railsquid Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Happy with my 4 and 6 car sets, anything much longer gets tedious to get out of the box and put on the track. Mind you I can go and see the real thing any time I want :D 2 Link to comment
medusa Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Hm, I received a letter from the customs office to declare what secret stuff I've bought in Japan.... :/ 1 Link to comment
TheNicofabi Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Hm, I received a letter from the customs office to declare what secret stuff I've bought in Japan.... :/ Means you print out your Paypal Bill and hand that over... Link to comment
ToniBabelony Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Oh Germany and your everlasting visits to the customs office... How I don't miss that xD 1 Link to comment
Suica Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Hm, I received a letter from the customs office to declare what secret stuff I've bought in Japan.... :/ I 'love' when that happens. Especially when the outside of the package actually contained all invoices to process it through customs. Thanks, Zoll FRA. Link to comment
IST Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Oh Germany and your everlasting visits to the customs office... How I don't miss that xD Same situation is here, but since 2-3 years they accept documents via e-mail, so we do not have to go to the customs office personally. Link to comment
railsquid Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Bless Japan, you can pay the postperson on the comfort of your own doorstep. Link to comment
Yavianice Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 In Germany too. Unless you aren't home. In my case I have to travel for 30 minutes one way and spend 20 euro to go to the nearest customs office. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment
railsquid Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 In Japan they put a note in your letterbox with a number to call for redelivery at your convenience :D Come to think of it I remember trailing out to the Zollamt in Tempelhof once many years ago, albeit not for anything railway-related. 1 Link to comment
Suica Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) I just paid AmiAmi for a certain Tomix pre-order. Zollamt in Tempelhof My condolences... Edited January 31, 2017 by Suica 1 Link to comment
nah00 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Hm, I received a letter from the customs office to declare what secret stuff I've bought in Japan.... :/ In the US they just rip the box open and then it sits in Jamaica, New York for a week. I guess they though the chlorine tank cars I ordered contained real chlorine... 3 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Amazingly I've never had a package held by us customs that they have contacted me about or opened or even marked. Jeff Link to comment
Kiha66 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Testing the waters of Buyee again, I ordered a kato EF65 500 form. Model 3017, so it appears to be an older version, but it seems to come with knuckle couplers and was only 2300 yen! It should go well with my 20 series sakura blue train, at least until I can order the newer kato ef65s and ef66 that's coming out soon. Link to comment
locidm Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Anyone heard from modeltrainplus about the girls and panzer train set that was released today? Link to comment
Suica Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I was writing with Nariichi-san last week. He said the set will arrive in his store a few days after release. Link to comment
katoftw Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 The release dates set by the manufacturers are the dates the product departs the manufacturers warehouse/factory. So retailers normally get them late that same day or the day after. So you need to allow time for this from the retailer before they make contact with out. Link to comment
locidm Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Thank you that's what I had suspected. :) kinda excited about this release after seeing photos of the box on hobbysearch. Link to comment
medusa Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Freed from the claws of customs. BTW, is it only in Cologne that the customs office is exactly as far from the center of the city as is possible at all by geometry? And, you were right. It *was* declared correctly on the outside.... 2 Link to comment
ToniBabelony Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Freed from the claws of customs. customs.png BTW, is it only in Cologne that the customs office is exactly as far from the center of the city as is possible at all by geometry? Nope, Bonn same thing. All the way on the other side of friggin' town (almost in Bad Godesberg IIRC). Link to comment
Suica Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 BTW, is it only in Cologne that the customs office is exactly as far from the center of the city as is possible at all by geometry? And, you were right. It *was* declared correctly on the outside.... In Berlin it used to be in the city center. Bad for people like me who live on the outer edge. Even though it was in the center you were in for a considerable walk when using public transport. Going there by car was an equally bad idea. Being the only import customs office in Berlin handling mail it was accordingly busy and overcrowded. Luckily they learned and opened branches. Even more lucky for me, the North-East branch office is only 3 km away. Link to comment
TheNicofabi Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) BTW, is it only in Cologne that the customs office is exactly as far from the center of the city as is possible at all by geometry? And, you were right. It *was* declared correctly on the outside.... In the outer parts of lil' Brandenburg aswell... but I thankfully live on that side so it isnt far for me... so yeah... same distance here as Suica Only happened to me once so far where they litteraly didnt think of reading i feel like... Edited January 31, 2017 by TheNicofabi Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Another parcel dropped off from Ami, using DHL function that was delivered on 29th Jan, which is not only the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, it is also a Sunday! Amazing... Seriously, this crashes EMS flat on... If it was EMS, it probably wont be delivered on a holiday nor a Sunday... The box is wrapped in DHL packaging! The plain Ami box lies below... The same Ami postcards (having quite a number of these now...) Only small items... Oh that exciting... First, this is a really cute train... The usual Tomytec all island buses... And officially my first Kyushu train *again* This is really... beautiful! The 885 series 'Around the Kyushu' in all its beauty... This truly is nice, and no regrets going into the Southern region for this! That Around the Kyushu logo ... I have officially stepped into Kyushu ..... 5 Link to comment
locidm Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I just sprung for the 885 too, so beautiful.......and it will also be my first Kyushu train; the 787 will be my second. :D Link to comment
Yavianice Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Another parcel dropped off from Ami, using DHL function that was delivered on 29th Jan, which is not only the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, it is also a Sunday! Amazing... Seriously, this crashes EMS flat on... If it was EMS, it probably wont be delivered on a holiday nor a Sunday... I have officially stepped into Kyushu ..... How does EMS compare to DHL in terms of delivery time vs price then? Also, what is the difference between the old and the new 885 that KATO makes? (As I am thinking of getting the same one) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 (edited) How does EMS compare to DHL in terms of delivery time vs price then? Also, what is the difference between the old and the new 885 that KATO makes? (As I am thinking of getting the same one) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk As an easy comparison, EMS charged me 2400 yen and DHL charged me 1900 yen as quoted by Ami for this parcel. Assuming that both EMS and DHL will ship the parcel on the 27th. (DHL shipped it out of Japan on the 27th) Usually, EMS will take 2-3 days, minus public holidays and Sundays. That means, if the parcel arrives in Singapore on a public holiday or Sunday, it will still have to wait till Monday or sometimes even Tuesday for the parcel to actually reach me.. DHL quoted me the ETA for the parcel as 31st Jan, but I receive an email and a SMS on 29th telling me that the parcel will arrive at my place today (29th) before 6pm... That's amazingly fast considering 29th is both a public holiday and a Sunday! It would also seem that through tracking, the parcel just arrived in Singapore the night before 28th (which was also a public holiday) and it was dispatched the next day. That means, in this situation/ instance, it would seem EMS would have delivered the parcel on 31st, the next working day as 30th is also a public holiday (fastest) or even today, 1st Feb. That would show that EMS was outperformed by DHL both in terms of pricing and speed this time... As for the difference between the old and new 885, i'm afraid I cant tell you more on this as I don't have the older 885... :( Edited February 1, 2017 by JR 500系 Link to comment
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