Guys, my opinion on The Twister Group (www.thetwistergroup.com) FWIW:
I ordered my 128Mb card on the 1st May - they had 40 or so in stock at the time. The stick was $74 (�50) and shipping was $47 (�30). Still cheaper than buying them over here, and they had them in stock. I paid by credit card and was charged the same day.
5 days later they send it to their "international sales office" (as far as I can tell that's Joe Schmoe working from his mum's spare room).
19 days later it arrives at my house, along with a customs charge of �17 ($25).
So I've paid $136 (�97) in total. Not as good a deal as it sounded at first, but hey - at least it finally got here.
I didn't expect overnight delivery - but 19 days!?!? Maybe they pay a Mexican (no offence any Mexicans reading this) $2 per day to do their deliveries.
Really disappointed.
A mate ordered one from www.P800er.com and got it in about a week, with no customs charge (I think their more used to international shipping).
The customs charge is to be expected. P800er get round it by a little trick called "lying" wink
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A mate ordered one from www.P800er.com and got it in about a week, with no customs charge (I think their more used to international shipping).[/quote]
Not in my case. Stupid Fed Ex made sure of that. I ended up paying more than $200 for mine, a while back. :agrue:
if they post it then they stick a customs sticker on it saying goods value $1. if they Fed Ex it, they have to tell Fed Ex the value and you get hit for customs charge. So for the 4 days extra wait, it beats paying �20 extra for Fed Ex + Customs.
I don't know about four days extra, mine only took four days to arrive from when p800er told me it had been sent.
I opted for the airmail option, partly because I thought that I would be much less likely to to pay duty and partly because I wasn't inclined to add to the already high cost.
Airmail and p800er get my vote.
Just got mine today as well from p800er, shipped on 15th via airmail
make sure its sars free hehhe
I ordered mine last Wednesday and got it last Friday allready (with P800er.com and fedex). I think two days is pretty quick! But I hope it's sars free as well :fadein:
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Yes, Air mail + www.p800er.com makes perfect sense. I also opted for air mail when asked which delivery method and was even happier when it arrived after 6 days - and I paid �82 for it!!!