Purchasing from overseas.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Purchasing from overseas.

gillyb · Senior Member

Doug I've bought many things from Amazon by credit card without any problems and usually it has cost me less than if I had bought the items here, one of them being my Kindle, not sure how the exchange rate is at the moment but it shouldn't be too bad. Hope this helps

hotqld · Veteran Member

Amazon is fine, we have brought jeep parts, kindle and DVD from there

patrolst · Senior Member

When we buy over the internet and can't use paypal we use a debit card and only give those details.

Weedy Pigeon · Senior Member

We've bought 200hp Mariner outboard parts from somewhere in Texas. Service was excellent and prices less than half of what they are here. Paypal was the method of payment from memory.

hotqld · Veteran Member

Aust Post has a Visa credit card
No risk, you preload what you want spend and no one can take any more

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Thankyou all for your responses and the info about Australia Post credit cards, I was unaware of those and will keep them in mind for future reference.

I made some quiet time for myself and did some more investigating on iTunes and found the music was available so I am listening to it as I type this. All downloaded into my account and on my iPad now and I will put on my iPod later.

One happy camper here.

Thankyou again and,

gillyb · Senior Member

Dougwe wrote:
Thankyou all for your responses and the info about Australia Post credit cards, I was unaware of those and will keep them in mind for future reference.

I made some quiet time for myself and did some more investigating on iTunes and found the music was available so I am listening to it as I type this. All downloaded into my account and on my iPad now and I will put on my iPod later.

One happy camper here.

Thankyou again and,

Hi Doug glad you got it sorted. With your music from itunes you need to activate 'The Cloud' so that your music, pics etc automatically download to your ipod, iphone etc, makes it much easier smile

http://www.apple.com/icloud/

-- Edited by gillyb on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 07:37:55 AM

Duh · Guru

Doug I bought a rear end tent from a US company with delivery to my front door by courier by using Master Card, when you made the purchase it was automatically converted from US dollars to Australian dollars for the purchase.

Went off without a hitch and good delivery....

jimricho · Guru

I use Paypal without any worries. PayPal provides a barrier between the vendor and purchaser's credit card or banking details and has a protection policy up to $20,000.

Amazon is one of the world's largest on-line retailers and any credit card transaction would be safe. The credit card details are encrypted and the whole transaction is electronic without any human intervention or anyone being able to see your details.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

For your future use mate.

You do not need to be a member of PayPal to use it, you just put your CC details into PayPal as a once off transaction and they pay the seller.

PayPal is safe as houses.

BohemianGypsy · Guru

Hey there my friend,

I have bought heaps of stuff from Amazon and it is as safe as houses in my opinion. I have also purchased from heaps of other online stores from the US, Hong Kong, Thailand and England and nothing has ever happened to my account but I mostly use paypal however I know on Amazon you have to use your credit card so go for it Doug smile smile smile smile

Michelle

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Howdy doody there Michelle, It's all sorted and done and dusted my friend. All done through iTunes and now on my Laptop, iPad and iPod but for some reason I can't get it onto my iPhone, bugger. I spose 3 out of 4 is not too bad.

patrolst · Senior Member

Have you download the app to sync you computer with your i-phone.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Not sure what App that is sorry Jim. So to answer your question, no.

patrolst · Senior Member

The app is an application that you should be able to get from i-tunes.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I will check it out.

I opened iTunes on my iPhone and found the music sitting there so downloaded to the iPhone. All music I have referred to is now on all 4 devices.

patrolst · Senior Member

Good to hear it all worked out well Doug.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Thanks Jim and everyone else that helped out as well, here, PM's and email.

Duh · Guru

Just wanted to add I pay for my overseas and other purchases by MasterCard, I bank with Bendigo Bank and as part of that I have an Authentication Key Device which looks like a car remote. So as well as using the usual id and password when making a transaction, you also have to use an Authentication Key Number which is shown by this device by pressing a button. These are scrambled numbers and you never get the same number twice, and the transaction will not be processed without it.

So even if your account is hacked, nobody can access your funds without having this device which is in your possession. I have never had a problem with it.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I have heard of that device before I think Vic, good idea by the sounds of it. I am with Westpac and will be in a branch in a few days so will make enquiries if they have something similar.

I might even ring my mastercard supplier and see if they do anything similar as well, I don't have a bank credit card and do not pay any fees.

I must say though I like the idea of the Aust Post Visa thing, I am going to check those out too.

Duh · Guru

My MasterCard is a Debit Card Doug (using my own savings) the scrambled number device is supplied by Bendigo for a small fee (was $16) I don't know what kind of battery is in it, I've been using mine for about 3 or 4 years and it is still going strong......