Buying stuff online

[luq]

I was wondering what stuff can you buy from the net to sri lanka? how much duty will they charge when they arrive here? Can u buy flash drives and hard disks and other similar stuff?

 

[kosandpol]

Several had posted here that they bought similar stuff from ebay. If you're not going buy bulk quantities, you should be able to get them with out any taxes (for flash drives and hard disks )

 

[~v3n0m~]

I have bought some stuff online due to the damn high price in SL market!!!! anyway, shipping will take more than the product price if you gonna get things like flash drives. or you'll have to wait maybe a month of 1 1/2 to get the thing if you use the normal postal service.

and, always go for a genuine, well-known seller. like amazon. there are a lot of scams going on!!!!

 

[luq]

I have bought some stuff online due to the damn high price in SL market!!!! anyway, shipping will take more than the product price if you gonna get things like flash drives. or you'll have to wait maybe a month of 1 1/2 to get the thing if you use the normal postal service.

and, always go for a genuine, well-known seller. like amazon. there are a lot of scams going on!!!!

will we have to pay any duty or something once it gets here for stuff like flash drives? so shipping will cost more than the product only if we get it via some special post, will normal post which takes a month or more as you mentioned cost anything as well?

 

[~v3n0m~]

will we have to pay any duty or something once it gets here for stuff like flash drives? so shipping will cost more than the product only if we get it via some special post, will normal post which takes a month or more as you mentioned cost anything as well?

usually dealers in amazon will use DHL,Fedex etc to ship their products. maybe it will take around two weeks to deliver. Maybe you will be able to ask them to ship goods in a specific shipping methods if you want. I bought a monitor some times ago, and they were about to ship it via some other postal service. I mailed them to ship using the normal postal service and they did as i asked. I had to pay some amount to get it released from the sl gov authority (i dnt knw what it is, i got a mail saying i have recieved a package and I have to pay **** of RS to release it) like that

 

[luq]

would it be possible to mention how much it was? im trying to figure if its cheaper to buy it online with the shipping cost+price of product+tax or buy it off unity plaza here .

 

[luq]

bump!