Yes, fantastic site, I may get loads of stuff I didn't know I needed...
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they build it into the total price

ordered a doogee x5 pro from them last tuesday (from hk warehouse not eu one ) arrived last saturday :smiley:

Because it's subsidised by organisations like the Royal Mail, Ofcom.

All of the UN countries are members of the Universal Postal Union. It's purpose is to allow anyone within these UN states to have the ability to send letters etc to anybody else in the world.

The poorer countries postal services are subsidised by the countries with better economies.

Since shopping became popular online though this system is kind of not operating as originally intended, because a company in China can ship products in to the UK for example at a much better rate than a company within the actual UK.

It looks great on these kind of deals, but the more people purchase from these kind of company's, the more Royal Mail have to spend in subsidies and the more money is taken out of our economy.

But enjoy the knock off Lego I guess if it saves people a few quid.

Among all the serious banter, a spark of light. Love it Gort

That should go down well :wink:

my doogee x5 pro was ordered on Tuesday and delivered on Saturday n:)

All about the kickbacks :wink:

They also have HUKD picks which are not much of a deal. Prob getting money from companies which "sponsor" them

I believe an American made the same mistake. If a model of London Bridge turns up you will be sorry. It's bloody ugly

The Americans thought London Bridge was Tower Bridge :smiley:

You should have great fun building these together, tip get some precision side cutters, needle nose pliers, tweezers, and some drills or dowels to help form cylinders, watch a couple of tutorials online, if some pieces break don't give up, you can glue them or push a blob of blue tack behind to keep it in shape.

Wow, sorry to hear that -- but good to have a cautionary tale here. I've been ordering from GearBest only for the past couple of months and must say I had no problems whatsoever getting both gadgets and toys -- had my £55 phone EU -delivered and it incurred no tax, yet it arrived within few days. Obviously, there is a risk if an item needs to be sent back and dealing with Chinese online retailers is never going to be easy. I also tried BangGood and they too seemed OK. Be good to hear more hands-on experiences with these kind of shops.

I must have been lucky then as I ended up with a Pipo X9 touch-screen PC for £45, delivered in about two weeks. It's hit and miss with them but well worth the gamble IMO.

Many EU countries have stepped in to help their steel industries while our Government dithers about what to do.
The problems caused by high energy bills, a global glut in production and cut-price Chinese imports are not unique to Britain.
Yet our government is almost alone in doing the bare minimum to support our plants and in the future we will end up paying for it.We are also the only country in Europe to insist on a “carbon price floor” – a top-up tax brought in to encourage firms to switch to greener fuels.

And our support for energy-reliant businesses hit by an EU-wide deal on carbon emissions has been pathetic. Georgey boy Osborne has set aside just £500 million a year to help British heavy energy users such as steel,and Germany has set aside £3.67billion.

In 2014 Britain was paying 9p per kilowatt hour for electricity , compared with 4.12p in France and 4.81p in Germany and manufacturing steel uses up a hell of a lot of it.So in fact the greedy UK energy producers have had a large hand to play in making British steel noncompetitive to begin with .

Strict EU rules bar governments from using state aid to prop up firms ,BUT as always the other EU countries have either turned a blind eye to the regulations or found ways to get round it as they have always done since the EEC was formed (better known as the gravy train by plenty of Europeans ) Does any one remember the butter, milk and other food mountains the EEC where creating and we where subsidizing ??

As always our government uses the same old approach of to little to late and will no doubt say it did all it could once the British steel industry breaths its last breath

​Scroll through the models you lazy git.

My 10 and 13 year olds (a gal and a boy) did the oldie Ford car first -- took under 2 hours with tweezers and a screwdriver (with my help and youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7MMlhn4McM)
Wouldn't really call it 'metalwork', myself...

Cheap? Yes.
Chinese? Probably
Steel? Can't think of anything better for this sort of use