Importing from Japan or Taiwan

[Kls77]

So question from any one imported a gun form Japan or Taiwan. How long did it take . Take to clear customs and what charges was people getting . Thinking using sixxmm or octaganairsoft . Maybe someone else for pp19 gbbr if nay one now's a good dealer to use ??

Cheers in advance

 

[samjay]

sorry i can't help at all. but just beware of using sixxmm i have seen a lot on reddit and other sites saying how items didn't turn up, how long it took, how bad their communication is and more. i wanted to buy parts for my mws and i was told by lot of people to stay away and buy it somewhere else

 

[Shotround]

I have an order incoming from Sixmm - 5 items, of the 5 so far, 2 have cleared customs (the stock adaptor, stock tube and butt stock, I dont know yet) this is my first order and so far so good.
I know they have a whatsapp group you can join, the local marshall at my site says they are very good.

JKarmy - ordered lots over the years never had any issues

ToySoldier, back in the day i ordered from, pretty sure they were HK based, although cant find them now.

Impulse 101 and Airsoft Artisan i plan to order more stuff in the coming year, heard good things about them.


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EDIT
ive never ordered a rift overseas, from what ive heard put your UKARA in the comments/ask for it on the box and its no issue.
customs/import is always hit or miss and youll get notified from the carrier, IIRCC its (base + 2.5% + shipping - +20% on that total) which still works out very good,

 

[Austeyr]

Ordering from sixmm, you’re brave
Charges are usually 20% of the cost minus shipping I do believe. Shipping times obviously depends on what shipping service you use, I’d avoid UPS as 99% of the time they’ll need forms regardless of if it’s a rif or not. Customs hold up typically seems to be 3 - 7 days if it gets pulled. I’ve had orders from China ship to me in 6 days, I’ve also had orders take 2 months (using the same shipping service)
It’s mostly a luck of a draw thing tbh

One thing for certain is though that if you order from Sixmm you have a 99.99% chance you’ll have some kind of issues like wrong items, missing items or they just straight up won’t ship it out for weeks. Terrible, terrible, terrible company

 

[LMKipper]

Impulse101 are excellent - I once ordered something on a Monday and it dropped through my letterbox on Friday!

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

18Airsoft have been the best of the bunch for me- very often turns up in a week,all orders I've made with them so far have been excellent.

 

[Shotround]

Some decent prices, have you brought RIFs through them?

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

My experience of 6mm was poor
I ordered a VFC OSW from them as it was showing in stock on their website, and it was the cheapest. I waited 3 days and got a “sorry the item isn’t in stock” email from them.
Then waited and waited, emailed them for a refund which they ignored.
I ended up having to do a PayPal resolution and then got a refund the same day.
I bought from a uk store, which was just as well as I received faulty mags with the replica, which was easily sorted out. I’ve no doubt I would have been ignored and left with the duff units if I had bought from 6mm
Alls well that ends well
Oh, a shout out to @airsoftworld for good service

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

Some decent prices, have you brought RIFs through them?

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Mostly parts, but I have bought a G17 and a M1911 from them in the past (separate orders). Both came through with no problem. I made sure that I put my UKARA number as the first line of my address. From memory i selected 'EMS' as the shipping option. Beware (if you haven’t already worked it out) that the shipping gets more expensive the heavier that your order is - this is mostly true for the Hong Kong based suppliers.