or how they ship it.

[Bourne1886]

Originally Posted by lemonski

I’m in NZ, but since you don’t seem to be interested in my input , maybe I shouldn’t bother telling you the answer to your problem.

You can use ausff (ausff.com.au) - they’re a freight forwarder who will on-ship anything to you in the UK and they have an express shipping option of 3-7 business days, or more reasonably priced standard (5-10 days) and economy (8-14 days) delivery. So you can effectively buy from any Aussie retailer you like and get fast shipping to the UK.

I’ve used them *once* before, I needed a title that JB would ship locally but not internationally, and they were perfectly fine.

You’re welcome

Hi Lemonski,

How does that work in practise? If JB Hi Fi have stopped shipping to the U.K. do they ship to the freight forwarder in Australia and then they in turn ship to the U.K?

I’ve never used a service like that before and I’m curious as to how it works. There are plenty of releases that are exclusive to certain companies and they won’t ship to other countries like Best Buy etc in the USA and this could be the answer to all my problems so to speak.

Cheers.