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Master Geek

#3148015 16-Oct-2023 10:20

neb:
richms:

Got this pointless clock thing

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004878810565.html

OK, you win the prize for finding the most pointless and annoying electronic bling on Aliexpress.

And yet I MUST HAVE IT xD

SirHumphreyAppleby

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#3151042 22-Oct-2023 13:53

I'd like to post about something arriving (okay, bolts, nuts and PoE extenders aren't interesting), but after worrying about my package being shipped by slow post, it was combined with other orders and shipped via AliExpress Standard Shipping. Now it's listed as "Failed to clear at import customs".

Hopefully that's just AliExpress speak for pending MPI checks. Do MPI not work on long weekends?

I guess it will work itself out. If not, it looks like I'm back to wondering if it'll be here by the time I need it or if I'll have to place another order.

pih

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#3152932 27-Oct-2023 23:59

Replacement shower hose: a little on the lightweight side but it was 1/3 the price of Bunnings and it arrived to my rural address in record time: 6 days!

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005096696305.html

FIFO

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#3156627 6-Nov-2023 11:08

Got two of these - $15 including shipping, arrived in a week.

Works just fine to replace RIB gate controls, locally priced at $99 each!

TechnoGuy001

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#3156677 6-Nov-2023 13:51

SirHumphreyAppleby:

I'd like to post about something arriving (okay, bolts, nuts and PoE extenders aren't interesting), but after worrying about my package being shipped by slow post, it was combined with other orders and shipped via AliExpress Standard Shipping. Now it's listed as "Failed to clear at import customs".

Hopefully that's just AliExpress speak for pending MPI checks. Do MPI not work on long weekends?

I guess it will work itself out. If not, it looks like I'm back to wondering if it'll be here by the time I need it or if I'll have to place another order.

Probs way late, but often Ali used NZ Post as there last mile courier. Try sticking the tracking number in NZ Posts tracking site, often it works, and will give me details on the MPI issue. (usually, as you say, it solves itself in a few days)

Anyway, this is what I got today;

Ali has this weird 3+ 1.99USD~ each thing going on, found some decent branded stuff in there at an ok price. Most of there offers are trash though. But shipping was fast (ordered 28th Oct).

Oh, $22 for the lot, landed.

SirHumphreyAppleby

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#3156678 6-Nov-2023 13:56

TechnoGuy001:

Probs way late, but often Ali used NZ Post as there last mile courier. Try sticking the tracking number in NZ Posts tracking site, often it works, and will give me details on the MPI issue. (usually, as you say, it solves itself in a few days)

The tracking only said MPI needed more info, so I submitted it despite the fact it almost certainly wasn't necessary. Turned up about a week late.

TechnoGuy001

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#3156684 6-Nov-2023 14:06

The seller probably incorrectly listed what was in your parcel, and something triggered MPI and thus weren't sure what was in it.

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richms

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#3156712 6-Nov-2023 15:15

TechnoGuy001:

Anyway, this is what I got today;

Ali has this weird 3+ 1.99USD~ each thing going on, found some decent branded stuff in there at an ok price. Most of there offers are trash though. But shipping was fast (ordered 28th Oct).

Oh, $22 for the lot, landed.

They do $1.79 for the first 3 days of the month.

I have noticed that many of the things that are 3.99 US are actually cheaper in the normal choice store. Its all quite difficult sometimes on there.

Richard rich.ms

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#3157155 8-Nov-2023 00:47

I had a Ryzen 3900 turn up over the weekend. I had the motherboard with a 2600 in it so it was a cheapish (NZ$285) upgrade for the Unraid server to have plent of cores/threads to play around with more VMs.

I've got a orphaned 2600 now but what to do?

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#3163019 23-Nov-2023 19:39

Singles day buy up

richms

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#3163145 24-Nov-2023 10:34

I have the dreaded yellow card in the PO Box so it will be a saturday morning trip up to it to see whats too big for the parcel lockers or if its just too much stuff.

Mine has mainly been more of the US$1.99-3.99 type things that you get up to 10 of per order. Lots of tuya bluetooth lightbulbs as that plus the gateway works around the device limit in one house in tuya. But although they all show the same in the app, the different vendors lamps are very different for brightness and RGB matching so I will have to figure out which was what (kept the boxes and lamps together from the last lot) and get more so that I can have matching ones in the same fittings.

Richard rich.ms