Saturday, November 26, 2011

Oversea purchasing: a comparison between Vpost and Borderlinx

Both Vpost and Borderlinx could be used as a oversea purchasing agent. Because they could consolidate your goods and save shipment and delivery cost, after all you could not everything you want from Amazon.

I used Vpost to deliever my online purchasing, and this November I tried Borderlinx. Below is the summary of comparison.
1. Oversea aress: Vpost (US, UK, JAP, CHN); Borderlinx (US, UK)
2. US address (Portland, WA, west coast); Borerlinx (Columbus, OH, Chentral). The inland postage will depen on the distance between vendor and your shipment adress.
3. Concerge serveice: Vpost (NA); Borderlinx (Yes). It helps when the merchant o not accept S'pore credit cards.
4. Free waiting period: Vpost (1 month); Borderlinx (1month).
5. Shipment charge: I think the charges are similar. Both are volumn weight based, both 1.5kg parcel cost me ~S$30.
6. Payment: Vpost (creit card, internetbanking); Borderlinx (only Citibank credit card).
7. International and inland courier: I thnik both hire DHL.
8. Delevery time after consolidate of goods: Vpost (2 weeks), Borderlinx (1week). That is what I confused. In Vpost, I can not trace my parcel after I consolidate my goods before it came to S'pore; while Borderlinx provide me the parcel ID so that I check every move of my parcel in DHL. I don't know what happened to my goods in Vpost, did they hold my goods?
9. Purchase inform: Vpost (need send them a e-mail including purchase invoice); Borderlinx (No need). Borerlix looks more hassle free.

Below is my latest purchase from US. It cost me only 9 days from order to delievey. I was impressed by Borderlinx.

1 comment:

  1. hi. jika anda mencari perkhidmatan untuk menghantar bungkusan ke luar negara, saya cadagkan anda mencuba viabox. dnegan harga plaing murah di antara pesaingnya, ia juga tidak mengenakan caj pendaftaran dan caj keahlian. sangat berbaloi.

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