Epomaker Express Shipping & Customs Duty - Bangalore a.k.a Bengaluru - INDIA
Hi Everyone,
I know everyone is eager to know about the Epomaker Sales and their lucrative discounts on their Website.
Sorry Everyone in advance for the long post. There is a new sale that goes up on Epomaker, just wanted to make sure people had the insights about express shipping beforehand.
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Not A unboxing or Keeb Experience Post
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Without further a due, let's begin the Shopping, Shipping & Customs Duty experience.
I wanted to buy a mechanical keyboard from a very long time. Basically joined reddit and found out recently that we have a dedicated subreddit for mouse & keyboard (mkindia), very happy to see the community member help out one and another. Saw couple of people post that a sale was going down on Epomaker website and recommending it as well. So I jumped on the band wagon and started researching day & night whenever i got time, i was mostly researching like a freak. I really wanted to buy a good keeb as my first mechanical purchase. So saw the Gift Card sale happening, quickly without blinking an eye. Purchased a 50$ gift card. Keyboards I had in mind was to buy something with that amount range (Ajazz AK820. AK 820 Pro & AK820 MAX). Then when the sale started, like a typical Indian went for the highest discounted product which was at 50% off. Dilemma set in. Whether to buy AK 820 Pro or CIDOO AMB098 Mint Green, comparison started. After many days back and forth reviewing YouTube videos and reviews on google and reddit, I was still not able to make my decision. Reviews for AK 820 Pro were more and CIDOO AMB098 were less but I read and saw that CIDOO AMB098 was an amazing keyboard to type and game on.
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AK820 Pro - Regular price $59.99 Discounted Price - 53$
Link: https://epomaker.com/products/ajazz-ak820-pro?_pos=1&_psq=AK820&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=47007558402356
CIDOO ABM098 - Regular price $119.00 - Discounted Price - -$58.00
Decision :-
Finally decided to purchase the CIDOO ABM098 for $58.00 (Indian Discount Mindset won, highest priced keyboard getting it for low, had to get it). Placed the order on Nov 5, selected standard shipping. To my utter disappointment, Epomaker emailed me saying that the product was overweight and I had to pay 27$ extra if I had to proceed with the purchase as a Express Shipping, if not they would refund the entire amount, since it had not been processed. So I cancelled it by replying to the email. If I had purchased the 100$ Gift Card, I might have thought about it, by then the GC was sold out. So I decided to foolishly try again purchasing the same stuff on Nov 10 to see if Epomaker was really doing something shady to push me into selecting Express Shipping. As usual Epomaker emailed the same reply and gave the same options. This time I did not cancel the order but kept in on wait mode. Thinking a lot and weighing my options. As I was browsing around the mkindia, I found that many people wanted to buy the 50$ GC since they were really interested in buying the AK820 Pro like I initially did. So by then I put up a sale to sell my 50$. In the meantime I noticed couple of people selling their 100$ suddenly I hatched a Master plan. Sell My 50$ quickly and get a 100$ code (this was a extremely dangerous gamble) Trusting someone on this forum was first time for me. But I got the courage when a buyer who purchased 50$ GC from me had blind faith in me. So I decided to take the leap. Got 100$ GC. Following purchases were made in the heat of the moment since I wanted to block the GC from being used by someone else or the buyer himself. Paid 6.1k for 100$ GC.
Purchased Items:
Selected the above products and Express Shipping. Requested Epomaker to undervalue the shipment and they replied with.
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Shipping Journey Below:
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Tracking Details Started on 2024-11-11
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Customs Notification & Journey Below:
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On 2024-11-11, I was asked to update the KYC by Aramax:
After updating I got the email from Aramax confirming it was successfully validated on 2024-11-12.
Then the wait began, constantly checking for updated, pinned the tabs on PC, mobile browser and what not lol. Paranoid mode creeped in (Exaggeration). Now the actual thing which started was people were not clearing telling whether express shipping was actually gonna land into customs hands. Freak paranoia mode crept in, whether they will charge based on the assessed value or undervalued price or online price if the customs officer used phenomenal brain to actually find out the real price of the product or via HSN Code (No clue about this topic, vast ocean for common people like us, its like government does not want us to evade customs so they built a vast twisted codes, rules and etc). Finally the day arrived.
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Customs Invoice Landing from Aramax:
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Express Cargo Clearance System:
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Long Story Short:
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Ended up coughing 2356₹ for customs and received the package yet to unbox it. All in all I spent 70$ for 100$ GC + Extra 8$ + Customs Duty
Indian Rupees:
6150₹ Gift Card + 680₹ (couple of bank charges for conversion not checked) + 2356₹ Customs Duty
Total - 9186₹ roughly
Not bad for a purchase, only since it was on sale. God help those when its not on sale. We would end up shelling out lot to customs duty.
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Package looks like:
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Local Shipping Partner was Delhivery:
Paid Customs Duty Via UPI to the delivery agent via QR Code.
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Thank you Everyone for your Patience. I Hope this post helps fellow friends on this subreddit.
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