My Experience with hvStar.com a.k.a MaxSaver BEstEastern hkDirect hvPhoto VIDEO

I ordered a few end-caps and a diffuser May 9, received them today, the 19th. Total shipping was $9.90.
Smooth transaction. I'll buy from them again.
Pete

I have some blowers and lenspens in my card, and my shipping is now showing as $10 more than my order total. I sent them an email, they have something broken. It is not brower-related, I tried by FF and MSIE, same thing, it adds $9.90 per item.

I was always curious if this was a legitimate company selling legitimate products and based on this thread and bocaj's awesome video , I decided to go ahead and order from them.

I went ahead and did the transaction through eBay under their name Besteastern (99.6% positive feedback). I purchased two CP filters

So is anyone else getting $9.90 shipping per item?

CarolinaMoon wrote in post #3238446
I was always curious if this was a legitimate company selling legitimate products and based on this thread and bocaj's awesome video , I decided to go ahead and order from them.

Sweet im glad someone found the video useful, ya im happy with the products.. and will order from them again

Bought my B+W Kaesemann MRC Circular Polarizer there. The packaging is questionable but I guess it's not bad since nothing was damaged. Filter works great. Shipping was $9.95 for me.

Make sure you check all of their different "brand" sites. It was slightly cheaper for me to order from their Vendio site as opposed to ebay or their own site.

TRANSACTION UPDATE:
For those who are interested, I received the following email today from Hvstar.com regarding my filter purchase:

From: "Tina" <tina@hvstar.com>
To: rkenley1@yahoo.com
Subject: Shipping notice from www.MaxSaver.Net (besteastern, hkidrect, hvphoto)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:57:38 +0800

Dear Customer,

Your item has been shipped out today via Hongkong Post Registered Air Mail. Please find the track number below starting from "RA" and ended with "HK". Its status can be viewed on www.hongkongpost.com.h​k, usually you can find the tracking information within 2 working days after you receive this email.

It takes 10-15 working days to deliver in most cases. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions.

We appreciate your business! For more most discounted items please visit www.MaxSaver.Net today!

besteastern, hkdirect, hvphoto
info@hvStar.com
service@hvStar.com
www.MaxSaver.Net
www.hvStar.com

TRANSACTION UPDATE:
5-29-07 - I received my CP filters from HvStar.com today. Everything looked good and I am happy with the transaction through eBay. I would not hesitate to do business with them again. Below are some actual photos of the package and its contents. If you have any questions, let me know.

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SunTsu wrote in post #3247923
So is anyone else getting $9.90 shipping per item?

I received an emailed response to my question to them about the $9 per item shipping. They stated that that indeed is the case where appropiate, because this is where they make up their costs. Basically, their price plus the individual shipping total is still cheaper than where you can get the items anywhere else.

Of course this makes no sense for items like the Lenspen and the giottos blowers, because adding the $8.90 per additional item puts these well over what I can get them elsewhere. Based on this, the only deals at this site are the filters and not much else.

I used the ebay outfit of these guys for a rocket blower - arrived within a week would reccomend

This site has persuaded me to give them a go so hopefully I will have a nicve package later this week. With the shipping I guess it was charged per total cost or weight as I ordered two filters and a bunch of stepping rings and lens caps but was charged $36.60 for 8 items in total. Overall price though was still excellent.

Michael.

I bought a b+w kaseman mrc 77 uv. Works great and makes same shots as my smaller filter. But still questionable because i wonder, in a (offical) b+w package i have (smaller filter) the foam with a hole in it to fit the filter. Why is this not on the 77mm. Can someone check this in his package that did not bought it from them.?

I live in netherlands shipping took 4 days! Great service.

p.s. do not buy the onmibounce it sucks! I just bought a real one and it really makes a diffence.