Buying stuff online in the Dominican Republic?

[etolw]

I also tried shopping on ebay before switching to aliexpress
Ebay has some good offers, but way too often you will see "We do not ship to the Dominican Republic".
The "free commerce" treaty with the US seems to work one way only.

Then you will get this message -- oftentimes

That's why you don't ship to the Post Office

Well, what he says is that’s why he do not buy from Ebay/US but uses aliexpress.
(I assume CaribeDigital is a he for no good reason:cross-eye)

Then you are allowed to ship to the Post Office. Much better for him than US based Ebay I assume, especially if China are going to do direct shipments to DR more frequently. Interested to know more about that @CaribeDigital.

I've bought a lot from aliexpress when I lived in Europe. Also from Ebay, but tried to avoid shipments from US as the freight costs were huge. Bought from China vendors usually.
Much cheaper than shopping from the US. If you want to talk about the quality of goods from China, start another thread please. Most goods nowadays are produced in China.
Just buy from a vendor that supplies the quality you want.

I built up a pastime microbrewery with parts from there.

Interesting that the post office works for him.

Where do you live @CaribeDigital?

 

[bienamor]

as I along with many others shop ebay amazon then ship to a forwarder in the US the statement that they don't ship to the DR is of little or no consequence.

 

[etolw]

as I along with many others shop ebay amazon then ship to a forwarder in the US the statement that they don't ship to the DR is of little or no consequence.

Yes, for you and me where the price of shipping and/goods is of minor importance.

But that was not the point at all, for someone else that matters. This thread is about buying stuff online, not restricted to only using courier services.

And I saw one post here that a vendor did not ship stuff to a courier/forwarder service to. Never happened to me though.

 

[PeterInHigüey]

I buy from Amazon to ship free to Foxpack in Miami and they ship by air for around $3/lb. Usually 4-5 days after they get it. I've done about six orders since Christmas.

 

[william webster]

Yes, for you and me where the price of shipping and/goods is of minor importance.

But that was not the point at all, for someone else that matters. This thread is about buying stuff online, not restricted to only using courier services.

And I saw one post here that a vendor did not ship stuff to a courier/forwarder service to. Never happened to me though.

Has happened to me more than once....
they recognize the forwarders and refuse to ship knowing it's for export