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How long does an order placed with Maelstrom typically take to arrive at a US address?

Thanks!

Not sure, but my last order took less than a week and I live in Tasmania.

Tasmania?

God that explains a thing or two.

I wasn't born here, I was born in England but my family moved when I was two.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Tasmania?

God that explains a thing or two.

Why is your flag USA now? did you move recently?

Dakka has a dodgy server.

I ordered two times from maelstrom; at one time, it took less than a week, the second one took longer. However, that was probably due to our german post being lazy.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Dakka has a dodgy server.

Heh. When I posted from work back when I was working at HP (in the middle of Kentucky, no less) Dakka gave me a French flag.

I have ordered from them several times.. once payment cleared from my Paypal account, it took 5 mailing days tops to get my stuff. Each time, 5 days exactly.

I live in the middle of Ohio.

It really depends if they have their stuff in supply. I've had two orders take over 2 weeks that way.

A little under a week in my experience.

Bookwrack wrote:A little under a week in my experience.

ditto

After placing the order it took about a month for it to get to my residence; the actual shipping time was less than a week and a half.

Cane wrote:After placing the order it took about a month for it to get to my residence; the actual shipping time was less than a week and a half.

Customs?

Gwar! wrote:

Cane wrote:After placing the order it took about a month for it to get to my residence; the actual shipping time was less than a week and a half.

Customs?

Negatory, they had that 17% discount and moved to the new location a week or so prior so I'm guessing that was the main culprit. However on top of that they basically pulled my chain throughout the ordeal by splitting up my order a couple of times and failed to ship it out on the day they specified in an e-mail response (they also didn't respond to my query I sent after that and it took another e-mail for them to respond about when it would finally be shipped). It is worth noting that the item that got split up was a GW direct item (advisors).

I just had an order (Thanks HBMC!) that came in in about a week. Note that the conversion of the prices into US$ on the website is not exact. You're still paying in pounds, no matter what the site says. Still a great deal (especially at 15% off extra).

My first order was pretty quick, less than a week.

My second order I placed on 8/21, and of right now it's still packing.

Another thing to beware of is that their price conversions on their website to US dollars are very rough. Doing the math between what I was quoted on site and what I was actually charged, I saw a 12% increase in price, which makes their prices not nearly as good as they first seemed. Be sure to get the latest conversion rates and do the math yourself before placing the order.

So I ordered 3 items from Maelstrom on 9/3.

1) Prices were way off. My total was almost $15 higher than the webpage said.

2) Its been 5 days since I ordered and its still 'processing'. I've emailed them to find out the status of my order, but haven't heard back yet.

This is certainly not what I expected and unless somehow the order arrives tomorrow - I'm not ordering from them again.

TobintheGnome wrote:So I ordered 3 items from Maelstrom on 9/3.

1) Prices were way off. My total was almost $15 higher than the webpage said.

2) Its been 5 days since I ordered and its still 'processing'. I've emailed them to find out the status of my order, but haven't heard back yet.

This is certainly not what I expected and unless somehow the order arrives tomorrow - I'm not ordering from them again.

I ordered some resin bases and plasticard from back2base-ix recently, and it spent nearly a week in processing. However I was pleasantly surprised when I received double the amount of bases and plasticard than I ordered

Who knows maybe they'll reimburse you for your time? You could always try calling them and asking if there was a problem with your order.

I live in Tasmania.

Ahh tasmania like a warmer version of where I live

They send with FedEx/UPS or by regular mail?

Dark wrote:They send with FedEx/UPS or by regular mail?

They send by regular mail. You honestly can't expect them to be sending with FedEx/UPS/DHL, not with "Free Shipping".

I live on the other side of the globe (in South Korea), and Maelstrom orders typically take 2 full weeks to reach me.

But my last two orders only took 3 business days! That's as fast as FedEx/UPS/DHL!

I don't know whether it was some mistake on their part or something, but I'm fervently hoping that this will continue

so the majority give a pretty good time huh.. 1 week to oz is pretty damn good..

angelbleu wrote:They send by regular mail. You honestly can't expect them to be sending with FedEx/UPS/DHL, not with "Free Shipping".

The free shipping sounds nice, but turns that our local regular mail is a bitch, and it's not common for stuff to be damaged, or to be asked to look for your own package not on the mail office near you, but on the international airport! Of course, all with a tax that's a couple bucks higher than what FedEx charged me last time I bought something from GW.

gakky mail is gakky.

I've gotten both my orders in around one week.

Oh since this thread is about Maelstrom, I'd like to thank HBMC and to a lesser extent Cheese for turning me on to Maelstrom. I've subsequently managed to infect my entire gaming group with the need to buy from Maelstrom.