Why do you need to learn how to buy online goods abroad

Today's Internet offers incredible opportunities. These include online shopping abroad. We can buy food in the best stores in Europe and the United States, not getting up from your couch.

However, many people prefer not to get involved with such a "difficult and dangerous" phenomenon, as the purchase of goods Network abroad, continuing to regularly pay their wallet greed of local entrepreneurs. Desired item is not for sale in your town? Okay, dispense. The new smartphone came in local shops with a delay of 3 months at double the price? Well, what to do.

Often people limit itself to possible only because he sees opened alternative is extremely difficult to understand and use, while underestimating its advantages.

Layfhakere we believe that for the future of shopping online, and over time it will replace the classic shopping as a phenomenon. Regular readers know that we occasionally touch on the topic of purchases in the digital space, publishing for you to review and experience with the service proxy.

Now we will move this topic more actively and start with motivational and educational post.

Saving

Perhaps this factor alone is sufficient to join the community of online shoppers. For example, do not need to go far. Just remember the events that occurred after the release of Nexus 4 smartphone.

This is a great guglofon with pure Android, sufficient capacity to carry out all urgent problems, and it quickly gets all operating system updates. In general, the choice of a practical man. Products with Nexus inscription from year to year all the more urgent, and local stores know it. As a result, one sees in the US Google Play store treasured device is priced at $ 349 for a model with 16 gigabytes of memory. Wow! He is also a budget! The class is necessary to wait, when the machine comes to Russia. The long wait is replaced outright shock. Our stores are beginning to sell it for 19,990 rubles. The margin of almost 100%. We understand that it is necessary to bring more and so on, but this is already too much. Unfortunately, this is happening and will happen with all future innovations.

10,000 difference is definitely worth it to learn the procedure of buying abroad, but immediately turns sad fact: Google Play, as well as many other American and European stores, sell or deliver goods Russia.

No shipping to Russia?

What to do? Overpay quite inadequate amounts still do not want to, but no direct way to get the goods there.

Let's imagine that we live in the United States one-friend-relative who agrees to buy the desired item by us, and then the home will forward it to us from America to Russia (mail service between the countries of the very fine working). Of course, not everyone has such a person, and so the problem is very widespread.

Where there is demand there will be supply. There were people who set the process of buying the US / European address and then send the goods to the customer's country on the conveyor. so there Services intermediary.

Services intermediary working on several schemes. We briefly describe the most common of them:

1. You do buy something, and as a delivery address points to a warehouse agent, which sends you to purchase.
2. When buying goods chances of problems with the payment means. Russian card can not accept. In this case, the mediator offers the customer to transfer money to your account. Advantage of this method is the removal of all the client's concerns and hemorrhoids, which may occur during the payment process. Transfer money to an intermediary, throw a link to the desired product, and everything. In fact, the purchase of the online store is associated not only with financial difficulties. Sometimes it is hard to understand how to properly fill out the shipping address. In this scheme, the user of such problems will not arise.
3. The evolution and development of the industry such services have led to the emergence of some intermediaries own courier services and this fact is very important for the buyer. All we know about how our favorite Russian Post. We heard about the customs service. Upon delivery to the intermediary's own forces actually carries the package itself, without the participation of Russian Post. He solves problems with customs if such problems occur. You know how it's cool? We advise to pay attention to this possibility when choosing a service.

It is understood that the mediator will ask for their services a certain amount of money. So what is more profitable to buy goods at a local store, or through an intermediary?

We consider a simple formula:

If the price [of the goods at the local store]> [price in foreign stores + cost of intermediary services + postage], then choose the course, the second.

Delivery terms

This question is relevant only in cases where the purchase is not new. Buy goods in a local store can be "here and now". He immediately appears in your hands. In the case of online purchase abroad will have to wait. If the goods have not yet appeared in Russia, it will have to wait anyway. Here we must only say that the probability of occurrence of a novelty in the local point of sale before the arrival of parcels from agent tends to zero, especially if the order was made in the early days of occurrence goods.

