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Courrier horror stories?

>Order Rick Pod shorts
>Never usually get duty fees if I do they've been like 20-30 max
>Anxiously awaiting their arrival been waiting to cop them for a while
>Get to Canada in a week
>whatever.jpg
>Brother hears the door wakes me up
>Run downstairs to catch the guy
>No one is at the door. Okay?
>Guys fucking left when my brother went to get me.
>Look at door notice
>118 in duty fees.

What the fuck, man.

>> No.7919532

>buy shoes from barneys online for a good price
>can't wait for to get them so i splurge on the overnight shipping
>since i know i'll be at work, i arrange for pick up at the local fedex store so i don't miss the delivery guy
>next day, check tracking info, says the package arrived at the fedex store, but has already been SIGNED for
>freak out, drive straight to fedex store to check on it
>they say, "oh yea, we got it"
>the spend 30 minutes rummaging around the store looking for it, can't find it anywhere
>"welp, anon, there's nothing we can do, here call this toll free number maybe they can help you"
>steam coming out of my ears, red in the face, about to pop a cap in this niggas face

long store short, i called the toll free number, they told me the package arrived at the pick up location, then some stupid ass delivery man signed for it and took it out for delivery, and of course i wasn't home. then they had to take it back to the fed ex store, print a new shipping label for it, before i could pick it up.

took me 2 extra days to get my package

>> No.7919551

no real courier horror stories, thankfully. i've had shit always miss me when i'm home and almost get sent back, but that's easy to fix.

now i usually just get stuff shipped to my job becuz there's always someone here. and i'm usually always here, so.

living in an old apartment building was always tricky too, because they ddin't have keys to the building so they would leave your package outside the apartment complex and hopefully someone didn't steal it. shit always got jacked from my building.

>> No.7919563

>>7919551
That sucks, dude. Good thing you can ship to work, though. Can't trust people with a mysterious box.

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7919588

>>7919513
>Guy fucking left when my brother went to get me.

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>>7919513
>bought dress shoes on sale from ssense
>needed them for a wedding so i bought them last minute
>pay for expedited shipping
>arrives one whole week late
>ssense didnt ship the shoes for a week
>courier didnt deliver the package to my door for 3 days even though it was sitting in a warehouse in my city.
called ssense to give them shit but instead i get some rude bitch who says they ship it when they want to.
ended up wearing old dress shoes.
funny part is
ordered a sectional 3 days after i ordered the shoes. sectional came within one week.
i guess the dont like delivering shoes

>> No.7919607

>>7919598
they*

>> No.7919616

>>7919598
lmao the chick on the phone. "they ship it when they want to" What a cunt.

>> No.7919620

>>7919616
i know right?
i make it out to montreal 4x a year and everytime i go to the ssense flagship.
full of nice and wellspoken salespeople.
how that cunt got in there...idk

>> No.7919623

>>7919620
Obviously a temp or some shit. Someone who felt they could get lippy over the phone.

>> No.7919624
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>>7919598
That's weird, I placed an order with ssense on friday at 2 30 and they shipped like 10 minutes later. Getting my package tomorrow

>> No.7919633

>>7919513
Did you order from Rick's site?

>> No.7919640

>>7919624
heres where it gets weird.
im in alberta.
(i know alberta is shit)
i order some items off of yoox as well.
yoox items get here faster than ssense.

maybe ur just lucky mon amis

>> No.7919649

Welcome to Canada

>> No.7919647
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7919647

>copped a new parka from asos and it said it would take a week and a bit to arrive
>package shows up next day
>tfw no money because decided to pay rent early
>80 bucks in duty fees
>spill spaghetti telling guy i don't have my wallet right now
>says hell bring it to their office that's like 45 mins away
>feelsbadman.jpeg

>> No.7919652

>>7919649
canada!
duties out the ass
slow and shitty service

>> No.7919654

>>7919633
I did, yeah. I won't again.

>>7919640
lmao took them a week to ship to Alberta? The fuck?

