Thanks Wendy. I regularly use Youshop from 2 different overseas locations, They are competitive with DHL albeit far slower but they are much dearer than the standard book service offered by other companies. Without knowing the weight of these I don’t know if they are cheaper than Legacy price. For 1.5 kg Youshop would charge U$26.5. (plus any US domestic charges). I was looking for under $20 I will check the others you mention, I am a member of Consumer NZ
There is a risk using Youshop or similar though. The parcel from Amazon US that arrived via Youshop last week had the wrong item - one worth half the value of that I ordered. Amazon accepted their error based on photographic evidence but will not ship the what I ordered until they have the incorrect one -- returned to the US at my cost. Had Amazon shipped directly to me they would have met the cost of returning the incorrect item by FedEx Cheers Stan -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard [mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 3:08 p.m. To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to decide between Rootsmagic and Legacy 8 (or just stay with FTM for now) Hi Stan, Have you considered using one of the parcel-forwarding services that ship to New Zealand? Consumer magazine recently looked at YouShop (https://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/youshop), and compared it to USGoBuy (http://www.usgobuy.com/), Stackry (http://www.stackry.com/) and Viabox (https://www.viabox.com/), and thought the NZ Post service (YouShop) stacked up well against the others. The report is on page 17 of the Dec 2015/Jan 2016 magazine (your library may have the magazine if you don't have your own), or at https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/parcel-forwarding-services - you need to be logged in as a member to read the whole page. This may be a cheaper option than having goods shipped directly to you. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy Stan wrote on 15/12/2015 08:49: > I had intended to buy that and another book from Legacy Store to be shipped > to NZ. I often buy from US book shops and typically have to pay U5 for a > single book and no more for U$12 for two or three sent combined. They call it > second class mail but it is always delivered to me in NZ within 15 days often > within 5 days. > > Regrettably the Legacy store only offers one delivery method described as > "Best way International" No further details of what that "way" is. For the 2 > books in my purchase cart that delivery cost was U$37. It might be the best > way for Legacy but it sure isn’t the Best Way for me. > > I am not interested in a PDF ONLY purchase and if and when there is a > satisfactory option for shipping at less than half of the "Best Way" > cost I will purchase them too > > Cheers from Stan Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
