@Heisenberg_Hunter
Thanks for such a well put together reply!
I have absolutely no idea on this since I have never shipped miner to India, but I am thinking about the possibilities to do something in the future. I might even proceed with my first purchase on how well you receive your order.
i'll try my best to keep this as updated as i can
I have imported and exported various other items including precious metals to and from India and all my experience was that it went good with India Post/USPS or other country posts. There are quite less checking with government postal while comparing with premium shippers. I am going to try importing items using Royal Mail(UK) for the first time in a couple of days and I will try to post an update here.
I would assume thats the exact reason the seller told me about KingTrans being safer, because according to my research the package ultimately ends up being taken care of by the India Post once it enters the country.
Thanks SO SO much for this information, i'll make sure to shoot him a DM the next time i need to order something.
I wonder what the total price difference would be when using an escrow service vs ordering from alibaba (assuming all of this goes well). Because alibaba has quite a huge amount of fees while ordering a miner.
Alibaba charges 3% of the total cost from every sale made by the sellers so the sellers add that 3% in the total cost of the order. Along with that theres a huge amount of visa fees when paying through alibaba.
so i wonder how that would boil down to when compared to the escrow service fees and everything.