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I've ordered tons of stuff from China on eBay mostly leds. They usually take at least two weeks and I've had a few take over a month but they always show up.

That being said a lot of people's definition of "music" is a clipped 30 hz sine wave with some 80 IQ knuckle head grunting about committing crimes and his genitals.

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I've ordered a few things and they've taken 2-3 weeks for me.

"Clipping" is the biggest forum boner now. It's like witchcraft... it automatically explains just about everything people don't understand.

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Here is what it looks like now:

Processed Through Sort Facility
Jul-27-14, 09:12 AM, SHENZHEN EMS
Processed Through Sort Facility
Jul-27-14, 09:12 AM, SHENZHEN EMS
Origin Post is Preparing Shipment
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I've had delivery times from 1-3 weeks. No rhyme or reason to it.

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Estimated Delivery: Sat. Aug. 2 - Sat. Aug. 16

eBay "estimates" are complete bullshit based on best case scenario and pure luck. They're designed to 1: Trick rookie buyers into buying things in hope that they'll get them faster than they likely will, and 2: Leave buyers disappointed in sellers so that eBay can pooch them out of "top rated" seller fee discounts when their feedback rating suffers when the postal system can't deliver on eBay's promises.

In short, fuck eBay.

That being said, I've had anything from 2-6 weeks with small parcels from China... mostly pure luck I think. What I'm wondering is if you were just ordering semiconductors, why you didn't just go through Mouser or someone domestic???

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I think that's about what to expect from eBay. Most of the time my girlfriend will buy stuff from China like noserings, earrings and things like that.

Sometimes it's as quick as 2 weeks and other times we've waited over a month.

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came to this thread to recommend soundqubed and ct sounds. OP goes with soundstream.

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