Hop Shop Go experience I made a few orders from Forever 21 and Amazon recently, using a shipping dhlforyou service called Hop Shop Go . I used this service because international dhlforyou shipping rates from Forever 21 are quite steep normally, and the items I ordered from Amazon were not available for shipment outside the US. Therefore, I signed up to Hop Shop Go for free and decided to use their service to provide me with a US address dhlforyou I could get packages delivered to, and then have HSG deliver everything to me in my home in Australia. I placed an order on Forever dhlforyou 21 and got free domestic dhlforyou shipping for my order worth $62, as you get free shipping for orders over $50 within the US. For international orders this order worth $62 would've cost $48 for shipping. In the billing address I put in my normal address in Australia, dhlforyou and for the shipping address I logged into Hop Shop Go to find my US address. It was some place in Oregon and I just put that in. After the order was processed, and shipped from Forever 21 to the address in Oregon, I received dhlforyou a notification email from Hop Shop Go saying my order had arrived. The email also said at the bottom "We provide free storage for your package in the U.S. up to 30 days." This is not entirely true, as if you go to this page here you only get 15 days of free storage, and only Hop Shop Go Prime rewards members get 30 free storage days. You won't become a Prime member if this is your first shipment using HSG's services, so I really only got 15 free storage days. I actually overlooked the fact that storage fees existed at all and ended up paying $62.15 to Hop Shop Go because of the storage fees included. This sucked, as this meant I paid more than if I had simply ordered from Forever 21 directly and paid $48 for international shipping. Nonetheless, this mistake of mine makes for a really good lesson to myself in the future and to any readers of my blog who might be interested in using Hop Shop Go. The broader lesson dhlforyou is to read the fine print and to log into your account, to check if there were any unexpected fees added on . In this case, I found out you only get 15 free storage day s and according to that page here , you cop $1 storage fee per extra day past those 15 days. My initial plan was to consolidate several different packages together and then ship them out all at once, to save on shipping fees. However as the storage fees had become quite high already ($33) and would only be creeping up more and more with each day, I decided to ship this package out first. I then received this shipping confirmation email. Below are also the additional costs Hop Shop Go charged.
$0.59 This means that had I not incurred the storage fees, and if I had shipped this package out by itself, using Hop Shop Go's service is still cheaper than international shipping directly from Forever 21: Forever 21 would've charged $48 for international shipping to Australia, and Hop Shop Go would've charged me $29.15. This is a saving of $18.85. Despite the inclusion of fuel surcharges and mandatory insurance, it was still cheaper to use Hop Shop Go. The shipping from Hop Shop Go was also very fast. That shipping notification email was sent on the 22nd of July and I received the package on the 26th. Would I use Hop Shop Go again? I like how HSG provides notification emails for when your package arrives at the US address dhlforyou they provide you. When you log into your account at HSG, you can easily dhlforyou see how many storage days you have left, how much in storage fees you have incurred, and the invoices for each package. (I obviously did not log into HSG very often at all so I totally missed seeing all those unexpected storage fees.) If you however remember to log in regularly or simply never leave your packages over the 15 day storage limit however, HSG is actually a very useful service . Some places dhlforyou impose such ridiculously high international shipping fees, and some places might not even ship to your country at all. With HSG you can access all those items you need and often at a lower shipping rate. So for those situations, then yes I would use HSG again .
Forever 21 is a clothing chain store that is really popular in the US and Canada, and seems to market itself towards dhlforyou teens and young women looking for the latest trends at very affordable prices. No physical stores have opened up in Australia, but international shipping is available on the Forever 21 website. However in the past few years I think the shipping fees have become dhlforyou quite unreasonable, by increasing with the more you purchase. Before that, there was a cap where above this amount, international shipping dhlforyou would be free. Now it seems there is no longer that incentive to add more to your cart. This is why I resorted to Hop Shop Go to cut down those shipping fees.
For those of my readers who haven't been able to physically walk into a Forever 21 and check the stock out themselves, I've done a little review of the stuff I ordered. I know a
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