Buying things abroad is profitable. We know this for the reason that many imported items that fall on the domestic shelves are fairly offered at a higher price due to cheating by importers and intermediaries. Accordingly, buying something directly from abroad, you can save a lot bypassing these same markups. So many of our compatriots do.
Online shopping
The era of the Internet and globalization have done their job: today a resident of Kostroma can easily order a mobile phone from some resident of Ohio and in real time contact him, specifying details. You can do this on the eBay site, having settled with the seller using the PayPal payment system. The only problem in this case is delivery. Read about how to solve it in this article.
What are they buying?
First, let's take a look at what our compatriots most often buy abroad. These are goods manufactured in other countries (most often in the USA), known for their high quality - branded clothing, shoes, accessories, mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, players) and more. Almost all of this, of course, can be bought from us (with the exception of the products of companies that are focused exclusively on the domestic market), but at a much higher price. When ordering goods directly from overseas, customers not only save, but also receive a guaranteed high-quality product (and not another Chinese copy).
How to pay?
With the way you can order something from the United States, questions usually do not arise - for this purpose there are many online auctions, message boards, online supermarkets, which are also available in our country. But what about payment? It is obvious that the electronic currencies of Russia, such as WebMoney, Yandex.Money or Qiwi, will not be accepted there, and this is true. With rubles on bank cards, conversion problems may also occur. The answer is simple: PayPal, which works with dollars on a bank card, is useful. With its help, it will not be difficult to pay off a counterparty from across the ocean. Based on this system, in particular, there is a settlement between the participants in the eBay auction.
How to deliver? Intermediary services
In addition to payment and ordering, there is the most serious question that arises before those wishing to order goods from the USA. This is the delivery. Not all sellers on the same eBay are ready to send parcels abroad, especially in the Russian Federation. Therefore, a problem may arise that services similar to LiteMF are designed to solve.
Reviews about him indicate that the company provides services for storing and sending goods from the United States to Russia (and not only). Thanks to it, each customer has the opportunity to solve the problem that we wrote about above - the delivery of goods from across the ocean. Read about how the service works, what reviews about it most often leave by users and what it can offer, read in this article.
LiteMF. Description
The principle of this company is extremely simple. She has a physical address in the United States where the warehouse of goods is located. A user who wants to order something on eBay (or, say, on Amazon or in any other store) can indicate this address as a delivery point. In turn, LiteMF (reviews of which we will give a little further) is engaged in the collection of such goods. In the future, the service forwards the parcel to the delivery service and indicates your physical address in Russia as the destination address. After some time (most often a few weeks, depending on several factors), the product will be in your hands.
Due to the fact that LiteMF exists, the delivery of goods is carried out in two stages, therefore it is simplified. You do not need to explain to the American seller how to send the thing of interest to Russia - now all this will be done by representatives of the service intermediary. Of course, for a small commission.
Service benefits
Firstly, what LiteMF does (reviews confirm this) is convenient for both the buyer and seller. Secondly, the service provides a number of additional services (photographs of goods received by them in the USA, on-site verification, re-packaging, etc.). Some of these options are provided free of charge, which saves you money and sometimes can even protect rights if the goods turn out to be not of the same quality as expected.
Thirdly, sending a parcel from the USA to the Russian Federation, the service provides an additional tracking number to track your LiteMF processed goods. Reviews of the service show that in this way the customer gets the opportunity to know at what stage his package is.
More information about other services can be found on the company's website. Many of them are really free - removal of packaging material, preparation of payment documents, provision of data on the delivery of goods, etc. Storing things in a warehouse in the United States is again free - before the company sends your package to a Russian address.
Reviews
The normal desire of any user who wants to order something on the Internet at a foreign auction is to check the recommendations about a particular company. In this case, it will not be superfluous to review the reviews left about LiteMF of those who have already used the services of an intermediary. Which we did as part of this article.
First of all, it became clear that the company is relatively new - it began its activities only in 2014. Due to this, of course, a lot of reviews have not yet been left about her to say at what level her services are provided.
On the official LiteMF website, delivery reviews, of course, are presented in all its glory - here people write about how well the support service works, how quickly the goods were delivered and the like. If we go to various forums where people who have experience working with the service communicate, there the recommendations will be less encouraging. Many write that LiteMF (the delivery service in question) is a project of another service that has managed to prove itself not from the best side. Other users suspect that the company is renting warehouses of other services, and you should not trust it.
However, those who have already ordered something through this service, note that not everything is so bad - the company sends money and goods, which means they cannot be called scammers. You can find separate LiteMF reviews about the delivery service, which say, for example, that the extra $ 10 is overpaid for services because the company increased the weight of the package at the last moment. Although here, representatives of the service gave an official explanation of why this happened. There are several similar incidents. Still, for example, some complain about the loss of funds due to the order of low-quality goods. However, there was nothing to do with the service, because the seller was engaged in sending the lot, and, as evidenced by the reviews, it was from his side that there was a “setup” - a discrepancy between the description of the lot and its actual condition. This can happen to anyone, including counterparties on eBay who work without intermediaries.
The service employees are present at most of these forums, give explanations for each case, and offer discounts on the following orders on behalf of LiteMF.
General impression
Yes, perhaps the service is new, maybe even just a renamed company that has been on the market before. Despite this, they have really attractive prices for services (they include exclusively the cost of delivery to Russia), which may already become an argument in favor of trying to order through them.
In all other respects, the operation of the LiteMF service (reviews confirm this) cannot be satisfactory. The company regularly delivers goods purchased in the USA to the territory of Russia, due to which it will grow its customer base over time, which means that more positive reviews will appear.
As for the negative recommendations that can be found at the moment, they all received an adequate assessment from the service employees, therefore, we can talk about the company's real support for its customers.