A Guy from Shanghai
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FYI full diclosure on charges -Originally Posted by Holdfast
On a pair being shipped to the US today (with full £175 insurance) cost = £24.57. Packaging about 60p for a large size mailbag (though some boxes I've done in brown wrapping paper instead), paypal fees on the £30 payment is about £1.50. Do the sums yourself.
As I said, I'll be lucky to get a couple of coffees & muffins out of the whole lot. And considering the time it's taking me to repack/relabel and my usual hourly rate if I was working... yes, you are indeed completely wrong and this is certainly not being done for the money.
Anyway, it's now Thursday lunchtime over here so as I said earlier, UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY PM'ED ME, NO MORE PROXY ORDERS FROM NOW ON.
PS. It's a Bank Holiday weekend here and I will be out of town, so from Saturday, I won't receive parcels or be able to send them out until the following Tuesday at the earliest. Don't worry, the local Post Office know me very well and will hold anything that arrives on Saturday itself safe & sound for me to get on Tuesday.
PPS. If I'd really wanted to make money doing this, I certainly wouldn't have pZlayed proxy games. I would have ordered 30 pairs in different styles and sizes at £175 each to try to clear out as much of KG's stock as possible, and gradually put them onto eBay as KG's stock in that size/style emptied, with a starting price each of £149.99 to get interest and early bidders. I estimate I'd have made between £50-75 profit on each. I thought about doing it, in fact.
Currently, a forum memeber is kind enough to do the proxy for me.
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Question for you guys in US who received shoes from another gracious gentleman Holdfast: Did any of you got hammered on duties?
Holdfast, I read you put full insurance of 175 pound for each pair. How much did you declare on the custom form?
