Amazon Kindle for SA

Sorted. I spoke to dhl and they checked and agreed with me (luckily they delivered this morning and only realised after they had made a 'mistake').
 
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mister said:
I sympathize with you! It's almost NEVER customs. Customs is SARS and SARS is dead efficient!

DHL are complete morons! They once kept a shipment of mine delayed for ONE ENTIRE MONTH! The customs declaration had to be redone about 6 times! At one stage they were telling me they don't know what to do! I nearly blew my lid.
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I hear you i nearly did myself... every time I phoned it was somehing else, the did 4 assesments then took it out then cleared it and said it should be delivered the next day, only to be told it was stopped again...

What can you do I now have a friends friend at Fed Ex so that helps....
 
oronte said:
Sorted. I spoke to dhl and they checked and agreed with me (luckily they delivered this morning and only realised after they had made a 'mistake'). New problem does it not ship with a pc cable all I have is a us charger and I don't have any microusb devices at home.
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It should plug out from wall charger and then its a standard Micro USB cable... mine was anyway...
 
oronte said:
Sorted. I spoke to dhl and they checked and agreed with me (luckily they delivered this morning and only realised after they had made a 'mistake'). New problem does it not ship with a pc cable all I have is a us charger and I don't have any microusb devices at home.
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That charger works on 220v, and you just need an adapter that costs R20 at Mica.
 
Jola said:
Do Amazon allow you to NOT pay the customs to them ? That would be simpler, then there is nothing to argue about on this side !
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You can but I have never had issues with amazon not paying enough they were spot on... makes it much easier as they attach a pre-release form with the shipment which speeds things up...
 
herbertk said:
You can but I have never had issues with amazon not paying enough they were spot on... makes it much easier as they attach a pre-release form with the shipment which speeds things up...
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Yeah, assuming nobody screws up on this side !
 
FYI - iPhone USB charger adaptor does not work :) it charged mine for 13hrs overnight and it was dead when i turned it on lol.

And I paid R65 for my"usa" adaptor. darn it!
 
rurapente said:
FYI - iPhone USB charger adaptor does not work :) it charged mine for 13hrs overnight and it was dead when i turned it on lol.

And I paid R65 for my"usa" adaptor. darn it!
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There is a minute difference in voltage i think its like 0.5 and a few miliamps difference.

It boggles the mind as the all these devices charge from a PC and that voltage is constant.
 
herbertk said:
There is a minute difference in voltage i think its like 0.5 and a few miliamps difference.

It boggles the mind as the all these devices charge from a PC and that voltage is constant.
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Yip, the actual chargers do differ from device to device. iPhone / BB / Kindle - different voltages and amps.
 
im thinking the amps could have been too high on the iphone's wall charger.

the iphone charger puts out 5V as does a USB port, so something steps it down to 4.9 which would work either way. so i can only imagine amps were wrong, possibly too high since the iphone charger is just that - a charger - to charge a cellphone battery which prob needs higher ma's to charge.

Rapidblue, on next book. tried a free one but its not holding me too well... ill give it some more time.
 
rurapente said:
im thinking the amps could have been too high on the iphone's wall charger.

the iphone charger puts out 5V as does a USB port, so something steps it down to 4.9 which would work either way. so i can only imagine amps were wrong, possibly too high since the iphone charger is just that - a charger - to charge a cellphone battery which prob needs higher ma's to charge.

Rapidblue, on next book. tried a free one but its not holding me too well... ill give it some more time.
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I've also downloaded a few free books but honestly haven't read one of the free ones yet - tend to read all the ones I've paid for first ;)
 
i think im gonna buy clarkson's new one. i loved his previous ones.
 
lol havent touched my free books... finished about 5 books and loving this kindle thing to death lol....
 
why would i want to upgrade the firmware? i mean are there known bugs. im too lazy to go look :)
 
rurapente said:
why would i want to upgrade the firmware? i mean are there known bugs. im too lazy to go look :)
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Yip, only really native PDF support (which I don't really use) and better battery life with wireless on (which I don't really use - keep my wireless off). Still nice to know you're up to date though :cool:
 
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