fusso
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Are there "best times" to buy chemicals online?
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
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When you've got the money?
"Question everything generally thought to be obvious." - Dieter Rams
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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.
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fusso
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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.
[Edited on 190328 by fusso]
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It can be observed quite
easily, but controlling it is another matter 
I get your point though 
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If you order chemicals and then worry about customs confiscation, well, maybe never is the best time to order.
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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.
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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
[Edited on 31-3-2019 by draculic acid69]
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Why July? Why tuesday? Why 3-5am? 3-5am of which timezone?
[Edited on 190331 by fusso]
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he was joking, i hope you are too
trololololol
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fusso
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Hahaha, wely fucking funny. (not fucking funny at all)
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he was joking, i hope you are too
trololololol[/rquote
I was as for him this link should answer that https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=14...
Read the whole thing
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fusso
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Read. But irrelevant to this.
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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
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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.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Corrosive Joeseph |
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.
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