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I would love to buy more things from MSQ but $40 to send one teeny tiny half hexi template is way too high. Feeling miffed just now.
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I would love to buy more things from MSQ but $40 to send one teeny tiny half hexi template is way too high. Feeling miffed just now.
There is template plastic that you can get at one of your sewing shops. I bought a package and it has six sheets in it with grids and you just use your sissors to cut them out. I bought a different brand than this one..
Amazon.com: vinayl template sheets quilt
Where are you Jeannie ?
I am in the UK . I have found the template product in amazon UK. Cost is in UK £ but supplied by a US company. Why oh why did I not have quilting in my blood when I used to work/travel in the USA? Lol. Thanks for your help ladies
Okay, Jeannie - did you order it and get a huge surprise, or just find that was what the shipping cost would be? There are definitely ways around this though. Sometimes just having a stateside friend who would receive your package and forward it can be less expensive. Also, though I haven't used them, I know several members use a service which will combine their packages and send them at a less expensive way. Maybe someone will chime in and give you some information about that service.
If all you wanted was a small template, I would have been more than happy to send it to you in a card or letter . . .
As Sandy said, someone would be happy to send it on. I'm in Australia and buy 9yds at a time of fabric and it only costs $12 to send from the US.
Is it an MSQC template or another brand? Coz most brands have a distributor in each country, do an Internet search, contact them and find out who your closest retailer is.
Also, remember ANY full hexy template will work if you draw a line across the middle from point to point and use that instead of an edge. You just need to know the finished length of any side on the hexy and buy a full hexy template in that size. A full hexy is just two half hexys after all
Was it the MSQC one for layer cakes? Or charms? Coz I have templates here in most sizes so I can measure mine and work out the size for you if you tell me which one?
If you do this don't forget to add a seam allowance if you want your hexi to finish as wide as it is tall.Quote:
Originally Posted by pamipatch
Oops yep sorry, thanks Claire. I've marked mine with a dotted line across the middle and a solid line 1/4" up. I'm such a doofus, would've realised if I'd actually gone and looked at it lol
I know Al said they were working the international shipping charges calculator thingie. It just seems to spew out crazy shipping charges during check out, but they only charge you the actual cost once the package is together.
I do believe that they try to pack it so you pay the least amount possible, and still protect your merchandise.
Thank you one and all. I will find the tutorial again and find out exactly what it was called and what size it is. It was also on the daily bargain offer a little while ago.
My two layer cakes arrived today so I am very very excited! Lol. I have no problem with paying forty dollars for heavy items but not for a charm pack or a template. I would be interested to know how Pamipatch pays so little? Once again thanks for the help here, it's much appreciated.
Jeannie, I've had the same disappointment. I wanted the wacky web set, but the price of shipping was just toooooo much (to UK).
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Originally Posted by pamipatch
How are they shipping the 9 yards to you for $12.00? 'Cause with the rate increase even a Padded Flat Rate Envelope up to 4 Lbs. runs $23.95. I would like to know, I have friends Down Under that I ship to regularly and I haven't found a cheaper way.
:) Ruby
Jeannie - different businesses have different policies, and some are WAYYYY more willing to help than others!!!
For fabrics, some will bend over backwards to fit as much as possible into a satchel while others don't care. Anywhere between 7 and 9 yards (not flannel etc tho). Same as books, Amazons charge ridiculous postage for what's supposedly priority mail, takes min 2wks to get here, whereas Book Depository is a third of the price and gets here in a week by normal airmail. Send an email BEFORE you place an order, saying you'd like to purchase from their site and how much fabric can they fit in an international satchel. Small amount only or they don't use that method of postage it's forget it, thanks to the Internet you're spoilt for choice and will find somewhere more accommodating. Satchels are fixed price, it's not that hard so it's business suicide to not use them these days, especially when they advertise thru out the world.
So you're having them use the "Book Media" rate and list the stuff enclosed as books/magazines versus fabric or whatever on the custom's form - If it gets opened by customs you'll have to pay the difference in postage, fine, and import taxes. Hmmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by pamipatch
I rather have the person pay me for what they want/actual cheapest shipping and I send it off as a gift...
a template can be sent in a greeting card with some cardboard, done that at least a dozen times already.
The thing with Amazon is that items come from other places and they all have different policies on shipping. For instance.. I bought 7 charm packs. Two came from their warehouse, combined shipping. Two from somewhere else, combined shipping. The last three they sent them all in one package, but charged for each one. I looked that one up and found Amazon is not responsible for others shipping policies.
I try to search for other ways to get things. Living here I have high rates too. Not as much as another country but living on an island I have to shop online a lot. Most places charge like it's another country. lol
Ruby - I must add I haven't bought from overseas in a while so if the rates have gone up in the meantime I'm not much help then.
BUT since our domestic postage has gone up so much too, what you're saying is the new price for the US isn't much dearer than here in Oz.
Always look at the big picture, goods plus postage, and see if its still substantially cheaper. Quality quilting fabric here in Oz costs between $20 and $26 a yard, so if I can get 9 yards at $4 a yard from the US, that postage is still fine.
Most notions are a available everywhere and are the things that are awkward to pack. s I said, research on the Internet, by keyword descriptions first so you can find all the different brands, then search by brand to find your local distributor. Many things I was going to buy from the US are now available here in Oz. I'm sure the UK has caught up too
A designer friend here buys fabric from the US more than I do, I'll send her a message asking when she last did an order and what the postage was and get back to you. Don't know that it'd be right to name businesses here tho
Thanks. Don't think you need to name the business, just the method of how they're shipping or you can PM me the details. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by pamipatch
Most companies add Handling to the actual shipping charges. I had the same problem when we lived in Hawaii, it was like we weren't part of the USA. lol Same for folks who live in Alaska or Puerto Rico.