That is a useful seller to know of. I would guess that a belt is thin enough to fit in a standard envelope. Part of the problem is that in the UK there are four different thicknesses for Royal Mail each with a different set of prices which depends on destination, which you can read here https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2020-12/royal-mail-our-prices-1-january-2021.pdf You get the bizarre situation, where if I wanted to send a 20cm cube made of expanded polysterene it would actually cost less to send it to Europe than internally in the UK. Quite how much Chinese postage costs is a mystery. I have often bought items from there which, including postage, cost less than the UK internal postage.
Interesting. At present many countries have suspended mail services to AUS and other countries I gather.
Last year I ordered belts from Marian, he is in Czechia. Belts ordered early in the year came within two weeks, I think it was a week. Belts ordered after the Covid restrictions, took two full months to deliver (!) And another delivery from the U.K. was returned to the poster without reaching me, I am in the U.S.
There are huge issues with mail from various countries with Covid lock downs. In some cases sellers have to use DHL courier services at premium prices as there is no mail service available. Marian had prices of $35AUD to ship one belt for a while but that has dropped now to the regular price. That was most likely what happened to him. I had 3 or 4 items out of HKG fail to arrive and had to get refunds but basically everything including a couple of rare MD's from Russia arrived....after 3 months!
The seller of the Comtel ones has just sent me the wrong item , Tiny earphone pads rather than 40mm headphone pads. I have asked if they have the right ones in stock. Several years ago I had a regular buyer in Moscow of model soldiers. I sent him some and after three weeks was wondering why he hadn't left feedback so asked him. He said that he hadn't received them yet, but wasn't worried as he knew they would take a month to clear through the Russian customs office.
Oh no. I expect I'll get the smaller size as well then. Plus I had to pay Global Shipping price. Not good enough when you specify 40mm ones on the order and you receive the small ones.
They were a different make as well, so the only thing in common with what I ordered was that there were six foam things in three different colours. The seller paid 96p for UK second class large letter postage.
Wow. Well they go back right. I have sent a message to this seller checking that the goods they have sent match the order. Its going to cost more than 96p to send mine back. Very poor to substitute something that you did not order. That's like the Stihl battery powered tree pruner scam. What you got was a chainsaw chain with two cloth handles. Nothing like the advertised item. They know you won't pay to ship it back for the refund.
You don't have to. With eBay payment protection eBay will (may?) refund you, and it is up to you to send the item back.
Hopefully. PayPal requires you to ship it back to the address they supply, and you have to prove via customs declaration that you sent it back as instructed but eventually they do refund you but you still have to pay the postage cost to return the disputed item(s). The Ebay refund should include your payment to Pitney Bowes under the EBay Global Shipping program. I hope I get what I ordered and avoid all of this as it's a total pain
The good news is that they have refunded me, The bad news is "because of this lock down we couldn't get the stock and our packing team send the wrong size" So it sounds as if they haven't got and can't get (at the moment) what they had listed.
Well at least they are consistent. The guy pleaded with me not to give him negative feedback and offered the full refund. Imagine my surprise when Pitney Bowes also refunded their massive delivery fee including taxes!!. So as the bard would say all's well that ends well. Not sure if any of the other options to buy these 40mm coloured foams are worth the effort right now. As I have a couple of sets I will wait for more certain times to buy again. Cheers.
40mm new old stock orange headphone foams. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orange-...-/265047860169?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292 Will sell out fast!
Not exactly cylindrical, more like donut-shaped, also they seem hand-made, not exactly NOS. Ah, well, I ordered a pair. Thanks!
The feedback I have from another collector is that they look better than the set of coloured ones. Certainly worth looking at as I don't need the other colours. My immediate reaction was they are not flat cut and look slightly rounded on the edge but the colour looks close to the originals. Seems you can no longer get an exact replica of the original MDR-3L2 foams. At that price I ordered a few sets.
JLab Bluetooth headphones are $9 on Amazon now for a pair of blue ones or $14 for a pair of black ones. Each pair of headphones comes with two sets of foam pads, of which, as far as I understand, one pair is always orange. I ordered myself a pair of blue ones, so will update this thread after I receive them. $9 for a pair of decent Bluetooth phones is better than $10 than Retrospekt charges just for a pair of orange foam pads.
How do the headphones sound? That's funny that they give an extra pair of foam, most of the cheap headphones I have use plastic pillows like the 70's models.
