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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 09:07 AM
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Im about to buy some essensials to my 97 C5. Is there a recomended Ebay user/Store that you wold recomend? I need fast delivery to Seattle :-). A friend will bring some stuff to Philippines for me... Corvettes are not common here by far, so i need to shop things online that i need...

Btw have you guys ever heard if shops send by "Balikbayan box"? Its way cheaper and less taxes then regular post witch gives you over 100% taxes here...
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by RCS
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Im about to buy some essensials to my 97 C5. Is there a recomended Ebay user/Store that you wold recomend? I need fast delivery to Seattle :-). A friend will bring some stuff to Philippines for me... Corvettes are not common here by far, so i need to shop things online that i need...

Btw have you guys ever heard if shops send by "Balikbayan box"? Its way cheaper and less taxes then regular post witch gives you over 100% taxes here...
My wife is from the Philippines and we have a lot of experience shipping. Good luck.
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 11:59 AM
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I assume you live in the US not Philippines? What Balikbayan company do you recomend there? What size boxes do they have? I was hoping to get a catback exhaust system among other things delivered here...
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by RCS
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Im about to buy some essensials to my 97 C5. Is there a recomended Ebay user/Store that you wold recomend? I need fast delivery to Seattle :-). A friend will bring some stuff to Philippines for me... Corvettes are not common here by far, so i need to shop things online that i need...

Btw have you guys ever heard if shops send by "Balikbayan box"? Its way cheaper and less taxes then regular post witch gives you over 100% taxes here...
My dad runs an ebay business and tells me that there is now an Ebay International Shipping center, where the seller ships the item to an Ebay warehouse, and Ebay handles the international shipping. He says that as a seller, he doesn't even see where the package is shipped to or how much it costs. The shipping is between Ebay and the buyer.

I believe this is a new service this year, but should help making international shipments more reliable.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/shipping-globally.html
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Old Oct 24, 2014 | 07:32 PM
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You should also check out the forum vendors. They pay to keep this forum running.
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Old Nov 8, 2014 | 08:51 AM
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I tried the forums shop but that wount work unfortunetly. I tried to order but wount be able to pay by visa then ship to a friend in Seattle. A guy there tried to make a paypal request but its to late now so ill order later.

I see Amazon also have some stuff....

i need to get rims in US shipped by balikbayan. Turns out i cant get rims for it in philippines... i like deep rims
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Old Nov 8, 2014 | 03:49 PM
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You should also check out the forum vendors. They pay to keep this forum running.
not completely true, they pay to keep the owners of the site making money

running a net site these days is fairly cheap
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