Freight Forwarding Company?

[DubSteve]

Hi Guys,

Anyone know of any freight forwarding company from the US I can use?

Time at the moment has eluded me so this is why I am posting here.

Cheers

Steve

[gareth_oau]

www.hopshopgo.com FTW

[DubSteve]

I tried them but how do you get something from a supplier to there destination I couldnt see it on there website

[gareth_oau]

sortof,, but some of the US brands have agency agreements with distributors in Oz, and the US retailers are not permitted to export those brands to Oz, hence the need for freight-forwarders.

I've used shipito in the past and their service was good, but I had to stop using them because the retailers would recognise that shipitto was an agent and then refuse to ship to them.

Fortunately my address at HSG is more discrete and I seem to be getting away with it (but I suspect its only a metter of time)

[Ben J]

Fair enough, the reason I used them was cause a couple of the companies I bought from wouldn't ship out of the US as well (the savings were more of a bonus I realised after looking into it), but they had no problem sending them to my shipito address, which was just like C/o Eastbiz corp, Suite #***** ***W 140th street Torrance CA or something, but if certain companies are wising up to that then I suppose thats a problem. They also do assisted purchases for a couple dollars if the company will only take American cards or something, and will even go into shops in person if they have real shops in the right area.

I'm sure these companies that aren't allowed to sell out of the US will figure it all out over time, but then again parcel forwarding companies may get sneakier aswell and it will probably keep going in a cycle like that for a while until its almost impossible to distinguish one of these parcel forwarding addreses to a legit US customer.

[gareth_oau]

once you sign up with HSG they will give you your own personal address there.

When you buy your goods, you give the seller the dubsteve address at HSG

[Buller_Scott]

man that's a pretty nifty system.

i'll have no choice but to use these guys from now on, given that friggin backcountry wont ship my brand of snowboard overseas anymore (neversummer, and its either HSG or driving to jindabyne just to buy one from cherri cherri pow pow).

[DubSteve]

once you sign up with HSG they will give you your own personal address there.

When you buy your goods, you give the seller the dubsteve address at HSG

then does HSG know where to send them to or do you have to tell them?

[Preen59]

Try myUS.com.

Greg Roles reckons they're pretty good.

I mainly ship from INA in Canada, so i'm not much help.

[gareth_oau]

Jeese Scott, I was in Jindy a week ago, I could have picked one up for you!