ronb
Hi Roy,
Thanks for the feedback on eBay. It gives me more confidence to give it a go. Is this import license arrangement needed even for relatively low cost purchases?
Roy
No, not at all required, and for less expensive items that we purchase on eBay, like old photos of Bali, we have them sent to us by airmail from the seller...again with no problems at our local post office...who even delivers to our house.
DHL is expensive and only makes sense for more expensive items. If I were purchasing a good used laptop, I would use DHL to have it sent in to Bali, but even then an import license is not required.
For anyone here in Bali who is not regularly importing things from outside Indonesia, any of the air express carriers will do nicely. In that case I would ask the seller to ship to my name and to the address of the closest air express office to me for pick up there. Then, just track the progress on that particular air express internet tracking web site.
SG
DHL is mighty expensive (I use it for door to door deliveries most weeks..the guys in the yellow vans have got to know me now) but as Roy says, very efficient.
And Indo Post are very good too, albeit a little pricey and slow compared to western post. But I've never had anything go missing from them, fingers crossed, in three years and I've had literally hundreds of parcels and letters over that period. Now I have a PO box (in Dps) and where else in the world do you get a friendly call from the PO telling you that you have mail in your box.
Compare that to Australia. I used to send lots of sample CDs via Australian Post and invariably a percentage would disappear. Sometimes there would be a crack down and it would improve and then get worse again. Thank god for Mp3s and electronic servicing.
