because low value parcels have a slight chance of avoiding customs.... i'd rather pay a fixed amount for shipping, rather than paying customs for no reason....

ah. ohk
Nice.

Is Hobby king OK to order from i mean is it reliable and genuine and where is it located ? how much time does it take through normal and express courier service

And how much much amount of order is OK on which the customs are not applicable?

Plesae reply

Hi AnantSingh,
Yes it is the cheapest and the best hobby store out there. They shipping may take 11days to 30days.
To me it took 13days.
I think its 5000, after which customs are charged. But dont worry about the customs so much.

Quote from: theleabres on March 23, 2013, 04:29:39 PM
http://www.cbec.gov.in/customs/cst2012-13/cst1213-idx.htm

Customs Tariff Chapter 95 pertains to toys.

http://www.cbec.gov.in/customs/cst2012-13/chap-95.pdf

If they consider foam to be a type of plastic, then 10% fee is customary.

10% is only the basic customs duty. Total duty will be around 28.852%

You can calculate the Customs Tariff from the following website
https://www.icegate.gov.in/Webappl/

CTH : 95030030 (Considering as plastics)
description : Model toys.

i think maximum is about 100 USD

Why this prod weight is 0 gms..
I tried adding 10pcs and still the weight is zero..
put one pcs in my cart before ordering Today... 
Lets see what will happen...

Haha,Great. Free shipping for them

anybody have any experience with singapore post  .
HK shipped my order a week ago. the parcel is still not showing any tracking info.

Takes time buddy. Same happened with me. My order now shoes Information Received.
Good luck.

Rahulvyas  thank you very much with the response you gave me.

I wanted Nimh batteries with good capacity like 4.8 V 4200 MaH can you suggest  where i can buy these from here in india?

As i  found such batteries only in tower hobbies US.

Its ok to order such battries  from tower US if it is below 5000???

Order it above 5000 aswell, but you will have to pay a little amount of money.

Why does my tracking info shows that it has gone in to Kolkata's custom department?? There is a custom department in Delhi(where I live)! 
Confusing.

@rahul.... it's india.. dont question XD  
BTW mine reads :-

4/10/2013 1:43:00 PM   INDIA   MUMBAI FOREIGN POST OFFICE   Record item customs information (Inb)   
Retention reason : Articles importation subject to restrictions import- license
4/10/2013 1:43:00 PM   INDIA   MUMBAI FOREIGN POST OFFICE   Return item from customs (Inb)   
4/10/2013 3:20:00 PM   INDIA   MUMBAI FOREIGN POST OFFICE   Send item to domestic location (Inb)

what is that Retention business???   

Actually i have ordered many stuffs from hobbyking, Now i am just a gold member and prices of many items are higher than that when i am not logged in...
Ex: hobbyking 30A esc shows 8.99$ and when signed in its showing 9.99$
Anybody having the same issue..?

Why they are increasing price like this...? 

Arun, i think the increament in price is due to the warehouse difference... I myself faced the same problem while ordering the EPP dragonfly. later i found that the australian warehouse had much higher price than hongkong one..

Abhay not really... What i do now is added the stuufs in to cart befor logging in and proceed then logged in afterwards now the price is 8.99$ But when i check after logging in it is 9.99$..
Why they are doing like this?

Hmm arun can you give me the link of the product let me chk fr u.

Arun i added the product in my cart. It costed me 8.99$ when logged in. I checked out and continued till the last step.I dodnt payed offcourse , but there was no difference in cost. I am still wondering why its happenng to you ..

the product in the cart was:
http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=15205

I suggest you to just have a chat with HK guys and lets know what they say..

@ satya its the same hk 30a esc..
And I chatted with hk they was telling simple reasons for that like the price differ day by day and soon on.. anyway what I done was I added them into cart and then logged in now its 8.99$ only but if I try to add one more it is updated to 9.99$...

I lost 4$ for my previous order... I thought the price was increased while ordering...
Everyone check the price before and after login and make sure its correct before placing any order...



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Quote from: abhay on April 17, 2013, 11:55:11 AM

the product in the cart was:
http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=15205

Abhay  yes it is the same I mentioned...
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Quote from: sanjayrai55 on March 01, 2013, 07:46:26 PM
1. We are a group of modellers, of various means and resource, but all of us are pretty savvy and not fools

2. We have significant joint purchasing power, though in HK's book it is not much. Therefore a representation to HK may well be ignored.

3. We have another option: appoint a CNF Agent, club our orders either say fortnightly, or when a certain weight/volume/value is reached, get godown delivery from HK, and airfreight to India, followed by local courier

What ever Sanjayrai has said needs to be given serious consideration!! We all are facing issues in importing  stuff and all are getting looted!. Our money value is less compared to the people that earn dollars and hence a smart move is needed in the form of collaboration.
United we stand, divided we fall!

I am trying to get items from HK could you let me know which shipping i should choose and what might be the customs for the same if any idea.

EMS Express (INDIA) 1000g - 1999g  $52.41
Air Parcel (INDIA) 1500g - 1999g  $28.25
International (Registered) Air Mail 2kg  $29.79

Registered Air Mail is slow but good.

EMS is NO anytime.

No idea about air parcel.