Archive for the ‘Shipping’ Category
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Lately, as I mentioned, I visited tens of online stores that sell laptop bags. It is most unfortunately that none of these that I visited and that have the laptop backpack that I would like to buy offer international shipping. I wonder if they know how much more business they ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
What pisses me off sometimes is that I have to keep repeating to my Buyers to send me their complete shipping details numerous times and that will only delay shipping their packages out.
You know, in my invoices, I have already mentioned that I require complete shipping details, including full name ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I read about a few cases where auction winners were surprised when they realised that their winning items will be shipped from outside of Malaysia. What a shock it is for them to realise a little too late upon being slapped with an import tax. This is especially when they ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Further to my post a few days ago, Shipping Common Sense, on the flip side, there are quite a handful of Sellers who try to get the maximum out of Shipping. It's common sense that Shipping rates are FIXED.
But then these Sellers try to justify that high "shipping" with handling ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Do you know what amuses me? It is when buyers come to my store to buy something and they always, ALWAYS select the cheapest shipping mode even when the items will never in a hundred years be able to fit into that kind of packaging. I know they want to ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Last month, I wanted to send out some documents overseas and decided on DHL. Yes, the documents were so important that I trusted DHL only. So, I went online, found their website and called up their Customer Service line.
I got the quote for my package and drove 30 minutes ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Do you remember the time when Johor was thoroughly flooded? That was only one of recent case that happened in Malaysia that caused late delivery in packages. Do people want their packages to arrive a little late or all wet and spoilt?
Well, I have got news that the weather hasn't ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Recently, an issue came up where someone who lost a parcel through Poslaju was asked by his Seller to make a claim from Poslaju. Actually, the Seller has shrugged his responsibility of making the claim of a lost package due to the round around he is bound to face.
If the ...
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Today, for the first time since I ventured into e-trading in end of 2004, the Poslaju network is offline. I do not know if it's city wide, state wide or nationwide, but the point is, I could not ship out my Poslaju packages.
For the past 2.5 years since I started ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Pos Malaysia has started to enforce Poslaju shipping rates according to weight AS WELL AS by the volume. This actually has been in place a long time like any other private courier company but it is only recently that Pos Malaysia is enforcing it.
If your parcel dimension, whether the length, width ...
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