china imports via eBay.

[AirRifleSport]

I get well annoyed when I see a product that is advertised to be in stock in the UK and then find out is based in China.

[weebster]

You also need to take into account of the chinese new year which slows everything down.
As a second safe guard set the paypal payment to come from your credit card.

Using a credit card to buy when a third party is invloved (i.e. paypal,ebay,ali express) is not a guarantee of safety,I think you might find due to there being a third party involved with the transaction then any refund you might get via your cc company would be done as a good will gesture.
If you dealt directly with the seller than you maybe covered,I say maybe as some cards have a minimum amount before protection kicks in.

Ebay and paypal,...no1 rule,be aware of the deadline for escalating a dispute to a claim rather than the deadline for starting a dispute.
I had a seller keep me occupied with a promise of another item having been sent,I did take it to dispute and was told by ebay the deadline date for me to escalate to a claim,I waited until the day before the final date to escalate to a claim only to be told by ebay I couldn't as the 30 day deadline had passed.
So in effect raise a dispute 8 days before the 30 day deadline is up and escalate that dispute before the 30 days from date of sale is up.

[weebster]

I get well annoyed when I see a product that is advertised to be in stock in the UK and then find out is based in China.

There are some sellers on ebay that are based in hong kong or china who do hold stock in the uk,whether it's relatives over here helping out I have no idea,but my torch barrel mount came from portsmouth via royal mail 2nd class but the seller is in china.

[AirRifleSport]

I get well annoyed when I see a product that is advertised to be in stock in the UK and then find out is based in China.

There are some sellers on ebay that are based in hong kong or china who do hold stock in the uk,whether it's relatives over here helping out I have no idea,but my torch barrel mount came from portsmouth via royal mail 2nd class but the seller is in china.

Yes, I have noticed that. The Chinese certainly know how to exploit different routes for selling their products.
Going back about sending stuff back to the seller... I did send a DVR back to china once and the cheapest post costed me £16 or there about. I remember that I had to fight to get my money back, I did in the end, but what a struggle it was!

I would like to know how is it that the Chinese will send really cheap stuff including free post but we can't even cover for just the postage if we were to send it back the other way. I mean... The postal services are the bloody same! Once I purchased (from China) a set of 5 cables with crocodile clips at each end, ones used for electronics, total cost, £1.75. Now! That included:
The cables.
The postage from CHINA!
EBay's charges.
PayPal charges.
Packaging
Whatever profit they made.

How the hell do they do it?

[andybig]

Iv been getting stuff from china for 12 year or more and there postage is just a few pence to the UK.

[some bloke]

I get well annoyed when I see a product that is advertised to be in stock in the UK and then find out is based in China.

There are some sellers on ebay that are based in hong kong or china who do hold stock in the uk,whether it's relatives over here helping out I have no idea,but my torch barrel mount came from portsmouth via royal mail 2nd class but the seller is in china.

Yes, I have noticed that. The Chinese certainly know how to exploit different routes for selling their products.
Going back about sending stuff back to the seller... I did send a DVR back to china once and the cheapest post costed me £16 or there about. I remember that I had to fight to get my money back, I did in the end, but what a struggle it was!

I would like to know how is it that the Chinese will send really cheap stuff including free post but we can't even cover for just the postage if we were to send it back the other way. I mean... The postal services are the bloody same! Once I purchased (from China) a set of 5 cables with crocodile clips at each end, ones used for electronics, total cost, £1.75. Now! That included:
The cables.
The postage from CHINA!
EBay's charges.
PayPal charges.
Packaging
Whatever profit they made.

How the hell do they do it?

Cost of living in the UK is very expensive - thanks mainly to unions pricing manufacturing out of the country and the cost of living in china where labour costs peanuts. Tot that up with the knock on effect of everything else also getting very expensive - greedy local and national government and we soon found that almost every country can produce goods - and ship them cheaper than us.

I must ditch this soap box.

[AirRifleSport]

It doesn't make sense to me... The postal companies have exactly the same processes but in reverse! I can't believe that Royal Mail use cheap Chinese workers to deliver my Chinese post to me.

[tranteruk]

It doesn't make sense to me... The postal companies have exactly the same processes but in reverse! I can't believe that Royal Mail use cheap Chinese workers to deliver my Chinese post to me.

Thanks for the image, needed a laugh this morning. A Chinese postman....delivering your item from China...

[the countryman]

my problem is that the plug / charger disintegrated the first time I used it but I don't no if a normal charger will have any safety feature built in for the 9600 ma battery .
I have other chargers i.e. Tracer battery i.e. Tracer 12v 24AH unit but would the charger be safe or would it over charge and explode !!!
safety is priority with kids in the house !!

thecountryman

[AirRifleSport]

Safety is a priority even without the children in the house, mate.

I don't know if the 24 amp is really any good, as I am not an electronic engineer but from time to time, I have read that some batteries do need a certain amount of amperage to maximise its life.

One of my previous charger did have a LCD display and I could see amperage input information while it was charging. It showed that the amount of mA was higher at the beginning of the charge and less so towards the end.

Hopefully someone else will come to rescue you about this matter... ...mate... ...maybe...might... Oh, I need more coffee.