[chbot] http://www.icstation.com

[Quentin McDonald]

I noticed recently this site:

http://sparks.gogo.co.nz/trademe/index.html

Sells some of the same things listed on ICStation. Prices (in NZD) about
1.5x-2x those listed on icstation, presumably all coming from the same
Chinese sources. Difference will be purchases arrive in days rather than
weeks so that might be worth paying for.

Disclaimer: I have no connection to this website except as a customer.


Quentin


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Chris Hellyar <chris at trash.co.nz> wrote:

> I bought some stuff off their ebay store last year.
>
> Don't remember any issues, but recently been buying all my bits from a
> couple of other eBay suppliers.
>
> They're not selling anything unique so if you shop around on ebay you'll
> find other Chinese/HK sellers with high volume positive feedback pretty
> quickly that have identical stuff and you get the implied paypal buyer
> protection as almost all of them are paypal only.
>
> I've bought a few hundred dollars worth of Arduino / modular electronics
> stuff in the last six months off Chinese sellers on eBay and not had any
> issues.  Happy to dig out the store links for the sellers I've been using
> when I get home if anyone is curious.
>
> Cheers, Chris H.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Richard Jones" <richard.jones.1952 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 August, 2014 20:11
> To: "Christchurch Robotics" <chchrobotics at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Subject: [chbot] http://www.icstation.com
>
> Has anyone bought from these folks?  http://www.icstation.com
>
> Anyone have an opinion about them? :-)
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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