After almost a month I finally got all my stuff...wooohhoooo..yeahhhh...

no customs no problemos..paid some money to my postman and literally hugged him..hehehe..

This weekend am flying highhh...

cheers..

Ya, better bribe your postmans, They will happily get all your parcels, and wont steal the unregeistered ones. Just keep them happy.

Congrats Atul!! And let me tell you, thats a beginning... you would learn the ropes soon... ask my friend Vinay... he would be opening a HC(India) store soon!!! LOL!!

Quote from: vinay on February 25, 2010, 04:55:51 PM
Ya, better bribe your postmans, They will happily get all your parcels, and wont steal the unregeistered ones. Just keep them happy.

Vinay, That is not Bribe... Thats called TIP (To Insure Promptness) or 'Bakshish' in Hindi, an old Mughal/British tradition which is keeping up till date. In my school days, I used to get loads of Money orders in lieu of PCB/Kit I used to send to Electronics enthusiasts across the country. To ensure that the Postman visits my area after finishing  all delivery so that I can get my post/MO after the coming back to school, I used to 'Bakshish' the old fella. It was nice to see grin on the face of that 55+ years old fella supporting his family. When same thing is demanded 'Forcefully' from the other side, it becomes 'Bribe' !! Thin Red line, ain't?

I am doing the same with the Post man who delivers my packets at office. The guy politely gives me a small 'missed' call indicating I should come a little but early to get my package after paying the Customs duty.
Though not mandatory, its good to keep cordial terms with your postman if you are ardent E-bay buyer.

If a post man is stealing something and you want to prevent that then it becomes bribe.

Anyways I didn't study in IIT and I am not that intelligent not to use those words interchangeably.

And I believe others have a processor on their brains to process those words, w/o too much precision.

Opening an HC store? Dude, I have too many HXT 900 with me as I have ordered MG 14s for both my Helis. You wanna buy? I have 16+ 900s with me. Anyways I have a feeling that the T racer retracts needs 9G servos rather than 5g servos as the retracts are hard, and I have a bad feeling that 5g wont be able to push /pull those retracts. So there goes 3+2 900 servos.

Never bought anything online, but isn't their a concept of postal insurance or some such thing?

Ashutosh

I think if you buy through registered post, its kinda insured. I recently got a 3KG box from HC on which there was a huge hole carved out beautifully by rats at the bangalore ware house.

The post man asked me to open the packet and see at the spot and return back the parcel if something is destroyed. I believe they would send it back to Hongkong and Hongkong post may take care of insurance i believe. Not sure though. Hopefully all was well.

Anybody any ideas?

chk this link for more details regarding refunds and returns

http://hobbycity.com/hobbyking/store/faq.asp

In btwn thanks ujjwanna and vinay..finally got my parcel..yeah I bribed him but moreover it was a bakshiish..I knw that poor guy personally and what I did was out of complete happiness...

cheers..

what all you got?

2200kv motor, lipos, esc, lipo checker and some props..

any plane you building?

I am building blue baby but the setup I ordered for is dedicated to easy star..

QuoteI am doing the same with the Post man who delivers my packets at office. The guy politely gives me a small 'missed' call indicating I should come a little but early to get my package after paying the Customs duty.
Though not mandatory, its good to keep cordial terms with your postman if you are ardent E-bay buyer.

 

Quote from: vinay on February 25, 2010, 05:52:06 PM
The post man asked me to open the packet and see at the spot and return back the parcel if something is destroyed. I believe they would send it back to Hongkong and Hongkong post may take care of insurance i believe. Not sure though. Hopefully all was well.

I Don't even pray  my enemies get into this. If anybody has gone thru IT reimbursement,  they would understand what it is to haggle for ones own money. KISS - keep it small and simple is the mantra ( people with 'processors' should have already understood) to get things smoothly without much hold up.

And you Vinay!! Grrrr!!! blind following you, even I have enough of 9/5g servos that I needn't order coming 2 years !!! Now you are inspiring to buy Metal/Digi!!   

Quote from: ujjwaana on February 25, 2010, 11:26:32 PM
KISS - keep it small and simple is the mantra ( people with 'processors' should have already understood) to get things smoothly without much hold up.

If I had kept a 3KG hardware tools packet KISS and made it 750Grams each instead, then the postal departments shipping costs would have FRENCH KISSED my wallet. Keeping that apart, it can even happen to a 500 Gram parcel none the less as all are stored in the same warehouse is what the postman said, so no meaning in doing that. Hope you got my point . There was another complaint he told me that some rats had even bitten into an expensive silk Saree. Now that would be real pain.