>> No.7919655

every single courier story is a horror story where I live. 25% duty fees on everything. All the private couriers take advantage of this by paying it for us and taking obscene fees (often more than doubling the price of the initial fee) for this "service". We have no choice in the matter, we cannot for instance just pay the fucking fee ourselves, which the official customs services do not mind, I might add.
As most foreign companies only ship through UPS or DHL we just hafe to accept the huge shitty cock fucking us and then pay it after.

>> No.7919674

>>7919655
exactly.
i think we just have to bite the bullet in these circumstances

>> No.7919695

>>7919655
>>7919674
Just seems like one of those shitty things that just hasn't changed at all.

It's especially odd when I have bought shoes from the same places and have had no import fees. I just don't get it.

>> No.7919712

>>7919695
I once got a bill for the import fees three months after delivery.

>> No.7919714

>>7919695
well ssense obviously didnt charge me duties but if you want anything outside of canada prepare to be anally excavated

>> No.7919720

>>7919712
What? Nonsense.

But what other companies are there for international shipping? None? Only DHL and FedEx?

>> No.7919731

>>7919720
ups too.
but ya its a recurring nightmare

>> No.7919753
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7919753

Get on my level, guys.

>be Russian
>get shipment from England in two days in the beginning of January
>wrong size
>send back
>government invents new laws
>picture
>government abandons most of laws invented previously
>but still have to pay import duty now
>oh boy they are wrong size again!
>flooding in London
Okay. I guess soon this half-year epopee would be over.
Gotta check the weather and contact their support so I can finally change them. Fucking duty, fuck.

>> No.7919770

Had no horror stories, but last week I had this

>Order APC jeans from Liberty
>They send Petit standard instead of petit new standard
>Free Returns
>Ring up DHL and schedule recovery, they say they can do the same day
>twenty four minutes later the courier is at my door to pick up the package.

>> No.7919771

>>7919753
dam...
well as much as i love putin i dont expect much from russia

>> No.7919788

Used to work phone customer service so I've seen just about everything. Had packages get delayed by train derailing, sent to addresses in an entirely different state, $500 of custom charges on a single order to Canada.

>> No.7921238

>>7919788
500? That's fucking robbery. Fuck this gay earth

>> No.7921248

>>7919532
>took me 2 extra days to get my package

2 days is like nothing.

>> No.7921293

I'm in Canada and UPS/Fedex/DHL give me problems almost half the time. I've had over 100 packages come through Canada Post and they only fucked up once. I know they're losing money but I hope they don't downsize much more because the private companies are shit if you aren't a corporate client.

>> No.7921356

>>7919640
Also from alberta.
I ordered a shirt from ssense, it took 4days even though i paid for it to be expedited.
Hard to turn up in another shirt.
Oh well, i'll still shop from them just because theyre in canada and ship with canada post.

>> No.7921388

>ordered some clothes
>don't remember what because it was like 4 years ago
>receive them in a timely fashion
>delivery guy brings them to my door, I sign for them
>no issues, no duties
>get a call from a collections two months later because I got dinged by customs and the delivery guy never told me
>they never sent a reminder notice or a bill
>my credit score takes a hit because of like $30 that DHL never told me about

Yes, I was mad.

>> No.7921421

>>7919753
Guess they where stalin

>> No.7921432

>>7921248
>>took me 2 extra days to get my package
>2 days is like nothing.
yea, but i guess the guy did pay extra to overnight it.

sometimes i feel like i shouldn't get mad cause, statistically, stupid shit's bound to happen and i'm gonna have to put up with it at some point in my life one way or the other. plus, i fuck up at my job sometimes and i don't do customer service anymore, but that shit can suck when ur company fucks up and ppl are straight up raged at you...

but on the other hand these people have, like, one important effin thing to do, it doesn't take a whole lot of intelligence to do it, and i mean, it's like: just bring me my goddamn package, stupid hoe. y'kna mean?

>> No.7921437

>>7919647
>>7919513
what the fuck are duty fees?

