how to buy from US site lenovo.com when living in europe

Hi all,
Has anyone tried successfully to order a notebook from lenovo.com for when you are living in europe? If you have a shipping address in US it could work right? Or do they check up if the telephone number / shipping address match up?

Also you have now the option to pay with paypal, instead of credit card. So somehow it should be possible.

Of course you would just have to pay tax plus VAT in your own country when recieving the package, but it is still ALOT cheaper to buy on the US site.

Any suggestions?

 

They wont ship it to what ever country you're in. Yes they will ship to a US address, and who ever lives there can then sent it to you. (UK I am guessing since you mentioned VAT. )

 

There are other ways to buy a cheap ThinkPad: ProVantage, Euclid Computers and Bottom Line Telecommunications.
If others know any other shops that ship internationally then mention them here.

 

thanks for the replies. The address in US is no problem. I have an address that can forward to me. Have any of you tried it personally?

For example nike.com is impossible to buy from when you are outside US. Even if you have a US address.

They basically demand that you have a working US telephone number, on a shipping address that matches your american creditcard. It seems like the same thing on lenovo.com, but i cant really figure out. I will try when the new T series is available.

 

Hey xyz, I am in Canada and I get all my stuff ship to me from california. My family is all there so I just buy everything using my Visa and get it sent to the california address and they ship it to me. Depends on the mode of transportation, it usually takes about 1-2 weeks since I am about 5000 miles away!

 

thanks chun, no probs with telephone numbers or shipping address that has to match credit card data? They say it has to, but maybe its not a problem?

 

They make sure the telephone and address match the credit card to combat fraud. Whether it'll go through for you is a coin-toss.

 

In that case chun9430's case would not be possible, since he's using a friends address?

 

chun9430 might be using an american credit card while in canada, since he mentioned his family lives there anyway. I wouldn't count on the whatever/credit card addresses being possible xyz, I tried ordering from dell using my credit card, my telephone, and then shipping to my work (different addresses, same country) and they still denied my purchase. For international differences like your case, they will definitely suspect it is credit card fraud.

 

Sounds right.

But they have recently added other payment options like PayPal. Maybe that will do it, since all the credit card information is at PayPal, not lenovo.

I guess i will have to try this out.

Chun9430, did you use an american VISA or a Canadian?

 

I've written a review of my purchase from Euclid Computers. It's in my sig. You can have a look at that if you want.

 

im from philippines, i order my xps1330 from malaysia, method of payment is bank-to-bank deposit from philippines to malaysia using MayBank since it exist in both country, then dell sent the item to my uncle house address in sabah malaysia, then my uncle sent my xps1330 to me here in philippines..

that just my experience..

 

I have bought a T61 from USA. I live in Germany and a friend of mine bought and shipped it to me via USPS. Actually, one should pay german VAT (so called MwSt) and custom fee. However, I have kindly asked the custom officer, that the laptop is for not german citizen (that is me!) and they cleared it with no custom and VAT fee.

 

Yes, I've tried. Make someone in the US buy it and then ship it to you. You'll save A LOT of money.

 

Ok, but then you need an american citizen to buy it for you, which off course would work.

I am talking about using your european credit card (amercan express, visa, or mastercard) to order directly on lenovo.com and have it shipped to an american address and then forwarden to europe. There are post forwarding companies that do the trick. Only question is if the european credit card is going to work.

 

Like other said, buy form someone else. Other shops ship it internationally, with insurance and all the stuff. Much more reliable. I bought my thinkpad from Bottom Line TLC (shopblt.com) and I saved 1000 euros compared to buying a similar (but less powerful) T61p form the italian lenovo site.

 

Good to hear another happy custmer of shopBLT, I've recommened several members to buy from there (mainly for HP8510p/w), no a single problem so far.

 

Dema 80 thanks for the link, I will check out this site when i buy, and the others mentioned too. It does seem to be the most reliable solution.

Now we just need some links for places to buy seperate non-us keyboards : )

Its alot of hazzle i know, but seriously in the country i live in the price is more than 3 times!! the lenovo.com price. And that sucks. because Apple laptops are almost the same price, only the taxation makes the difference. What wrong with lenovo??