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Nice find! Been wanting one of these - can we order and have these shipped to ZA from roku directly? Any estimate on how much shipping costs would be?
 
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You might be able to use Postbox Courier - you get the Roku shipped to their US address and they will forward it on to you in SA.
Amazon has the Roku HD currently on special ...
http://www.amazon.com/Roku-2500R-HD-Streaming-Player/dp/B007KEZMX4
This is the old LT which uses an ARM processor and might be a better buy ...
http://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streamin...6?ie=UTF8&qid=1385700402&sr=8-6&keywords=roku

Did you see the Tronsmart Prometheus $49 special on Geekbuying (in the second liliputing link) which I think includes free delivery to SA? This has a dual core Amlogic AML 8726-M6 processor which is far more powerful than most, if not all of the Roku processors. You should be able to run XBMC on that machine. Look for some online reviews if you are interested to evaluate the performance.
http://www.amazon.com/Tronsmart-Pro...iewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
 
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TA is going to do something every 2 hours according to their site.
 
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Incredible Connection and Dion Wired are having Black Friday Sales. Esquire is having a "Rainbow Weekend" special
 
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A bit OT but this seems to be a good thread to ask.

Anyone purchased from Geekbuying (in this BF weekend) and have you received your item yet? I know it is busy time of year and my purchase was from some other chinese vendor, but it will give me an idea if the postal services are on the ball. Feedback by US buyers for this vendor ( banggood) gave about a 3 week time.
 
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Vis1/0N said:
A bit OT but this seems to be a good thread to ask.

Anyone purchased from Geekbuying (in this BF weekend) and have you received your item yet? I know it is busy time of year and my purchase was from some other chinese vendor, but it will give me an idea if the postal services are on the ball. Feedback by US buyers for this vendor ( banggood) gave about a 3 week time.
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USPS Priority Mail International shipments from USA to SA are on the ball, less than 2 weeks. The delays are in SA:

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In transit	2013/12/13 11:37	CAPEMAIL (HUB)
From Customs	2013/12/12 08:23	CAPEMAIL (HUB)
In transit	2013/12/08 08:30	JHB INT MAIL CENTRE (HUB)
From Customs	2013/12/06 07:10	JHB INT MAIL CENTRE (HUB)
To Customs	2013/12/05 06:28	JHB INT MAIL CENTRE (HUB)
Incomming International	2013/12/05 06:27	JHB INT MAIL CENTRE (HUB)
 
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My package has made it's way into SA (based on Deutsch Post tracking) and hopefully it will make it's way past the overworked customs quietly. Hopefully they and the Post office workers already did their holiday shopping and will just deliver that darn thing instead. I guess it won't make its way to me until next year.

My patience will now be tested.
 
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Vis1/0N said:
My package has made it's way into SA (based on Deutsch Post tracking) and hopefully it will make it's way past the overworked customs quietly. Hopefully they and the Post office workers already did their holiday shopping and will just deliver that darn thing instead. I guess it won't make its way to me until next year.

My patience will now be tested.
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DHL? If so it won't rely on postal workers but on DHL.
If it's SAPO, u can track it here with your foreign number:
http://sms.postoffice.co.za/TrackingParcels/

If it's DHL contact them ahead of time and ask them what amount u have to pay for customs duties. They'll want an EFT with proof of payment unless the duty has been prepaid or the item is VAT free.
 
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I did not know that international packages could be tracked. Now it is very irritating to wait for it. From Jhb it moved to Durmail on 24th. Tracked 7am & 12 pm on the 24th. Then 1pm on the 27th. Now 2am on the 28th. Still at Durmail :confused: No mention of customs. Maybe it is on the delivery vehicle to my local PO this morning. Maybe not.

I now have to wait for Monday unless I can somehow intercept it at Durmail where it has been tracked at 4 points already.
 
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Vis1/0N said:
I did not know that international packages could be tracked. Now it is very irritating to wait for it. From Jhb it moved to Durmail on 24th. Tracked 7am & 12 pm on the 24th. Then 1pm on the 27th. Now 2am on the 28th. Still at Durmail :confused: No mention of customs. Maybe it is on the delivery vehicle to my local PO this morning. Maybe not.

I now have to wait for Monday unless I can somehow intercept it at Durmail where it has been tracked at 4 points already.
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Last time, the same thing happened with a package from the US that I ordered. I eventually phoned them and they said it had been detained by customs because they needed an invoice. So just check that because they didn't let me know anything.
 
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I have derailed this thread good and proper. Just to note that the tracking is not live. I phoned customer services who told me that the parcel was not stuck in customs and should be at my post office on Monday. I checked the page late yesterday and it was unchanged. Now I checked it and see that it was tracked at my PO yesterday 10am with the notification slip processed.

So the tracking is not live.
 
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Vis1/0N said:
I have derailed this thread good and proper. Just to note that the tracking is not live. I phoned customer services who told me that the parcel was not stuck in customs and should be at my post office on Monday. I checked the page late yesterday and it was unchanged. Now I checked it and see that it was tracked at my PO yesterday 10am with the notification slip processed.

So the tracking is not live.
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Tracking is pretty close to live if not live most of the time. I speak for JIMC to Cape Town. Of course sometimes they don't update final stages.
 
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