>> No.7921441

>>7919753
>>7919771
being russian/living in russia/putting up w/the russian gov't. seems like one of the most uncomfortable and inconvenient experiences ever. place makes me glad i live in the land of the bigclaps...

>> No.7921450

>>7921437
tariffs

>> No.7921454

>>7921450
so you can get hit by $80 of tariffs? that's stupid as fuck. I've never had that happen (new zealand)

>> No.7921456

>>7919640
WHERE IN ALBERTA NIGGA IM HERE TOO

>> No.7921467

When I was 17 or so I had ordered some clothes from Karmaloop (cheap mondays and a hershel lel). I paid $45 in customs then FedEx sent me a letter saying I owed them another $75 a couple of months later. My dad took care of it and I didn't end up having to pay.

>> No.7921479

>courier services delaying delivery 3 times in a row with no reason why
>literally just give up on the order after not having received it for a month
>cant track it because no tracking information due to post
>get a call another half a month later saying that the post office has it after ups refused to take it back after the 2 of them had been juggling my package around for a month without calling me about it

Fucking christ

>> No.7921489

protip - if you get billed a duty fee, don't pay it, nothing happens!

>> No.7921502

>>7921489
>>7921489
Doesn't it go against your credit history if you use a credit card?

>> No.7921584

>>7921456
Edmonton

>> No.7921590

>>7921489
I think places like UPS or FedEx will stop delivering your parcels if you aren't paying the fees.

>tfw nervously await the letter from FedEx a week after I receive something

I only seem to get hit with duties from End Clothing. Norse Projects, MMM, some random French and German stores...nothing. Anyone from the US have any issue with Norse Store? I'm about to order 250 bucks worth of stuff from them.

Oh, bonus feel:
>tfw expected delivery date arrives and the fucking package is still in Europe.
Cocktease.

>> No.7921757

>>7921590
>buying directly from norse projects
their clothes are cheaper in stores..

>> No.7921793

>>7921757
I live in rural America...

>> No.7921916

>order perfume from fragrancex (USA->EU)
>standard air mail
>don't receive in a month or so
>fuck 'em, waited long enough, open claim on paypal
>win claim (no tracking number coz standard mail, paypal favors my side, refunds total price)
>perfume arrives few days later
>mixed feels

>> No.7923720 [DELETED] 

>>7921916
thief.

>> No.7923733

>>7921916
lucky.

>> No.7923748

I ordered some sneakers from ssense, and it took them 17 days to show up at my damn doorstep (California). To be honest, I didn't get the 3 day shipping. But, still.
Duty fees? lol.

>> No.7923798

>>7919532
oh my god two whole days the fucking horror

>> No.7923812
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7923812

>order watch online (nothing particularly fancy, just a nice Timex weekender)
>wait like 5-6 weeks for it to come through customs from the USA
>get an email from the supplier saying that she has received the watch and will be dispatching it to me via local post soon
>soon.jpg
>pick up package at the post office, drive home
>get home to open, fucking wrong watch
>some shitty girls sports watch that costs like $5
>freak the fuck out, frantically email her
>"Oh it seems i confused the two orders and sent them to the wrong people, oops. want refund?"
>FUCK YOU BITCH I DONT WANT A REFUND I WANT MY DAMN WATCH NOW

anyway, the people she wrongly sent it to hadnt yet collected it and she managed to get it back and everything turned out better than expected

>> No.7923821

you guys gotta stop wasting money on the faster shipping options. paying for shipping is gay as fuck already. save up for more cops!

>> No.7923841

>>7919532
It's like another Shoah right before my eyes

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>>7921421

>> No.7923867

>>7923812
Chill bro. At least she offered you a refund.

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7923881

>>7919640
Also an Albertafag

Ordered some Dunks from the Rick site a month ago. I paid 260$ in "duties and taxes"

>> No.7923899

>buy 500$ worth of clothes + junk from JP
>shipping worth 250$
>was in the process of moving and it still sent to old address
>Poste canada gets to old address
>new people tell them "they don't live here anymore
>Poste canada instead of bringing to Poste office and checking that I paid for everything to be sent to new address automatically sends it back to JP.
>package still in montreal
>call them asking if they can do anything or not
>"i'm sorry we can't do anything"
>package in canada for 2 weeks
Now I gotta pay the 250$ for shipping again.