Availability of and access to all goods of the world

Even if you are afraid that the desired product will be on local shelves before sending comes, do not forget the reverse situation: it may not appear in your town. This is especially true for the province. This product may be available in an inconvenient location of the store, to end sooner than you can buy it, and the new party will bring a week (if not bring).

In the case of online shopping everything is easier: if the product is submitted to the online store, you can buy it. From anywhere in the world.

Do not forget about the variety of available products. A huge number of brands, whose product is available for purchase on the Web or in the shops of the country, where this brand physically located, generally does not present outside the digital space and in other countries. That is, find some kind of a cool thing of this brand in a random store simply will not work.

life hacking

Many are afraid to buy clothes and shoes on the web for one reason only - will not work. In fact, there are a couple of simple tricks that allow to reduce the risk to zero.

1. Let us assume that the local branded stores you find a piece of clothing of your dreams, but very terrible price. If time is suffering, try to do so: try on the thing, get your size and remember the brand + model + size. Now you can safely go to the online store of the company and ordered the same clothes, but at a much more affordable price
2. Many people are conservative when changing clothes. Simply put, the world's favorite jeans brand become almost family, and to replace them with something else you do not want. But we must - wear merciless. Next time, instead of going to the local shop for a replacement pair of favorite shoes or clothing, take a look at the online stores of these brands. It is likely that you will be pleasantly surprised. In this case, the name of the model and size you already have.

Even more savings

We started this material to the financial component of the benefits of online shopping, but here you can save not only due to the actual price difference.

In online stores, as well as in conventional stores, it happens all sorts promotions and discounts, And if we have a discount of 10% - this is Ogogo, there can be found the goods with the price of 20, 40 and 60 per cent below normal.

Another option for further savings - Using promotional codes and coupons. The network has dozens of smart sites that aggregated information about current coupon codes and codes.

Leave items in the basket for a few days, and the store can give you a discount or some kind of bonus.

Also in foreign shops there is a phenomenon called "closed sales». What it is? In fact, it could be operational sales of old collections, and just a marketing ploy, but the buyer is important to only one thing - a cool designer item or accessory you can buy literally for nothing. All you need to participate in a closed sale - be a registered store. Timely pinpoint such shares is problematic enough, but again come to the aid of websites, aggregators. They post on their pages up to date information on current and upcoming sales.

Additional services intermediaries

Service mediator helps not only to the fact that the transfers are not available for delivery to the purchase of Russia.

Calculating shipping costs - is a science with their tricks. Obviously, the larger and heavier the load, the more expensive it will cost his delivery. Packaging - it's always extra costs. Now imagine that we bought 10 different things in several US stores, and all these things need to send us an intermediary. The trick is that the mediator can help us. Do yourself a stock package with every thing will be removed, and then lay down in a large box, which is generally much less bulk than 10 individual boxes. It is called consolidation of parcels. Saving the expense of such an operation can be very substantial.

When it comes to fragile or sensitive to moisture premise, the surcharge mediator can appropriately modify the package.

How to choose a broker

Perhaps the advice of some of the best agent possible. They are now becoming more and more, and each takes something his own. Here cheaper extras, there is little to save on shipping, that specializes in a particular country, and the other carries something exclusive, but limited in other categories goods.

The only thing worth remembering about anything - it security. Scams are everywhere, including the industry's shipment of goods from abroad. Do not get fooled by the "cheapest delivery" of questionable services, offering you almost free shipping with bonuses. Before you apply to a particular intermediary, read reviews about it, but not on the site of the service, and to independent thematic forums.

Featured brokers

On its pages, we have already published a comparison chart "How to choose a broker"Which will help you choose the best agent based on the availability and cost of current services. Table 3 presents the most relevant and sought-after mediator according to LH readers.

In addition, we have a separate article devoted to the peculiarities of the work and chip intermediaries "banderolku"And"ManGoMag». Everything is checked on personal experience.

To be continued

It is understood that the material only superficially touches advantages and subtleties of online shopping overseas, and in future articles we will talk about each of the topics covered in more detail.

Also, we will try to add to our collection of reviews and the experience of interaction with various stakeholders.

If you have tips, comments and suggestions for further development of category "Online shopping abroad" within Layfhakera, do not hesitate to share them in the comments.