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DigitalRev has an online shop!

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Gotta love the reviews from DigitalRev ! Better yet, they have a shopping site! Prices seem pretty really reasonable!

HopShopGo Review

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I was interested in a few books from Amazon and found that if I bought them in used condition I would save even more. One particular book I was interested in was a Psychology book that was priced at $0.75 for a previous edition vs a new edition ($125). As I understand correctly, Amazon is able to ship to Malaysia direct. The problem is that most (if not all) used books do not ship to Malaysia. This is where the dilemma comes in. Should I buy a new book for 125x the used price and get amazon to ship to me directly? or should I use a forwarder? DECIDING ON A FORWARDER Which forwarder to choose? I took a look at the following forwarders: Borderlinx HopShopGo VPost I have used Vpost before while I was staying in Singapore. I believe it was the cheapest at that time. I haven't used Borderlinx but I had to deal with their customer service before when I had problems with my account and it was horrible. Pricing wise they are also the most expensive. Now, HopShopGo was a new