{"id":5143,"date":"2013-01-31T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2013-01-31T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:37:12","slug":"ebaying-from-china-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5143","title":{"rendered":"eBay&#039;ing from China: Does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/china-ship.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/china-ship.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"china-ship\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like to play with electronics, so I order a lot of electronic parts. For a long time, new items have been for sale on eBay for amazing prices, but the seller is in China. I avoided those deals, afraid that neither the seller nor the shipping could be trusted. But when I needed a hard-to-find circuit board and saw what I needed in China for $2.43 plus $1.00 shipping, I figured it was worth a try.<\/p>\n<p>They shipped the board immediately, and it arrived in the mail 13 days later, nicely packaged, and in perfect working order.<\/p>\n<p>As always on eBay, sellers vary, so check their feedback. But if you&#8217;re looking for things like smartphone accessories, you might find some good bargains from Chinese sellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to play with electronics, so I order a lot of electronic parts. For a long time, new items have been for sale on eBay for amazing prices, but the seller is in China. I avoided those deals, afraid that neither the seller nor the shipping could be trusted. But when I needed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;eBay&#039;ing from China: Does it work?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}