Leitz 8mm shaft 10 piece Router Bit Set - $882 Shipping cost???

[krudawg]

I've been searching for 8mm shaft router bit sets and came across this:https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256805696136669.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt  - Only $882 shipping cost; What a deal  

 

[Imemiter]

Those must be exceptionally nice. I hope.  [eek]

I've stocked up on some Bosch carbide sets I found on Amazon. As usual with sets, I haven't used them all (and likely never will.) But the ones I've used so far seemed decent enough. 

 

[xedos]

why don't you email the seller and ask if that's correct.  It's possible the size/weight was entered incorrectly and generated that price.

Better yet, why not just order the bits you REALLY need from Lee Valley ?

 

[rmhinden]

The web site says they are made in China.

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[krudawg]

why don't you email the seller and ask if that's correct.  It's possible the size/weight was entered incorrectly and generated that price.

Better yet, why not just order the bits you REALLY need from Lee Valley ? Didn't Leigh buy Lee Valley recently?

 

[krudawg]

Those must be exceptionally nice. I hope.  [eek]

I've stocked up on some Bosch carbide sets I found on Amazon. As usual with sets, I haven't used them all (and likely never will.) But the ones I've used so far seemed decent enough.

The Bosch Router bit set I purchased from Amazon with an 8mm shaft DID NOT have any roundover bit in the kit.  Seems to me that they should have included one

 

[woodbutcherbower]

Maybe it’s just me being a cynical old Brit again - but I wouldn’t touch ‘Leitz’ or any other ‘Name Brand’ item sold on Aliexpress with a barge pole. The chances of it being substandard knockoff are just too high for me.

 

[thudchkr]

why don't you email the seller and ask if that's correct.  It's possible the size/weight was entered incorrectly and generated that price.

Better yet, why not just order the bits you REALLY need from Lee Valley ?

Didn't Leigh buy Lee Valley recently?

Actually Lee Valley acquired Leigh Tools, not the other way around.

 

[jeffinsgf]

Maybe it’s just me being a cynical old Brit again - but I wouldn’t touch ‘Leitz’ or any other ‘Name Brand’ item sold on Aliexpress with a barge pole. The chances of it being substandard knockoff are just too high for me.

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Those bits from Leitz would be closer to $100 each, rather than $100 for all. 99.9999% sure they're counterfeit.

 

[Sparktrician]

I've been searching for 8mm shaft router bit sets and came across this:https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256805696136669.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt  - Only $882 shipping cost; What a deal

Understand this - they're NOT selling drill bits; they're selling shipping to gullible buyers.  As pointed out, they're very likely to be counterfeit (inferior) products used only to entice the gullible buyer into buying shipping.

 

[Imemiter]

The Bosch Router bit set I purchased from Amazon with an 8mm shaft DID NOT have any roundover bit in the kit.  Seems to me that they should have included one

The 15 piece set has two tiny ROs (6mm and 3mm.) The 30 piece set has a few more large ones, but I can't find it in an 8mm shank anymore. I was more on the hunt for 8mm before I got the OF1400.

 

[twistsol1]

Understand this - they're NOT selling drill bits; they're selling shipping to gullible buyers.  As pointed out, they're very likely to be counterfeit (inferior) products used only to entice the gullible buyer into buying shipping.

And of course, shipping is not refundable.

 

[squall_line]

I don't understand what is meant by "entice the gullible buyer into buying shipping."

What is the goal/end game?

 

[six-point socket II]

Leitz:https://www.leitz.org/fileadmin/Downloads/Lexicon/EN/Leitz_Lexicon_Edition_7_-_05_Routing.pdf

Chapter 5.5

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[Sparktrician]

I don't understand what is meant by "entice the gullible buyer into buying shipping."

What is the goal/end game?

It's a situation in which a seller might charge $100 for the merchandise, but charge $882 for shipping, making the price of the shipping far greater than that of the merchandise.  As pointed out, there is no refund on the shipping, so the seller winds up financially plundering the buyer's wallet for cash for merchandise whose cost to create (say, $60 in this case) is significantly smaller than the cost of shipping.  In this example, the shipping is 14.7 times the cost of manufacturing the merchandise.  Get the picture?

 

[squall_line]

I don't understand what is meant by "entice the gullible buyer into buying shipping."

What is the goal/end game?

It's a situation in which a seller might charge $100 for the merchandise, but charge $882 for shipping, making the price of the shipping far greater than that of the merchandise.  As pointed out, there is no refund on the shipping, so the seller winds up financially plundering the buyer's wallet for cash for merchandise whose cost to create (say, $60 in this case) is significantly smaller than the cost of shipping.  In this example, the shipping is 14.7 times the cost of manufacturing the merchandise.  Get the picture?

I guess I still don't quite understand it.

Perhaps this is due to my inability to understand the sort of thinking that would say "sure, eight hundred dollars to ship a small box that isn't made of glass and isn't being hand-delivered by a white glove single-piece delivery service is completely reasonable" and pull the trigger.

I thought the end game was perhaps getting gullible people to subsidize the overseas shipping costs so that once the products made it State-side, they would be returned and available for distribution with lower shipping costs to other buyers.

Which also makes no sense, because it still relies on the magical thinking that such a small commodity item would ever reasonably cost 7 times the product price to ship.