Item in limbo?

[Wo1f]

Ordered something from Evike and it was sent via USPS. Their tracker stops once it’s left the country and it ended with:

Your item departed a transfer airport in HEATHROW, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM on October 26, 2018 at 12:45 pm.

Now.. Royal Mail recognises the tracking number but has no info on it. I’ve even phoned them and they said they haven’t received it. Usually if it’s being held by customs I get a notification, but the package is currently untraceable. 

There any number i can phone to find out where the hell it is?

 

[BigStew]

Try HMRC web site for a number for customes. If you are waiting on a rif and your ukara is not on the package be prepared to wait customes is always under stafted  

 

[Wo1f]

It’s just a top rail. A 12” long bit of aluminium. I phoned a few hmrc numbers and got the whole “nothing to do with us” speech. I’ll have another look. 

 

[skintrade]

Had similar happen with things once they arrive with RM (I'm sure there's a bucket of stuff with my name on it, just sat in a Royal Mail sorting office), all of a sudden things just arrive with me and never show up on RMs system at all. I've tracked stuff from US, HK, Eastern EU, and AU to the UK where tracking seems to just evaporate, then suddenly there's a pile of stuff on my doorstep.

 

[Wo1f]

Hopefully this is the case. I’ll give it a week. If not I’ll take it up with Evike

 

[sonofsammo]

If it's shipped with USPS, it normally transfers to parcel farce.

Have you tried their tracking?

 

[Druid799]

Hopefully this is the case. I’ll give it a week. If not I’ll take it up with Evike

Best of luck mate , odds are if you do try to contact Evike and IF they reply it’ll more than likely be a “tuff s**t not our problem !” Reply !

there international customer ‘service’ is legendary for being bad .

 

[Wo1f]

Best of luck mate , odds are if you do try to contact Evike and IF they reply it’ll more than likely be a “tuff s**t not our problem !” Reply !

there international customer ‘service’ is legendary for being bad .

That’s what PayPal is for. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, but we’ll see. Getting thoroughly pissed off with airsoft stores at the minute. It can’t be this difficult to manage inventory and CS.. 

If it's shipped with USPS, it normally transfers to parcel farce.

Have you tried their tracking?

Yeah. It says it’s a Royal Mail number. I can type it into RM and it accepts it, but it still thinks it’s not in the country 

 

[Druid799]

Getting thoroughly pissed off with airsoft stores at the minute. It can’t be this difficult to manage inventory and CS.. 

You’d think not BUT ? To be honest these days it’s the main reason I send nearly all my Airsoft beer tokens to Poland . Yes postage is a bit steep but at least I know if it’s on the TG site it’s in stock AND it’ll take less than a wk to reach me .

 

[Wo1f]

You’d think not BUT ? To be honest these days it’s the main reason I send nearly all my Airsoft beer tokens to Poland . Yes postage is a bit steep but at least I know if it’s on the TG site it’s in stock AND it’ll take less than a wk to reach me .

That’s exactly what I’d do if they had what I was looking for. TG is fantastic. But as it happens, I’m looking for unicorn horn and fairy dust parts. Nobody answers messages or emails, so you’re forced to pay up and then just see if it appears.

 

[Druid799]

That’s exactly what I’d do if they had what I was looking for. TG is fantastic. But as it happens, I’m looking for unicorn horn and fairy dust parts. Nobody answers messages or emails, so you’re forced to pay up and then just see if it appears.

What exactly you after bud ? I know you’ve ‘hopefully’ got one on the way but I could put my aged but still vaguely useful team mates on it to track one down (half the feckers are retired anyway so give em something to do !?) .

 

[Wo1f]

@Druid799 Im building a mk12 mod 0 (ish) rifle with one of my Tm MWS gbbr’s.  I’ve bought the madbull carbon fibre PRI handguard and I ordered the 12.5” PRI top rail from evike (because the £70 rail is an optional extra in a £180 airsoft handguard?). That is the potentially missing item in question. 

Ive ordered a G&P rifle length buffer tube that will fit a PRS stock and a G&P a2 buffer (both new products for the mws) from Tiger111hk. They took my money and then told me they didn’t actually have them. After threatening them with PayPal, they’ve magically came back in stock and have been sent to me. We’ll see if anything actually arrives..

Im still looking for a PRS stock. Either a PTS or element replica. Doesn’t matter if it’s gbb or aeg as I don’t need the buffer anyway. 

On top of that... ordered an Sbal-pl weapon light and RMR for my FNX .45 from AliExpress.. on the app you can track it and it says it’s shipped and whatever... but if you type that tracking number into 17track, the number doesn’t exist!

American and everywhere in Asia (bar Japan) is fucking useless..

 

[Druid799]

@Druid799 Im building a mk12 mod 0 (ish) rifle with one of my Tm MWS gbbr’s.  I’ve bought the madbull carbon fibre PRI handguard and I ordered the 12.5” PRI top rail from evike (because the £70 rail is an optional extra in a £180 airsoft handguard?). That is the potentially missing item in question. 

Ive ordered a G&P rifle length buffer tube that will fit a PRS stock and a G&P a2 buffer (both new products for the mws) from Tiger111hk. They took my money and then told me they didn’t actually have them. After threatening them with PayPal, they’ve magically came back in stock and have been sent to me. We’ll see if anything actually arrives..

Im still looking for a PRS stock. Either a PTS or element replica. Doesn’t matter if it’s gbb or aeg as I don’t need the buffer anyway. 

On top of that... ordered an Sbal-pl weapon light and RMR for my FNX .45 from AliExpress.. on the app you can track it and it says it’s shipped and whatever... but if you type that tracking number into 17track, the number doesn’t exist!

American and everywhere in Asia (bar Japan) is fucking useless..

I had that happen on an AOR1 fast helm from Aliexpress , tracking all hunky dory on the site but feck all anywhere else ! ? I claimed my money back through my credit card in the end as Paypal were dicking around .

 

[Wo1f]

Well, I’ve just come home to this, so that’s one off my list. Bittersweet as it is. This is the one I had to chase with Tiger111hk. It arrived quickly after me threatening PayPal, and no customs fees. Just annoying that things sent from the same side of the world weeks ago still haven’t gotten to me 

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[Davegolf]

MWS goodies ?

 

[Gepard]

Have you tried using 17track? I've sometimes had it showing more recent updates than the actual courier service's tracking system!

Glad one of your parcel arrived tho. Sometimes things just take longer than expected - especially when ordering abroad. 

 

[Wo1f]

Have you tried using 17track? I've sometimes had it showing more recent updates than the actual courier service's tracking system!

Glad one of your parcel arrived tho. Sometimes things just take longer than expected - especially when ordering abroad. 

Tried 17 track for them all. The Sbal-PL doesn’t work on any so I’ve put a PayPal claim in. This is what the one from Evike is saying..

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[Druid799]

Have you tried using 17track? I've sometimes had it showing more recent updates than the actual courier service's tracking system!

Glad one of your parcel arrived tho. Sometimes things just take longer than expected - especially when ordering abroad. 

Read the last but one line ya plank ! ?‍

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[Immortal]

I find tracking drops off once a customs charge is about to arrive...

 

[Wo1f]

I find tracking drops off once a customs charge is about to arrive...

I hope your right.. because according to that tracking, it’s left the US, got to the UK, went back to the US, come back to the UK..

Just wish that if it is a customs issue, they’d just pull my pants down and get on with it. The not knowing where stupid amounts of my spending is, is frustrating.