Help for buy a lens in Glasgow South Lanarkshire

I wish buy a lens in Glasgow South Lanarkshire , there is someone that can help me? The seller don't want to ship to Italy , I can pay someone that buy the lens and can ship to me.
Please send me a pm .

I have heard that some sellers on ebay won't send to Italy as there is supposedly a higher than average problem with goods getting stuck/lost in customs.


What would you expect to happen if your goods did not arrive from a forum member here ?

This has been going on now for some time I have a son inlaw in Italy he waits till he get's back to the UK for his birthday/xmas presents as he said things just don't turn up, or if they do they have been opened.

My sister lives in Rome and Birthday Cards sent from here can take
2-3 weeks at times via airmail and that's to the Capital City.

shim

... and that's the problem ... Just kidding, but most likely the postal service is less efficient in Rome, Milan, Turin, etc. than in small towns.

I live in Pise and in the last 4 years I bought almost 30 items from UK (lenses, cameras and related accessories) and never had shipping problems. Airmail parcels always arrived within 10-14 days (most of them within a week).

The most reliable/affordable service for sending goods to Italy is Royal Mail airmail international signed for (prices are online, additional insurance is quite cheap and recommended for high value items). That's because packets are delivered by "Poste Italiane" (the actual national mail service) not by SDA (an unreliable company which they outsourced express delivery services). In the past packets that were expected to be signed on delivery actually didn't but they eventually fixed the problem so, nowadays, if the postman doesn't find you at home, he leaves a message and you can collect the parcel at the post office.

As usual the buyer should assume all the risks of shipping provided the items are well packed . A couple of times I received lenses sent into an envelope (!!), just wrapped with little foam. I was luck because they both arrived undamaged but the packaging was definitively unappropriate for overseas shipping... A final suggestion is to seal the packets with plenty of sellotape

Nobody can help me, the auction ends tomorrow, it is an adaptall lens tamron.

I sent a PM asking what you required, you did not answer.
Best of luck with your auction.

Excuse me I don't remember to answer to your pm. I have just send a pm to you , I hope that if you have asked me the auction on ebay then you can win this and then send me the lens. I wrote to you the price that I wish pay.

Thanks for the info on the Italian postal service mbertagnini
Very interesting.

shim

Mike-P please answer me I have seen that you have already readden my pm the auction end this afternoon

Sorry but I can't help you with that auction, the item you are interested in has been in my watch list for a few days now and lets just say there would be a conflict of interest.

For all the auction is this:
http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=17033...
If someone can help me I must pay until 400 euro for this please send me a pm who can help me.
But excuse me Mike-P don't you have buied the same here:
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=137209

Please don't create more than one thread for the same item. This is very confusing.

If anyone wanted to help you they would need to consider very carefully what would happen if the lens went astray. There is good reason perhaps why eBay sellers often will not ship to Italy as there may be a higher than average number of missing parcels in the Italian postal system.

If I were not interested in the lens myself I would have been happy to send it to Italy. Personally I have never had a problem with items going missing when sending there but obviously as I am bidding myself it would be a bit daft.

I am sorry that nobody of this forum can aid me to buy this lens , I will obviously pay the price that I wish bid (400 euro) to who wins the auction for me at the price that i want (if it is lower at the end better for me...)and isn't interested to the lens.
A great part of this forum live in uk and could aid me.