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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john mathers on March 21, 2016, 01:19:18 pm

Title: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: john mathers on March 21, 2016, 01:19:18 pm
Saw this on ebay,

upholstery tool
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Upholstery-Carpet-Cleaning-Detail-Wand-Auto-Detailing-Hand-Tool-Detailer-EDIC-/321704702154?hash=item4ae71830ca:g:efkAAOSw9r1WDZ8t

really cheap at £35, and was thinking of getting a couple of others as well to make shipping worthwhile.

anyone any experience of them?
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: Dave_Lee on March 21, 2016, 04:01:43 pm
You will also have vat and import duty to pay, on top of shipping costs.
Dave.
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: JandS on March 21, 2016, 05:14:33 pm
Postage @ $30.
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: john mathers on March 21, 2016, 05:39:39 pm
 found another couple who have much cheaper postage, about £30 for 3 wands + I calculated it at around £25 duty & vat on an online calculator.

It was more of a question of quality, any good you reckon?
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: Mike Halliday on March 22, 2016, 06:34:42 am
The only moving part  that might have reliability issues is the trigger assembly  , so worse case scenario is that will need changing pretty quickly, but overall it looks good buy.

I'm surprised it says Made  in the USA usually they are Chinese imports.

I would'nt hesitate buying one
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: john martin on March 22, 2016, 05:57:00 pm
dont think youl save anything buying one tool from america , guy like the carpetcleaning store should have a ship in soon and prices will work out the the same or less .

You can save if u buy a few items together and combined shipping .   I probably mentioned this guy before but this is one of the sources of these ebay tools  , hes Vietnamese/American  .   He has the metal made in Vietnam  and he puts the usual brass fitting and hoses on them in american ...hence 'made ' in America
http://caltoolusa.com/home.html

You can email him direct and hel send an order ,  i got two wands , the CFR clone handtool , three regular handtools and a bunch of spare brassware and jets from his couple of years ago  ... i think shipping was about 100usd ,( asked for normal usps) then u pay tax etc on the cost of the items +the shipping costs.  ( but then he did devalue the invoice to save me some tax    :D)
Then u save money .
Think he a swivel wand now also , not on the site , and i believe he was doing a zipper clone
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: dave the hose on March 23, 2016, 03:29:06 pm
just be very careful of caltools usa
i used do deal with him upto about a year ago when he tried knocking me for $1400
i now import all my own tools(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1458746912_10-0521 & 10-0945 Pic 1.jpg)
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: CleanerCarpets on March 23, 2016, 06:26:16 pm
John - how do you get on with the CFR clone? Looks like the trigger is cable tied on
Title: Re: anyone bought generic wands from USA
Post by: john martin on March 23, 2016, 09:59:48 pm
Quote from: CleanerCarpets on March 23, 2016, 06:26:16 pm
John - how do you get on with the CFR clone? Looks like the trigger is cable tied on

Ha , id say that was just put together quickly for the website picture .   The brass is standard hanger valve , its all the usual brands like D.A.M  .
This is the same tool as resold by cobbs site
http://www.cobbcarpet.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=76&products_id=5166

How do i like it ?  its the one for me ... the cfr design that is  , i use it every day .   All tools have pros and cons but this the best allrounder for me .