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Thread: 12L14 Steel purchasing online
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12th Jun 2019, 01:33 PM #16Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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Back in 2007 I purchased a total of 23kg of good quality tool steel from a mob in the US called Enco (unfortunately no longer exist).
One 18kg lot was part of group buy and the rest I bought for myself. The 18kg lot included pieces up to 36" long which I cut up and reposted to about 5 other members. At the time the exchange rate was >US85c in the AU$ plus the postage visa USPS was slow (8 weeks) but very reasonably priced, The 18kg lot was ~AU$100 and arrived wrapped in newspaper along with the tattered remains of a cardboard box inside a tough canvas drawstring USPS postal bag. I guess someone either caused of saw the box disintegrate and did that. I still have the bag
I see Enco has been replace by a mob called MSCdirect and they say they will port most stuff to AUS. The seem to have most of what Enco had. Anyone bought from them?
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12th Jun 2019, 01:50 PM #17Most Valued Member
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MSC are pretty expensive on most things I find, but I have bought a couple of things. They also own J and L in the UK I think.
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13th Jun 2019, 10:16 AM #18Most Valued Member
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13th Jun 2019, 05:09 PM #19
Appreciate the replies everyone.
Just had a phone call and my small order will be ready to pick up after 11.00am tomorrow !
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13th Jun 2019, 06:32 PM #20Pink 10EE owner
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13th Jun 2019, 08:20 PM #22Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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I think it was bound to come whether trump was in or not. I think that they fInally have woken up as to what REAL freight cost. Prior to that USPS was subsidising so much cheap OS parcel post there was no way they could even pay their former employee pension plans let alone their current employees plans and were tasked to get their house in order and that's when their freight shot up. Private companies took the opportunity to gouge and away it all went.
Australia post was in the same situation and are losing money hand over fist dealing distributing all the small value imports - don't know how long that can be sustained. There was talk of adding a $5 per item charge a year or so to cover these costs - it will come up again soon.\
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Much of this cheap freight we see out of Asia is highly subsidised by govt postal services and pennies an hour workers. It simply won't be sustained. I have notice some aliexpress and other chinese sites where the freight has recently gone up eg CTC tools.
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