50% off on Shipping in ishopinternational

Valid on everything , not any particular site . Their online calc has been updated to show lesser shipping cost
Weight less than 10 lbs
 
I have ordered 3D DLP glasses from Amazon US through ishopinternational

So far it has been a good experience. The customer service was quick to respond on phone, no IVR or waiting in queue. They are very fast in giving quote on emails as well.

The shipping charges are also competitive, lesser than Amazon global shipping charges. They gave a discount of fixed Rs.200 on shipping charges for entering HOLIDAYCHEER as the offer code.

[ Somehow free shipping (for >$125) did not work for me on Amazon. There was no such option during checkout. ]

AFAIK IshopInt offers two type of import.

In first method, you can just give them the URL of the product, they will give the exact quote including customs along with an URL to make the payment. Once payment is done, they react very quickly. In my case, within 30 min they purchased the item and its supposedly on the way to their warehouse in US now.

They keep updating us at every stage through email. Quote for the chosen item... Payment successful. Order Placed. Product Purchased. Item received at warehouse. Item shipped to India. Item received in India. Item on the way to home. etc... That's good.

Oh wait. I have not recommended them yet. Lets see how effectively they fulfill the order.

Second method offered by this site, is actually managed at PPObox.com which is almost same as first method except (i) you have to place order yourself and ship it to the given address and (ii) that its a different company. :rolleyes:

IshopInt have just advertised them on their website and they pretend its the same company. But its evident from the fact that you have to register all over again. I am not sure though. Just like alibaba.com they may be having different company names.
 
I have good experience with them as I have ordered Energy Classic 5 from Newegg.

Customer service is good and prompt and even they will apply any discount coupon if offered by websites (we have to mention to them in comments or can inform them over phone).

The shipping charges seem to be a bit higher compared to Borderlinx quote, dont know about SnS.

They have different names ans in Ebay they deal with name i2cworld handling all Global Ebay items.

Discount in shipping charges were valid only during New Year period (maybe 3 days) and there were no coupons to enter but the same is reflected automatically in quote.

Now it is not valid.
 
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How many days did they take for delivery?

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How much you paid for energy classic 5? Is there any extra charge apart from the amount shown on their site using "Calculate your Quote" ?
 
How much you paid for energy classic 5? Is there any extra charge apart from the amount shown on their site using "Calculate your Quote" ?

Instead of calculating the quote online, you can "Request for quote" by giving the link to the product ordering page, which is manually responded by them and supposed to be accurate (full and final).
 
I placed order for a LG BD writer on 04/01. Cost 5.4K. Unlike in previous orders, this time I didn't get any status update emails. So yesterday I had a chat with their online support and they told me that the item has already been shipped through bluedart on 11/01. Probably I will get it today. Bluedart tracking option is very bad.
 
I see many of you have already bought items from this. So i believe its safe to do shopping here. :)
 
Finally received the LG Blu-Ray rewriter. This is bulk supply so there is no bundled software or original LG box pack. The item arrived in double packing which is usual with amazon. Connected the drive to my htpc and Windows8 recognized and installed the drivers even before booting into desktop. Popped in District 9 region free disk, but xbmc didn't play the blu-ray movie. Installed AnyDVD HD and xbmc recognized the disk and started playing without showing menus. XBMC does not support JAVA menus. The playback was very slow. So I tried TMT5 and it worked perfectly. Tried region B LOTR disks and the player showed a warning message that the disk region is not supported. So set the bd region to B in the player and it started playing. I later found that I had forgotten to enable region removal option in AnyDVD HD. Now I have my very own region free BDP.

Build quality is excellent and the drive is very silent. The disk spinning sound can be heard only while seeking. I don't have any blank blu-ray disks, so could not test the burning capacity, but it supports 14X BD write speed . Now need to read sam9s thread regarding BD backups. Already contacted FM 'Krishnendu' for BD disks. He has a wonderful collection of 100+ BDs.

Service of ishopinternational is excellent. I got the drive in 10 days after placing order. Anyone looking for a VFM BD Writer should consider this. For less than 5.4K, nothing comes close to this. The same one is selling for around 7.5-8K in India.

Here is an image of the drive in the antec drive bay.

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Link to the LG drive - Amazon.com: LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter without Software, Black (WH14NS40): Computers & Accessories

Here is link to Asus writer with further 20USD rebate. Amazon.com: ASUS BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS 12X Blu-ray Internal Burner Drive with Disc Encryption - Black - Retail Box: Electronics
 
OT sorry

Baiju,
I believe we can write data / media files on BD disc as a backup? 50GB is quite lot of space. What is the cost of an empty disc (dual layer), any idea?
 
OT sorry

Baiju,
I believe we can write data / media files on BD disc as a backup? 50GB is quite lot of space. What is the cost of an empty disc (dual layer), any idea?

The writer can be used for backing up your precious data. The only problem is that blank disks are very expensive. A single 50GB disk cost around Rs.500/- which means 500GB will cost Rs.5000/-. For that price you can buy a 1 or 2 TB HDD.

The lowest priced disks I could find in ebay - 10 National BD-R 4x Blu-ray 25GB Blank Media Silver Discs NEW | eBay

Costs just 90/- for a piece, but it is 25GB. Most of the blu-ray movies are 50GB.

blu-ray blank | eBay

congrats Baiju,
What is xbmc? what purpose it serves ?

XBMC is a media center application using which you can organize and play your media files. Usually it acts as a front end to HTPC.
 
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Dear Baiju,

Congrats on your new purchase.

You are also lucky to get a good service from ishopinternational. I am one of those unlucky ones and currently the status of my shipment is
unknown. This is more to do with Bluedart as it seems they do not service our area 602101, but service our next street which is 600116.

My Panasonic blu ray player which was booked from Amazon USA on 8th reached India, cleared customs on 13th itself, for the past 5 days both bluedart and Ishopinternational are literally shipping the item among themselves and not to me :mad:

I have also wrote to Bluedart stating that if the item reaches Chennai, I could
come and collect from them at any part of the city but so far no joy.

Spoke to Ishop support and I get a standard reply will call you in
30 minutes after coordinating with the dispatch team for 5 times now and have not even received a callback so far. Chat support of Ishop seems to be slightly better, even inspite of long hold times they provide some update.

From the information so far I got that the dispatch team comes to office only by 1 in the afternoon and seems will straightaway go far a break and can be reached only after 3pm and are once again not reachable after 6pm so literally they are available only for 3 hours.

Bottom line is if everything goes smooth, then like Baiju you could expect a excellent service from Ishop, but if something goes wrong like my case then you could say no follow up\customer service from ishop :sad:.
 
I too had problems with my first purchase as my place doesn't have bluedart service at that time. So ishopinternational (then shopabroadonline) asked me to provide another address and I gave them the address of a forum member who collected it. This is my second purchase and this time I gave my address as bluedart started service here. After tracking bluedart for a few days, I found the status as delivered two days back:sad:. They sent the product to the previous address:mad:.

Bluedart tracking is pathetic. There is no option to know where your parcel is. DTDC and Professional has better tracking systems.
 
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