Here’s some Aero alternatives to checkout:
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Buying from Bambu is the slowest shipping i’ve ever experienced anyway. That’s assuming they have stock and i’m talking about their usa and uk online stores.
Common Cathode 7 Segment LEDs are a very commonly purchased item as are many other colours.
FDM is on the upswing in New Zealand and sales are booming, and if they didn’t find business in New Zealand profitable why sell to them in the first place?
I think you will find a very high proportion on New Zealand people on the Bambu and Creality sites… The fact that Bambu has dropped NZers in it like this has handed the business to the competition. They were not by the way maintaining a separate online store for one very small country, I was buying from their US site so no “maintenance” was necessary - instead they would have had to go out of their way to exclude us from purchasing direct.
By the way your better than thou response comes across as very narcissistic and arrogant, I can do something about the issues I’m facing because of Bambu - can you do something about yours?
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I’ve not usually had a problem with shipping times, in what part of the world are you?
Thank you - that response at least offers some useful information.
Hopefully one of these will serve as a stand in. The ASA-Aero from Qidi tech looks like the do’s ill check out its specs.
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Have you complained to Dawn and posted on their community forum stomping your feet and ranting about how they are “Done!” because they have chosen to not provide you with a unscented soap at a reasonable cost that they sell to the rest of the world?
Haha.
So, there’s a tent by a particular manufacture I want. They sell in the UK, but not in the USA, and are nearly impossible to get here. It’s so frustrating. I’ve seen them pop up every once in a blue moon. I managed to purchase one once and it was amazing, and I loved it, but then the ex happened, and I don’t have it anymore.
I don’t even get the luxury of having local resellers trying to over charge me for it. Ugh, at this point I would even find that acceptable. I haven’t even found a UK retailer that’d ship the dang thing to me.
It’s not the manufactures fault. It’s just life and reality sometimes. I like Marklin trains too. The local shops that sell that stuff, sell old dumb models and they’re horribly over priced. Getting stuff online can be tough.
I’m sorry for your troubles, VaultDweller, but I don’t think it’s fair to take that out on Bambu. I think it’s more appropriate to curse the world at large.
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My question is, can you buy other chinese brands from the webites still? Is bambu the only company in the region that has done this? If so, it kinda kills other posters arguments. I guarantee bambu has better profit margins on most items than the other brands. This was most likely to maximise profits vs just maintaining profitability. And if it is the only company, it means others have been willing to take a lower profit in order to save the end user money and also give them a better supply lines. Ultimately, you want both. Direct and local to give the customer flexibility and to help with things like shipping companies going on strike. Bambu seems to have jumped right past the small company, love thy customer phase and hopped right into the corporate phase.
I have not needed too, turns out a lot of 3D officiants have been doing so already with a lot of Dawns customers who use it for its intended purpose -washing dishes being unhappy about the “disgusting scent that has been added”.
If you can’t say something constructive I suggest you not respond.
From my perspective if Bambu were doing this to everyone - that would be reasonable, doing this to one country is not.
UK usually takes 3-4 days to arrive at doorstep (EDIT for filament, printers take longer), but the recent black friday was an exceptionalyl long time. Then again, these adys, 3-4 days is a long time with so many platforms being able to offer next day delivery
USA delivery takes a while for most things that arent delivered by app-riders Their mail system is bad. Long roads and low taxes lead to problems with infrastructure.
Yes I can, I have and I am, if I am to understand correctly Bambu has only done this to New Zealand, quite happy to be corrected on this.
Have you considered the other side of the argument?
Judging by
the reason is not bambu directly, but the fact that shipping to NZ is hard and expensive. You and others in the linked thread are understandably angry, but the way around that could be to do a group buys and shipping via container or even better: become a reseller and put out of business those resellers that are scalping customers in NZ.
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Care to explain how your original post is at all constructive? You can suggest all you want but I also suggest that you adhere to your own suggestions.
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They have no obligation to serve every country though. You talk like it’s some slight against you. It’s frustrating, but it’s not personal?
That was my point. There’s a number of products that are difficult to find here in America, and this country is huge! But it’s not reasonable to take it so personal. It’s the reality of life sometimes. You can’t always get what you want. If you try sometimes though, you just might find, you get what neeeeeeed. 
But seriously, it does suck. I’m not trying to say it doesn’t.
I probably could have made similar complaints against Prusa and their shipping to America. The back breakingly high cost. It’s like finally they’re actually putting some effort into providing printers to the America market, via their partner. What’s shipping a Prusa to NZ look like?
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Have not shipped a Prusa so could not comment, although am impressed looking at the Prusa XL, as an aside Creality if you purchase a refurbed machine I believe ship it free from the states to NZ, those machines are obviously lower spec but hey if that is all you need free freight is a nicety.
I guess we should all just agree that bambu cant do what creality, elegoo, (fill in space with every other chinese company) can? And alot of times for free. Im so confused because I see bambu as the top company.
People need higher standards for their companies of choice.
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There may be an answer in New Zealand’s tax laws depending how Bambu shipped. If they had a distributor in NZ and got high value shipments in containers or however, there is a 15% import tax that would drive prices up.
If they ship piecemeal from a distributor outside of New Zealand, the distributor gets to fill out customs forms out the wazoo to get lots of little boxes across the border. Not sure how the $1000 value cutoff is calculated but it could be Bambu was still paying the import duty.
At least you won’t be alone soon. Here in the US we are about to see customs import duties affect all sorts of things probably including Bambu printers, filament, and parts too.
huh wat does it mean
Prusa ( I just went and looked ) will ship the XL to NZ for 800 USD.