banno 0 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I am trying to buy my daughter a Rome Vinyl 148cm board for Xmas and I can only seem to find them available in the US at a reasonable price but however they won't ship to AUS. Any suggestions would be appreciated Cheers Banno Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 try a forwarding company. I've used parceliton a couple of times, always had a good experience. They're autralian, btw. Link to post Share on other sites
banno 0 Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 The US company state that they will not send it to a forwarding company.... However thanks for the parceliton tip I will keep that mob in mind for other purchases..thx tripler Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 i've used them with Backcountry. I think The House has something about not shipping to forwarders but I wonder if they'd even know; it just looks like a private address. Link to post Share on other sites
banno 0 Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Yeah your spot on I was using the house ...but...Thanks for the heads up Ive gone through backcountry and seems ok...Cheers Mate Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Your daughter will be stoked ! Rome Vinyl is a good board. Does everything well. Very light board to carry. It pops, carves, pipe .. the base goes pretty fast, too. Soaks a lot of wax, btw. We got a 151. Recommend 151 instead of 148 in powder but still get back leg burn at that length. Link to post Share on other sites
banno 0 Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 awesome wrap jynxx......your not on there payrole are ya I hope she's stoked with it the amount of crap Im going through trying to get one.. Link to post Share on other sites
Chris_3211 0 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 There are a few boarders in the US that do the purchase/shipping for you. If you google cheapsnowboards4u you will come across the site. I brought my libtech skate and a K2 board for a friend and it worked out that I saved about 500 from buying it in Australia. They will friend you on facebook and send you photos when the goods are received. I hope that helps. Link to post Share on other sites
Hardparked 1 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I have a US based address you could ship to (zip code 96379). Worst comes to worst, you could ship it to me and I could EMS or whatever to AUS. Shipping to you would go from Okinawa. Link to post Share on other sites
banno 0 Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 All, thanks for advice and assistamce much appreciated...I got it sorted through backcountry.com easier than I though cheers all Link to post Share on other sites
Hardparked 1 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Backcountry is a great site. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 dont buy from teh house. They have one of the most restrictive shipping policies at the moment. The reason is two fold: First, they are burtons dumping ground. And to secure that contract they agreed to very restrictive sales timetables. I assume (because this part is conjecture) that they also had to agree to conditions that would force them to clamp down on "the grey market" (burton have been very aggressive about this since Jake came back). Second, they bought sierrasnowboards and rebranded it as trusnow. Burton, for obvious reasons (unpaid bills), refuse to do business with sierra or anything to do with Mike Harrosh (the guy who ran sierra), so in order to once agian get burton to play nice they had to pretty much take it up the kiester. Other companies like dogfunk dont have these kinds of demands and will ship to mail forwarders so long as you arent announcing to their customer rep that youre shipping it to a mail forward to get round teh whole export ban. Its a pity, because just a month ago Rome were okay to export. Now theyre not. PS. You can still export them to europe, us and canada according to the dogfunk list. So its just really Asia and Oceania that got hit with it. Link to post Share on other sites
Hardparked 1 Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Dogfunk is run/owned by the same company/is the same company as Backcountry. They are good people and always eager to help. I bought an Osprey backpack from them and found out that they have a lifetime return policy. I don't know what all that applies to, but that's zappo's quality customer service right there. And they price match other online venders. Link to post Share on other sites
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