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Are there "best times" to buy chemicals online?

fusso - 27-3-2019 at 19:01

Are there weekly/monthly/yearly "best times" to buy chemicals online?
ie in terms of: seller sending out the goods the soonest, shortest shipping time(normal mode, not "more expensive but faster" mode), least likely to be delayed/damaged/lost by courier company, least likely to be intercepted/seized by customs (if international) etc

Loptr - 28-3-2019 at 04:13

When you've got the money?

Herr Haber - 28-3-2019 at 04:53

Post offices tend to get clogged between black friday and new year
I'd rather wait a few weeks than order from China during Chinese new year
I cant say I'm happy when I need a low boiling point solvent during summer (okay, that goes for amines too!)

Those I can think off right now.

fusso - 28-3-2019 at 07:05

Quote: Originally posted by Loptr  
When you've got the money?
How much $ you have is a personal factor and can be controlled quite easily, but the other factors I mentioned are external and more difficult to predict and control, so I want to know how they affect shipping chemicals.

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woelen - 28-3-2019 at 07:38

Quote: Originally posted by fusso  
How much $ you have is a personal factor and can be controlled quite easily [...]
It can be observed quite easily, but controlling it is another matter :P

I get your point though ;)

morganbw - 28-3-2019 at 14:10

If you order chemicals and then worry about customs confiscation, well, maybe never is the best time to order.

fusso - 28-3-2019 at 18:55

Quote: Originally posted by morganbw  
If you order chemicals and then worry about customs confiscation, well, maybe never is the best time to order.
I of course know eliminating any factors is impossible, so what I meant is minimizing, not eliminating.

draculic acid69 - 31-3-2019 at 08:32

3-5 am on a Tuesday night in july is the best time to order. :-P

Just don't order over the Xmas period or Chinese New year if ordering from china

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fusso - 31-3-2019 at 09:31

Why July? Why tuesday? Why 3-5am? 3-5am of which timezone?

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Ubya - 31-3-2019 at 09:38

Quote: Originally posted by fusso  
Why July? Why tuesday? Why 3-5am? 3-5am of which timezone?

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he was joking, i hope you are too
trololololol

fusso - 31-3-2019 at 09:43

Hahaha, wely fucking funny. (not fucking funny at all)

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draculic acid69 - 31-3-2019 at 10:33


he was joking, i hope you are too
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I was as for him this link should answer that https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=14...
Read the whole thing

fusso - 31-3-2019 at 13:10

Read. But irrelevant to this.

Corrosive Joeseph - 31-3-2019 at 13:20

Quote: Originally posted by Herr Haber  
Post offices tend to get clogged between black friday and new year



This is the best time to order anything..........'Questionable'........... Post offices and customs are way too busy to give everything the scrutiny it usually gets all year round.


/CJ

SWIM - 31-3-2019 at 17:30

Use astrology to find the best time to buy:
Wait until the Gemini twins are in Uranus.

Or wait for used goods and surplus to turn up. Great deals if you're willing to buy in bulk.
I had to pass up 100 gallons of DMF recently because I just didn't have a place to store it, but such a deal.
And it was in 5 gallon cans, not those big old drums.







Herr Haber - 1-4-2019 at 03:52

Quote: Originally posted by Corrosive Joeseph  
Quote: Originally posted by Herr Haber  
Post offices tend to get clogged between black friday and new year



This is the best time to order anything..........'Questionable'........... Post offices and customs are way too busy to give everything the scrutiny it usually gets all year round.


/CJ


Oooh, a best time in *that* sense !
I thought of it as a more general question.