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Voodoo Nice, look forward to hearing about your experience! It's so frustrating living where no one wants to ship!

      5 days later

      NorioDS hi, can I get in contact with your friend that does the shipping that way? I would love to get more information about the procedure

        Visashi will do!

        Order placed and will (according to FedEx) be delivered at the aramex address today.

            Visashi Cool, I've asked him if he's keen to help. He's not on here yet.

                @Visashi My bud says to be careful of importing instruments. CITES on rosewood could mess you up.

                Other than that, I just know he orders in tech stuff (aquarium lights, gadgets, etc) without any issues.

                I'll update if says anything else ?

                13 days later

                Pickups delivered earlier today! Order was placed on the 29th of March, so I'm very impressed with Aramex.

                I'm going to let Foster install the pickups next week, can't wait to test it out!

                Great news! Looking forward to the sound clip ?

                  a year later

                  NorioDS Does that mean if I order a new guitar from the US with a Rosewood fretboard it could be problem? What happens? Do you get charged more to try bring it into the country?

                    Too long, I ordered stuff in December one arrived last week. A second item that unfortunately did not have a tracking number is gone.

                    Wow, thats flipping long morph. What shipping method did you use? IM going to try use Postbox-Courier and see how it works. Going to order a guitar from Guitar Centre that doesn't ship to SA. Holding thumbs it gets here ok, with no hectic customs fee.

                        Mine were sent registered mail via China Post. I have had an 80% success ratio, 2 out of 10 just never arrived and I found out later they had been sent back for non delivery.
                        The biggest issue is when it get's here. I tracked the items on the Post Office international tracking page using the international tracking number received from ebay. Once it arrives at SAPO the number is supposed to change to a local tracking number. This never happened. In the past I have phoned the SAPO call centre, and they have given me the local tracking number and Post Office it is being sent to. This last time the call centre never ever answered and the customer service email remains unanswered. Eventually I received an SMS from the local post office to say it was about to be sent back. I never received any notification from the Post Office, nor sms's before this. They claim they sent notification to our postbox but that never arrived. I have kept my purchases to really low value items, just in case. I have bough Fishman pickups, guitar case hinges and clips, machine heads, Bridge saddles etc on ebay. I would not buy something expensive. Use a Courier service, even though the cost is huge.

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