Thread: RCBS Chargemaster lite

Looks like an alright price. $460 NZD delivered from Amazon. 240v NZ/AU plug.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...=1629772645253

The reviews dont look good. Parallel selling? Got stung on TM by not looking at the reviews of the seller. This equipment sometimes is best to get it thru a reputable dealer. Suck up the cost. Got the 1500.

I thought Amazon was fairly trustworthy. The chargemaster lite is rated 4.7 out of 5 and sold/shipped by amazon themselves rather than a third party. Am I missing something here? Maybe it is too good to be true.

Originally Posted by Hahn

I thought Amazon was fairly trustworthy. The chargemaster lite is rated 4.7 out of 5 and sold/shipped by amazon themselves rather than a third party. Am I missing something here? Maybe it is too good to be true.

I would go with the normal chargemaster. Mine is awesome. Importing from USA was much cheaper. I think I got mine from brownells when they had 25 percent off

Originally Posted by Hahn

I thought Amazon was fairly trustworthy. The chargemaster lite is rated 4.7 out of 5 and sold/shipped by amazon themselves rather than a third party. Am I missing something here? Maybe it is too good to be true.

I bought an item off of Amazon at a cost well over $100NZD plus shipping. Was faulty on arrival, actually, not as represented. My money was refunded quick sharp and a courier label provided to print out and return it at their cost. Hard to argue with. Not so sure how you would go on equipment failure down the track that ordinarily would be a warranty claim.

Originally Posted by Jhon

I bought an item off of Amazon at a cost well over $100NZD plus shipping. Was faulty on arrival, actually, not as represented. My money was refunded quick sharp and a courier label provided to print out and return it at their cost. Hard to argue with. Not so sure how you would go on equipment failure down the track that ordinarily would be a warranty claim.

With Amazon moving into this part of the world and being an authorised retailer shipping directly to NZ maybe they would honour the warranty themselves... Might be worth an email.

I run the charge master lite and its great.

Originally Posted by stagstalker

I run the charge master lite and its great.

@stagstalker - did that red Hornady one you used in some of your videos die?

Originally Posted by 308mate

@stagstalker - did that red Hornady one you used in some of your videos die?

@308mate that is my mates one that I learnt on and used before getting my own setup

Bought mine from a local gun shop. It seemed very expensive, but I'm a pensioner, so everything seems expensive. But I'm very happy with how it woks, and its accuracy. My advice? Buy it, especially at that price..
Ken

Had no issue with my charge master lite, been really happy with it.

Perhaps email and enquire about the warranty process with its destination being NZ. It may be likely that the local distributor won't want to know about it. So long as there's a process to send it back if required.


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I have bought virtually all my reloading gear ex USA and that included big ticket items like my Chargemaster and Benchsource annealer.

Nowadays if buying say a Chargemaster I would look at local prices and seriously consider those.
Ex USA now everthing is much dearer to ship. Returning for warranty is also much dearer to ship and a hassle in some cases.
And depending upon where you purchase they may collect gst on behalf of our govt.

There will still be a saving but you need would weight up how worthwhile that saving is.

My Chargemaster scale shit itself. Brownells were sympathetic but it was just outside the warranty (relatively short) period so no assistance there.
In NZ you may also be able to pressure a local supplier under the consumers guarantee act.

I am now very careful about purchasing anything containing electronics from overseas. Dies etc no issue.
My last purchase was a US$15 watch. No great damage if it dies.

I sure there are many who will now post about their great deals. All I'm saying is it's not as good as it used to be and you need to balance the saving against dealing with the issue of the item going belly up and no local support. And a for example Chargemaster if purchased overseas will have no local support.

Originally Posted by zimmer

I have bought virtually all my reloading gear ex USA and that included big ticket items like my Chargemaster and Benchsource annealer.

Nowadays if buying say a Chargemaster I would look at local prices and seriously consider those.
Ex USA now everthing is much dearer to ship. Returning for warranty is also much dearer to ship and a hassle in some cases.
And depending upon where you purchase they may collect gst on behalf of our govt.

There will still be a saving but you need would weight up how worthwhile that saving is.

My Chargemaster scale shit itself. Brownells were sympathetic but it was just outside the warranty (relatively short) period so no assistance there.
In NZ you may also be able to pressure a local supplier under the consumers guarantee act.

I am now very careful about purchasing anything containing electronics from overseas. Dies etc no issue.
My last purchase was a US$15 watch. No great damage if it dies.

I sure there are many who will now post about their great deals. All I'm saying is it's not as good as it used to be and you need to balance the saving against dealing with the issue of the item going belly up and no local support. And a for example Chargemaster if purchased overseas will have no local support.

It does pay to support local suppliers specially on big ticket items that you only buy once, If people stop buying
the suppliers will not bother to stock anything, At the present time even the American suppliers are stuffed and the freight
times are crazy one parcel I got in 6 days the next one from the same supplier sat in Florida for a month, Also some of the
sellers charge ridiculously high freight rates, Amazon and Ebay collect GST on everything so the savings may not be that good
and the manufacturer may not honour the warranty .

This is a no-brainer.
$NZ 450 landed including GST collected by Amazon vs $650 local (and nobody has any stock so that's that)
I've always found Amazon very reliable and this is the official RCBS store

Given the usual RRP in the US is $299 plus tax (which is $505 including GST) why is the NZ price 30% more?
The retail margin is already included in the above $299 which provides for cost to serve
What kind of margin is the local distributor Sportways taking?

NZ Post no longer offers shipping for anything even slightly firearms related so having Amazon ship direct is a score