Help me find some ivl2-7/5  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: m.m.m
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2017, 01:59:34 pm
content: Hi,I'm a hobbyist and an EE student, I just wanted to buy some IVL2-7/5 to make a cool watch for myself, but due to sanctions I cannot use ebay (paypal banned my account just because I'm Iranian and doesn't even allow me withdraw my money, ebay itself has banned it's access from my country IPs), and the only website I found it on was that, does anyone know any other place selling these?Thanks

author: Bakunin
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2017, 12:51:34 am
content: There are some on Amazon US, but that's not helpful to you either I would assume. I wouldn't expect re-shippers to work with Iran. Your best bet is to buy directly from Russia/Belarus/Country formerly known as Ukraine. There are Russian e-commerce stores that specialize in this, some even buy directly from the factory if the part is still in production (some are). Newly produced models typically last longer as well.Unfortunately, those sites are in Russian only and typically deliver to countries that participate in a customs union with Russia. Example:https://www.chipdip.ru/product/ivl2-7-5-indicator(Russian only, customs union delivery only, very reputable, decent prices).http://tec.org.ru/board/ehlekrovakuumnye_pribory/indiuvtornye_pribory/185-1-0-444- these guys specialize in this sort of thing, have excellent prices and appear to be somewhat flexible on payment methods and delivery. According to their payment/delivery page, they do want a reasonably large order if they're going to do any extra work to get the order to you and a couple of IVL2-7/5s at $1 a piece isn't going to be enough. No indication that they speak English either, although they're in St. Petersburg so chances are they have some staff fluent in English. All in all, you're likely going to need someone in Russia, preferably Moscow or St. Petersburg, to help you with this.If you like, send me a PM and I'll give you an e-mail address for an ebay seller I've bought IVLs from in the past, he has the one you want in stock according to his ebay store. Of course, if you buy direct there's no way to guarantee delivery and I'm not sure how you would pay him. The one time I ordered from him he also messed up the address and shipped my order to Canada instead of the US. Canadians, being the pathologically nice people that they are, forwarded it to me for free; you might not be as lucky, however.I'd offer to help, but I'm in the US so shipping scary-looking electronics things to Iran is probably unwise.

author: m.m.m
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2017, 02:00:50 pm
content: Quote from: Bakunin on February 25, 2017, 12:51:34 amThanks for the reply, and also for the links.The shipping address is not going to be to Iran directly, some third party county is in the middle, so Amazon is no problem.Now the only problem is PayPal.But about the second link you mentioned, I checked and it says they don't accept any orders outside Russia.So I'll try find some help in Russia.

author: julianhigginson
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2017, 12:51:32 am
content: aaah, that sucks.. what's Iran done that's so horrible that we can't trade with you? Things like this are so ridiculous, they never stop rulers and the army from getting anything they want. just make the regular people suffer.I just checked on ebay and I can't buy things and have them sent to Iran either. It was only US$15 including shipping anywhere in the world from ukraine for 4, so I would have been happy to help you out. but looks like it's not that easy to organise even from outside Iran.

author: m.m.m
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2017, 05:12:12 pm
content: Quote from: julianhigginson on March 02, 2017, 12:51:32 amYeah, I'm not gonna get into the politics, but most of the people ain't so lucky as me to have a contact in third party countries and so they're screwed up