Shipping to UK/EU

Food you may have some luck with the likes of chinese food markets or similar, we was able to find certain things when in liverpool a few years back
Books, look at the book depository website
Clothes is a hard one, that said indonedia make clothes for high end retsilers and the likes of cheap markets
Mail order at the moment will most likely be disrupted, depending on the vakue you will have import tax /vat etc

Look at malaysian sites also, many of the products are the same or similar

Gwmeath wrote:

Food you may have some luck with the likes of chinese food markets or similar

Agreed.
Most larger cities have a Chinatown or Chinese shopping areas, and they tend to have a lot of products from Malaysia, and some from Indonesia.
The reason for this is many workers in Chinese restaurants/take away shops and students are from Malaysia, so it's worth shops stocking foods to cater to those people.
Have a look at a few and see if they have the products you want.

You could also look on local Indonesian websites like Tokopedia which sell many local products as well as imported products. If you find anything of interest then contact the seller and try to see if they will send their goods overseas. Tokopedia is mainly for the local Indonesian market but perhaps some sellers might be interested to develop overseas business. Also try googling as there are websites that do export Indonesian products overseas.

Edandan wrote:

(books, clothes, food)

Books are heavy so costly to send - but you might be able to send them by surface mail at lower costs.
I've never tried so have no idea.

Clothes are generally lighter but airmail is still going to make things expensive. Back to exploring surface mail.

Food - Forget it. I once tried to send some tea to a mate in England, but UK regulations made it impossible.

abdulkhalil wrote:

You could also look on local Indonesian websites like Tokopedia.

Tokopedia, an excellent company, ship within Indonesia using Go-Jek and so on for many items, but have worldwide shipping for things like watches made in China, thus this idea is pretty much a waste of time. Still, makes a good troll post in the hope of misdirecting someone looking for practical help.

Ive never used tokopedia and other similar sites, do some tend to be more reliable than others, what sites tend to be decent

Tokopedia is a really good site. Of course you need to check the seller's background, see the number of transactions which usually indicates that the seller is reliable. Nationally they ship via Go-jek or JNE depending where the seller is based. Sellers in the same town or city will send by Go-jek and you can often receive your order within an hour of placing it.

Other local websites we sometimes use are BliBli and Carousell. We are pretty active on tokopedia though, and even after we pay, if an item is no longer available, the seller always issues a refund pretty quickly. The variety of products that you can find here is pretty amazing.

Also, on tokopedia you can message the sellers directly with your queries. Sellers may be interested to ship overseas as long as the buyer is willing to pay the price. But it obviously depends on the product and what is agreed between buyer and seller. Some of those sellers are also selling in eBay so they are already selling to overseas.

Thanks for your advice, I will have a look at these.