Hi people, just wondering if any one has bought any in dash DVD players / screens off ebay, the cheaper variety, check this out, just for example http://cgi.ebay.com.au/E229-7-TFT-LCD-In-Dash-TV-Monitor-DVD-VCD-Player_W0QQitemZ5837852620QQcategoryZ14946QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

Is this any good??? I mean there are heaps of these types on the, has anyone out there got anything like this????

Cheers

Be aware that you are buying from hong kong. Sometimes its good stuff, sometimes its factory seconds and sometimes its a fake company. In any case you have to pay by credit card and in that basis alone I dont shop with overseas vendors. :D

also, although it will not always happen, you may get slogged paying duty (or something like that). A mate and i were investigating picking up a lilliput touch screen for a carputer, but we found out about this added cost.

apparently you can be lucky, but if not it is $100 or so.

yeah i bought a touch screen dvd player off ebay about 6 months ago, was supossedly second hand but looked brand new. so far so good no probs, and it also plays burnt dvds where as my mates pioneer won't.

yeah i bought a touch screen dvd player off ebay about 6 months ago, was supossedly second hand but looked brand new. so far so good no probs, and it also plays burnt dvds where as my mates pioneer won't.

was it a known brand??? if you don't mind me asking how much did you pay?

was it from overseas

nah it's a viscomm or something like that. only payed about $600 for it but it's got all the extra inputs which i was after, sound quality could be better but hey you get what you pay for

what features should I look out for?

yeah I got a 7" TFT Screen and player from Hong Kong. Not bad stuff :D

also, although it will not always happen, you may get slogged paying duty (or something like that). A mate and i were investigating picking up a lilliput touch screen for a carputer, but we found out about this added cost.

apparently you can be lucky, but if not it is $100 or so.


Fats,,
if the total value of the item is less than $500 customs 90% of the time wont even look at it..
so if its like 2 or 3 hundred, doubt they would even check!
you can double check this on the customs website,(will post a link if i can find it again)

fair enough. the one we were looking at was about $400. The only reason i mentioned it was because some one on some other forum had been stung paying the extra.

yeh nah its cool.... just thought i would mention it..

I would stay away from that screen. The deck might be good (i had a protec DVD deck that i sold here) and that was pretty good but sound quality isnt the best.

But yeah, i would keep away from that LCD. I bought one that looked the same and you couldnt see the screen from the side and it blew up on me in a week :shock:

EDIT: $71 for postage!

I bought a touch screen from hong kong for my carputer, and haven't had any problems. It took about 4 days to arrive.
Postage was about $40, and I didn't get stung for import tax.

also, if u buy within the next 4 days, use one of the discounts i posted in the Members Lounge, could get ya up to $25 off :D

In regards to additional fees on overseas items, if it is over $500 you may need to pay gst and tax.. but this is only the 10% GST and then about 5-10% tax...

So if its $500, you would pay $50 GST and maximum of $55 tax. Some things are still very cheap even after these charges...

But yeh, being the size it is, and how it will be packaged, you still shouldnt have a problem with it.