Online shopping in Brazil

When we buy online it's from the Chain stores websites. We check store first before we buy. We have been successful except for one time. The product never came. we did get our money back.

Most of what we buy is some electronics and kitchen appliances.

We have never bought abroad. My son did send me a gift coming from Amazon. There was no duty to pay.

Jim

Earlier this year, I ordered a couple of OTC medicines from Amazon. They took about 3 months to arrive because they got hung up in Customs, although I don't know why. The good news was that Amazon gave me a 100% refund, due to the inconvenience.

How have you found the experience of online shopping in Brazil? Are there any useful sites or apps that you would recommend?

On-line shopping in Brazil is easy and efficient. I use the site buscape.com.br. which compares the prices of the goods you´re buying with various stores. Mercado Livre is also a very useful site to see hard to find items. In my experience, Brazil sites don´t accept foreign credit cards, so I use a boleto bancario which you can pay at Lotericas (lottery joints). Even if I have a Brazilian credit card, I wouldn´t use it due to fraud and cloning in Brazil.

http://www.buscape.com.br/f/?obn=1& … AmbF8P8HAQhttps://www.mercadolivre.com.br

What kinds of products do you find it best to buy online?

The best products would be appliances and electronics. It´s delivered to your door and they´re a lot cheaper than in physical stores. Medications and supplements would be next and cheaper on-line than in pharmacies. You can even find supplements and medications that has been recalled or prohibited by ANVISA (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária) but legal in the US.

What do you think of the delivery process?

The delivery process is efficient and they give you a tracking number to trace your
merchandise. You can also log in their site and see the progress of the delivery. Depending on the amount, sometimes shipping is free. They base the cost of shipping on your CEP (Zip Code). I
have not lost any delivery so far.

robal

williamdeep,

Your medications were probably delayed by ANVISA (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária). Any doubts about a medication or non-conformance with their standards
would delay proceedings due to further verifications.

They prohibited DHEA which is legal in the states. I buy them from Swanson Vitamins
when I go home. I bought many supplements (vitamins and minerals) from Swanson and had it sent to Brazil. No problems... The taxes are very high (federal and state)
and you have to pay storage fees if you send them by FEDEX.

robal

On-line shopping in Brazil is easy and efficient.I am using
https://www.mercadolivre.com.br
some online item are very cheap we find electrinic..

On-line shopping in Brazil is just as easier as everywhere. The most popular buying online site is https://www.mercadolivre.com.br if you are looking to research for the best deals. But, have said that, depends on what you are looking for...for example...for electronics, you can have a go with https://www.americanas.com.br/,http://www.magazineluiza.com.br, www.casasbahia.com.br, www.extra.com.br, http://www.decathlon.com.br/
One of the payment options is something called ŽboletoŽ. You can print it out and pay at the cashpoint of your Brazilian bank. I pay some goods with my English banking card and did not have any trouble but I try to avoid it and use boletos instead of. Speaking about the delivery of your goods....well, it depends on where you are living in Brasil and who is working in your post office and what you are buying and if the product you bought is local or from abroad....some occasions I had to track down where my parcels were and had to give a lot of phone calls to the company or email to the site where I bought the product.  Situation a bit stressed I would mention but at the end of the day, the product I bought finally arrives at my door step.

I have tried shopping online several times, but there are no online merchants that accept credit cards that weren't issued in Brazil. This sucks hard and deep and not in a good way. Thankfully my step-daughter's friend has a credit card that she lets all of her friends use.  I bought a notebook through Magazine Luiza. If I'd been able to afford the full purchase price at the time of purchase, I'd have bought it outright and not allowed myself to be raped by the Brazilian "installment plan" which is more expensive than the interest we'd be charged in the US.

From the sound of it, delivery times depend on the retailer. My computer was supposed to arrive in 3-4 days but took more than 7 days (uteis) to arrive. 

It was also a hassle because the vendor called her because she'd never shopped there before. This took a week from the day she clicked "Enter" to finalize the purchase. Then the credit card company called because she's never shopped at that store. Another 4 days gone. Then the credit card company called again because she's never bought anything that expensive before. Another week down the drain. And then the store called again because the card's billing address is in Recife but the shipping address was in São Paulo. Another week. And then the credit card company called again, again because the shipping address was São Paulo (They've never heard of people buying gifts for others?) Another week down the drain. Finally, almost 2 months after she clicked to buy the damn thing, it was on its way. And then took a week to arrive although we paid for the 3-4 day shipping.

If you're ordering things internationally, you need to ensure that their value does not exceed $50 by much. I bought a refurbished Samsung tablet from the US Walmart website for $249US 5 years ago. My mom picked it up and mailed it to me. They wanted R$1780 (thereabouts) to release it from customs to me. At the time, the exchange rate was R$2.78 per USD. I could have bought a brand new Samsung tablet there in Brazil for less with quite a bit left over.

My mom wants to give my wife a sewing machine when I go back at the end of November and I want to bring a cordless drill and either a small circular saw or sawzall (I haven't decided which yet.). I'm hoping I don't get raked over the coals by customs for them.