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tamarind:

hquek,

I went crazy buying books from dangdang when I was in China last year. In the end, my books weighed about 25 kg. My baggage allowance was only 20kg, so I had to ship back the books by China post. The cost of shipping was RMB 350 !

Thanks for sharing about the ka mei la deluxe version. Yes it is a wonderful series and every child must read these books.

i had the same problem, but i din buy 25kg of books, the luggage exceeded 20kg, and i was asked to take out the books at the counter. luckily i kept a few paper/plastic bags and end up lugging them in hand...

[Brenda10]

Hi Tamarind


Kindly help to advise are we able to buy books under 区域购买? So far I see there are ,区域购买 and 购买.

Thank you

[SAHM_TAN]

tamarind:

hquek,

I went crazy buying books from dangdang when I was in China last year. In the end, my books weighed about 25 kg. My baggage allowance was only 20kg, so I had to ship back the books by China post. The cost of shipping was RMB 350 !

Thanks for sharing about the ka mei la deluxe version. Yes it is a wonderful series and every child must read these books.

There's no cheaper method of shipment offered by China Post?

[tamarind]

Brenda10:

Hi Tamarind


Kindly help to advise are we able to buy books under 区域购买? So far I see there are ,区域购买 and 购买.

Thank you

Brenda,
区域购买 means that only certain provinces can buy.

Overseas orders must ship out from Beijing. So if the book is not available in Beijing, then even if it is available in other provinces, dangdang will not ship to us.

However, if we fly to those provinces where the books are available, then we can buy it.

[tamarind]

SAHM_TAN:

tamarind:

hquek,

I went crazy buying books from dangdang when I was in China last year. In the end, my books weighed about 25 kg. My baggage allowance was only 20kg, so I had to ship back the books by China post. The cost of shipping was RMB 350 !

Thanks for sharing about the ka mei la deluxe version. Yes it is a wonderful series and every child must read these books.

There's no cheaper method of shipment offered by China Post?

I think that the spree organizers in SMH are using a cheaper shipping service. But they do not reveal which service they are using.

[CMF]

Can someone kindly assist to provide the Dangdang link to the ka mei la series (deluxe version)? TIA!

[Brenda10]

tamarind:

Brenda,

区域购买 means that only certain provinces can buy.

Overseas orders must ship out from Beijing. So if the book is not available in Beijing, then even if it is available in other provinces, dangdang will not ship to us.

However, if we fly to those provinces where the books are available, then we can buy it.

Hi Tarmarind

Noted with thanks.

[hquek]

CMF:

Can someone kindly assist to provide the Dangdang link to the ka mei la series (deluxe version)? TIA!

This is the one. http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20987854&ref=search-1-pub

BTW, their usual selling price is Y179.40; but I got it for Y135 during a special offer. So if you are not urgent to get it, can wait to see if they have special offers. And this set is impressively heavy - I didn't weigh, but the whole set must be 3kg or something already.

I usually put stuff I like into 我的收藏 - whenever prices are dropped, an email is sent to me. Do like that feature much.

[hquek]

tamarind:

hquek,

I went crazy buying books from dangdang when I was in China last year. In the end, my books weighed about 25 kg. My baggage allowance was only 20kg, so I had to ship back the books by China post. The cost of shipping was RMB 350 !

How to control you tell me? when the books look so tempting, and the prices so amazingly cheap?

Did you pay that price becos you were in the airport already?

Last year I went to Beijing for trip - total number in group 5. 'Thanks' to my books, I managed to hit the 100kg (actually plus a bit) allowance. And I was still lugging many other things by hand. This year a bit worried so I cut down 'brutally' (in my opinion) the stuff I'm buying.

Now whenever I tell DH I want to go China for holiday, he'll look at me knowingly and say 'buy books right'.

[CMF]

hquek:

CMF:

Can someone kindly assist to provide the Dangdang link to the ka mei la series (deluxe version)? TIA!

This is the one. http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20987854&ref=search-1-pub

BTW, their usual selling price is Y179.40; but I got it for Y135 during a special offer. So if you are not urgent to get it, can wait to see if they have special offers. And this set is impressively heavy - I didn't weigh, but the whole set must be 3kg or something already.

I usually put stuff I like into 我的收藏 - whenever prices are dropped, an email is sent to me. Do like that feature much.

Many thanks hquek for info and tips! Appreciate it.