Quote from: ujjwaana on February 25, 2010, 11:26:32 PM
And you Vinay!! Grrrr!!! blind following you, even I have enough of 9/5g servos that I needn't order coming 2 years !!! Now you are inspiring to buy Metal/Digi!!   

Blame that on Ashta, after seeing all the 150 hand built planes at his house , even we thought we can build them easily right? and then we ordered.
Now why blame me?

  150 hand build planes..exagerrated  or real ? wow that means 150 receivers.. .. 

Quote from: atul_pg on February 26, 2010, 07:54:15 AM
150 hand build planes..exagerrated  or real ? wow that means 150 receivers.. ..  

exagerrated? No, Probably more, He showed us 3 Attics filled with depron planes. Probably each attic had 30 to 40 in them all flying/non flying/old deprecated/experimented models. Keeping that aside, his cars are always filled with 7+ planes all the time. Apart from that, his car shed has hell lot of them,
apart from that he is continously builing planes on the top floor of his house completely dedicated to building planes. That HUGE 20X30 room was a depron mess!

And no, that does not mean 150 receivers. If he is flying some models after a long time, then he borrows it from some other planes. He probably may be having 100+ 9gram servos with him on all the planes.

Dont believe me? Ask Ujjwal.

wow..    

Ashta sir you rule..lucky you guys had a chance to go and chk out his stuff...

My wife gets a panic attack when she sees me with the depron sheets   

Quote from: atul_pg on February 26, 2010, 08:09:25 AM
wow..    

Ashta sir you rule..lucky you guys had a chance to go and chk out his stuff...

Believe me, since we asked, even though he had lot of relatives come to his house, he still made time in between that to invite me and ujjwal to his house and showed all his hobby stuff for almost 2 hrs. Gave us lots of tips. Now what more can we ask? except to maiden our hand built planes.

Quote from: atul_pg on February 26, 2010, 08:09:25 AM
My wife gets a panic attack when she sees me with the depron sheets   

Luckily I am 28 and I have another year before I get into the trouble you are in. Till then my Credit Card is purely mine. 

hahaha..hope your credit card stays with you...all the best man...

QuoteLuckily I am 28 and I have another year before I get into the trouble you are in. Till then my Credit Card is purely mine. 

Hell Ya! I testify Vinay and 150 is no exaggeration. Its like Foamie section of HAL(Hindustan Aironautics Ltd), running from a house   That house is a PLANE FACTORY MA!!

And yes, I too share this 'Hardly a year of complete freedom' syndrome with Vinay, and trying to stock up for 2 years of my hobby. Before I get a 'Finance' minister.

Quote from: ujjwaana on February 26, 2010, 10:07:10 AM

And yes, I too share this 'Hardly a year of complete freedom' syndrome with Vinay, and trying to stock up for 2 years of my hobby. Before I get a 'Finance' minister.

And then you will need to 'hide' things in !!!!

Hi guys, i still haven't got the stuff i ordered from tower on the 9th of Feb. It is one month now, does that mean it is lost?

I contacted Tower and they said that if the parcel doesn't reach me by 25th of this month i should contact them again. However they did give me an airway bill number, is there a contact number where i can find out about this? I used Priority Mail International and i am in Mumbai

I want to order some more stuff but now i am skeptical, does this always take so much time?

By the way, i bought myself a HPI Savage X from Mumbai, the dealer over here cut me a good deal. Thanks for all the help i got from RCINDIA members.

Shouldn't the thread be named "How much Customs I would need to pay" instead of "how much customs I Should pay" as if we have any choice and can bargain with customs guys (ahaa... I am referring to the fair and legal way of paying duties).

With so many parcels between me and Vinay, the Customs seems to charge only 20-22% on the invoiced amount. They have not erred to include the shipping amount in the calculation, as it is supposed to be, since most of our packet did not mention the shipping charges. This is what we have inferred with the calculation and are purely our personal experience.
And no, we were not wise enough to go back to customs asking why they have charged less (30-33% as from the HS codes).

Finally curious,
Visit the FPO and you can see the mayhem. The customs not necessarily clear package in strict order of arrival. Size of parcels, origin, amount may govern the priority. Do wait for a while before pressing the SOS button.

i agree with you
and we need to figure it out
and fight for our rights