kozersky
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posted on April 5, 2007 08:56:58 PM new
Check out this sale. A sale to China. Which address would you use?
PayPal Address -
Lim Joo Mua
TC Guan Jian Wei. No 500, Nan Che Zhan Road.
Shanghai Fire Safety Bureaus.
Whampoa District., Shanghai
200011. China
Singapore
Vendio Address -
LTC GUAN JIAN WEI
No 500, Nan Che Zhan Road.
Shanghai Fire Safety Bureaus.
Whampoa District. Shanghai 200011
China
ebay Address -
John Lim Joomua
Address: ??????????????280?2??(200335)
Telephone:
I have emailed him everyday since Sunday, included ebay messages, no reply.
I really can't use the ebay address. The last time I checked, Singapore was not part of China, so I'm left with a Vendio address, which may, or may not, be wrong.
Which one would you use?
[ edited by kozersky on Apr 5, 2007 08:59 PM ]
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buyhigh
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posted on April 5, 2007 09:06:05 PM new
I myself would leave off the Singapore. The 200011 is the "zip code" for Shanghai China and I am certain that ends the address. Singapore is a separate country as you state and I think was once part of Malaysia.
buyhigh
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Roadsmith
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posted on April 5, 2007 09:17:41 PM new
I agree. And the TC might mean "care of" someone else in that first address.
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hwahwa
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posted on April 5, 2007 09:20:50 PM new
I agree,the paypal not Vendio address is the one I would use,whampoa is a famous area of Shanghai,it stands for the yellow patch of land by the shallow water,it is now very commercial.
I dont know where Singapore comes from?The Iindonesians when they were scamming on Yahoo shopping will claim they are in Singapore and it turns out that the Singapore post office will recognise ID on the second last line of the address as Indonesia and forward it to Indonesia,not always but sometimes they do this as a courtesy.
But no way will Singapore reroute your package to China unless it is shipped UPS or Fed Exp,then they will look it up and reroute it and send you a bill.
How are you shipping the item?/
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[ edited by hwahwa on Apr 5, 2007 09:36 PM ]
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on April 5, 2007 09:25:13 PM new
Koz,
Do you use the Universal Postal Union's site at all for international addresses? It's saved me several times to help me understand the proper formatting and what to put on what line - in some cases.
Here's the link if anyone needs it:
http://tinyurl.com/676rl
Wayne
Never explain -- Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard
[ edited by TheFamilyBiz on Apr 5, 2007 09:26 PM ]
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kozersky
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posted on April 5, 2007 09:35:41 PM new
That is a real ebay address. Can you imagine that ebay accepted such an address?
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LtRay
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posted on April 5, 2007 10:41:25 PM new
The ebay address was probably originally enter on the China site and did not translate properly.
I have had good luck shipping to China but have to admit there is something about Shanghai that always gave me the willies.
If this is a Paypal order, I would be not ship unless the package is insured. The good news is that U-pic does insure to China.
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kozersky
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posted on April 5, 2007 10:45:00 PM new
I use U-Pic on all my shipments. The cost is included in the s/h.
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agitprop
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posted on April 6, 2007 03:25:36 AM new
kozersky wrote: Check out this sale. A sale to China. Which address would you use?
Neither. I wouldn't ship if paid by PayPal as that address is obviously bogus. (This was a rhetorical question wasn't it?)
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hwahwa
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posted on April 6, 2007 06:55:14 AM new
His name is John Lim Joo Mua,he wants you to send his package to Shanghai Fire Bureaus in Whampoa,Shanghai,China.
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pixiamom
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posted on April 6, 2007 07:09:37 AM new
My sales to China often show an eBay address filled with question marks. I assume they have non-western characters in them that eBay can't handle.
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agitprop
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posted on April 6, 2007 03:25:59 PM new
pixiamom wrote: My sales to China often show an eBay address filled with question marks. I assume they have non-western characters in them that eBay can't handle.
Nope. Problem lies with your computer's browser and/or OS not supporting two-byte characters or unicode. My ancient Mac handles Chinese (both kinds), Korean, Japanese, etc. without problem.
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pixiamom
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posted on April 6, 2007 03:39:10 PM new
I can check the option to include those characters in XP but I chose not to - I have enough trouble with western languages!
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classicrock000
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posted on April 6, 2007 04:10:38 PM new
"I have had good luck shipping to China but have to admit there is something about Shanghai that always gave me the willies"
Marlene Dietrich took the Shanghai Express and didnt like it either
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If you dont want to hear the truth....dont ask the question.
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merrie
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posted on April 6, 2007 05:50:01 PM new
I have an address in China once that said, "3rd Block from corner of ....."
I am not kidding, it want on for about 6 lines. It must have arrived in the right place because I got ++ feedback.
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agitprop
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posted on April 6, 2007 07:33:19 PM new
Shanghai 200011, China, Singapore
Am I the only one wondering why anyone (let alone kozersky) is willing to suspend disbelief and ship to an obviously bogus PayPal address?
Last time I was in Shanghai it was still at the mouth of the Yangshe river, and not perched on the end of a causeway off the tip of Malaysia.
Not to mention zero PayPal Seller Protection for this transaction, etc...
p.s. I'm happy to ship to both Chinas (PRC and Taiwan) but only if they pay into my HSBC bank account in their country (in Yuan or NT$ respectively).
"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." - George Orwell
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hwahwa
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posted on April 6, 2007 08:47:09 PM new
On yahoo shopping,you see country mix up all the time,they pull down the country tab and cant find their country ,so they just choose the 'next best thing'.
Say Nigerian cant find Nigeria so they choose Norway.Indonesian cant find Indonesia,so they choose Singapore.
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kozersky
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posted on April 7, 2007 01:52:38 PM new
Thanks for everyone's help. I mailed with
Airmail - U-PIc Insured. Now I'll just hold my breath. The value is small, so not much worry about loss. The language barrier is the problem. I usually do not have this much of a problem when shipping to China.
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