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7923920

Not really horror but annoying af

>Be me long time ago
>Order some shit from Karmaloop
>Order 2 hoodies
>Waits atleast 1 month since i live in Norway
>When it finally comes i get the wrong hoodies
>And i have to pay 80$ more for fucking VAT and shit
>mfw

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>>7921421

>> No.7923951

>>7923798
ya well thats a long time when u spent $40 on overnnight shipping instead of free ground shipping

>> No.7923956

>>7923899
happy to hear

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7923971

>>7923899
Who the fuck pays $250 for shipping?

>> No.7924069

not so much courier horror story but horror story nonetheless

>buy creepers from some german website
>only ship to european union
>have them ship a size 44 to my proxy, arrives in 3 days
>they send a size 42
>wait another week for proxy to send it and for them to receive it so they can issue refund so he can order it again
>wait another three days
>they sent a fucking size 42 again.
>wait another week.
>proxy orders again, size 44 sold out, he calls them up to make sure because he thinks they're marking down the 44s and shipping the 42s
>mfw

auspost is generally pretty good but sometimes they're complete fuckheads
>wait at home for shoes
>courier pulls up on the curb near my house
>wait for him to knock
>he just leaves a fucking note in my letterbox telling me to pick up from a local post office
>gives address of wrong post office
>have to call up and see where the fucking package is

>> No.7926071

>7921916
do the tight thing anon

>> No.7926276

>>7923971
big dogs

>> No.7926675

>>7921293
I agree. Honestly Canada Post has always been surprisingly competent for me. Packages routinely reach me ahead of expected delivery date, and I've yet to be hit with duties (though I dunno if that's their doing, or if there's a separate customs department or something).

>> No.7926701

>be american
>have amazon prime
>package arrives on time
>

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>>7919532
>about to pop a cap in this niggas face

lol little gay boy trying to be a non gay.

>> No.7926753

>>7921454
if you spend over like $150 in NZ you'll get them. There's an online calculator thing on the customs website, but it's safer asking people sending you shit to declare a lower value on the package when they send them to you

>> No.7926903
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7926903

>tfw you live in the US
>tfw never have to pay duties
>tfw shipping is cheap, fast, and reliable

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7927235

>tfw you live in Canada
>tfw always have to pay duties
>tfw shipping is expensive, slow, and unreliable

>> No.7927315

>work for UPS loading trucks
>really shit job
>step on, trip, throw and drop all your shit

>> No.7927331

>find out about yahoo japan proxies
>get really excited because now i can have a huge selection of all my fav Japanese brands for super cheap
>pick a proxy to use
>don't do enough research
>realize that the proxies charge a shitton in fees and shipping so you don't really save much of anything
>cry

at least i'll have some cool stuff... soon

>> No.7927341

>Been contemplating moving to Canada
>Read this thread
Yeah, fuck Canada.

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7927351

>tfw be me 10/10 cool man, sending text
>"youre mine tomorrow"
>"oh really?"
>"let me check my schedule. yes tomorrow."
>"I have plans"
>mfw
>"thats cool. what nights are you free?"
>"probably next week"
>mfw

Goddamnit. I liked this girl too.
You can't get too comfortable.

>> No.7927411

>living in a first world country
>paying "duty fees'

Sounds like a crock brahs.
Only shittyish shipping story I have is ordering from Nike. It was a day late. I didn't even realize it but they sent me an apology and a coupon for 15% off.
MURRRICA

>> No.7927424

>>7927351
>tfw be me 10/10 cool man

i wish i knew this feel

>> No.7927467

>>7927424
I wish this girl didn't blow me off but we don't always get what we wish for.

You can keep trying to be a cool man, and I'll look for a new girl to fuck tomorrow night.

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>>7921421