Using Hop Shop Go as your Parcel Forwarding Service

If you've seen any of my Sephora hauls in the past, you'll know that I use Hop Shop Go as my parcel forwarding service. I've had a lot of people ask me about their service and whether I recommend them so I'm finally getting my butt into gear and blogging about them.

Before I begin, let me say one thing; I don't have a bad word to say about Hop Shop Go. I think they're absolutely incredible. I've used another parcel forwarding service previous (PriceUSA) but I only used them once as I wasn't anywhere near as impressed with the service and professionalism.

When using Hop Shop Go, I place the orders myself. I know some people in Australia have issues using their credit cards online with Sephora but, for some reason, mine always works and I'm definitely not complaining. If, for some reason, your card doesn't work there's the option to have them place your order for you. This service is called BuyForMe and, of course, there's a fee that goes with it. The fee is 10% of the purchase price, inclusive of shipping. For primer customers the fee is 7%.

When placing orders with US sites (let's face it, it's always Sephora or MAC), I have it shipped to the US postal address that I got when I signed up with. Once the parcel has reached the address my account is updated. I can see what has arrived and they even upload the invoice to be sure you know what's what! When it arrives I can choose to have it posted or wait until other parcels arrive. If I wait for other parcels to arrive I can have them consolidated. This means that the parcels are shipped at the same time so they're viewed as one shipment, not two or three. Remember, they will hold your parcels in their warehouse for 30 days free of charge. There is a cost after that but I wouldn't know what is it. It'd kill me knowing my stuff was with someone else for that long!

Once everything has arrived, I can ship it! This is the most exciting bit. Shipping is easy. You just choose what you want to ship, which shipping option (normally there's one or two), pay using PayPal and Bob's your Uncle! Depending on the costs, there's a few different postal services HopShopGo will use and my favourite is definitely DHL. It's incredibly fast, the tracking is soo detailed and I've never had a thing damaged!!

For every Sephora order I've placed I've paid between $40.00 and $50.00US dollars for shipping and I think that's pretty affordable. I don't hold back when I place and order because I want to make the shipping worth it so I feel like it's always a completely justifiable amount and it's always less than I expect!

My parcels usually take 7 days including weekends to get to me in Western Australia after leaving the Hop Shop Go warehouse. That's quicker than a lot of things getting across Australia!

HopShopGo has an iPhone app (not sure if it's available for Android devices), which I absolutely love. Not only can you ship and consolidate packages on it, but you can access your tracking # at any point so, of course, track your parcels. Fantastic for everyone who's super impatient.

HopShopGo is a great parcel forwarding service and I highly recommend them. I think they're absolutely fantastic. Their website is so straight forward, the services are fantastic and the shipping prices are so affordable.

Do you use HopShopGo? Can you recommend any other forwarding services?