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Another ezbuy fail – eBay forwarding

March 7, 2019 by yenkai 2 Comments

Update: Not sure what happened, but i don’t get that error message anymore. So my post below does not apply anymore, and yes, i’m back to using ezbuy for USA forwarding. I have used ezbuy to forward eBay purchases from the US countless times, but when i tried to checkout my cart today, i encountered … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: ezbuy, Parcel Forwarding

Ezbuy ship-for-me is down again

October 29, 2018 by yenkai 2 Comments

Ezbuy has been trying to get back onto shipping Taobao goods again, and the strategy they employed of late is to change the forwarding address frequently, plus, using funny looking addresses. The most recent forwarding address is 阳光海鲜大排档转凤岗韵达网点转xxx (where xxx is your user id). That’s the name of a restaurant if you’re not well versed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: ezbuy, Parcel Forwarding, Taobao

Ezbuy hits another wall

July 9, 2018 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Apparently, Ezbuy is now blocked from forwarding Amazon purchases (for selected items). I turn to vPost for now, but i hope Ezbuy will be back in action (Update: i shipped another Amazon order to ezbuy warehouse and it worked). I believe they’re still the cheapest around. Related posts: Amazon product recommendation – Christmas gifts for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: Amazon, ezbuy, Parcel Forwarding

Shopback ❤ ezbuy

June 23, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Saw something familiar in the Shopback mailer today – ezbuy! 6% cashback for Prime, buy-for-me and ship-for-me (8% during the current 2 days promotion which you’ll likely miss out on unless you happen to have something in their China warehouses right now, or you’re planning to buy something from Taobao right now). I don’t know when … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: ezbuy, Rebates, Shopback

Taobao product recommendation – Airfryer

April 12, 2016 by yenkai 2 Comments

I’ve debated with myself over the need to get an Airfryer for a long time, since i generally don’t eat deep fried stuff much, and knowing that an Airfryer is nothing but a mini oven with a turbo fan, but all along, I’ve pictured a scene in mind – eating home-made cheese fries with fried chicken wings … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: ezbuy, Product Recommendation, Review, Taobao

Qoo10 product recommendation – mobile phone

March 27, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Gone are the days when you had to rely on the Telco to offer you handsets at a discounted prices when you sign on a contract with them. Now that Telcos are forced to slash prices due to competition, it is even more so, because their margin doesn’t allow them to dangle handsets to lure … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: ezbuy, Product Recommendation, Qoo10

Making sense of Taobao shipping options

March 20, 2016 by yenkai 73 Comments

Note: this post is from 2016. Please read my updated posting about Taobao shipping. To a newbie, i think Taobao shipping options is too hard to comprehend. To simplify things, Taobao has come up with Taobao Global Direct Shipping, which probably works well for newbies. In this posting, i discuss the pros and cons of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: ezbuy, Parcel Forwarding, Taobao

Sourcing for coffee beans

March 11, 2016 by yenkai Leave a Comment

Some time back i wrote about buying coffee beans on Amazon. Well, if you did a little more homework, you would have realized that, unless you’re buying coffee beans sold by Amazon themselves, buying on Amazon might mean paying a premium over the seller’s actual pricing to cover the transaction fee Amazon charges the seller. Some of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: 65daigou, Amazon, Coffee, ezbuy

READ THIS! Important tip on ezbuy (65daigou) sea freight shipment

February 27, 2016 by yenkai 81 Comments

All along, i assumed that sea freight shipment is the cheapest way to ship your Taobao stuff from China. If you’re shipping one cubic metre (usually with allowance of up to 500kg) of stuff, that is confirmed the case. If you are using 65daigou however, it may not be the case. The shipping rate for under … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spend-thrift Tagged: 65daigou, ezbuy, Taobao

How to ship the Anova Precision Cooker to Singapore

February 27, 2016 by yenkai 4 Comments

When it comes to cooking meat, conventional methods are difficult to master, since, with conventional sources of heat, you can easily overcook areas near the surface while the inside remains undercooked. Sous vide (pronounced soo-veed) attempts to solve this problem. Until recently, Sous Vide equipment was mostly priced out of reach of the general public. I still remember reading an … [Read more…]

Posted in: Eat/Drink, Spend-thrift Tagged: 65daigou, ezbuy, Sous Vide
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