Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-23 Thread Jonathan Spooner
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Moss-Pultz Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:09 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? ramsesoriginal wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-23 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
of the Freerunner published? ramsesoriginal wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Beier ha scritto: Am Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:10 +0100 schrieb Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What we Europeans would need is a FIC

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-23 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Spooner wrote: I would of thought in the EU you'd need a supplier who is big enough to bring over GTA02s by the container-load, not in 10s. Its the only way to keep the price down everywhere else. We

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-22 Thread Jonathan Spooner
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Andy Powell wrote: TRIsoft 399$ would make 257 EUR TRIsoft Shipping from China / Taiwan / US appr. $70 to Europe TRIsoft is $469, makes 302 EUR TRIsoft plus 19% VAT is 360 EUR for a self import at the actual price. Well, I don't think that a seller buys the

RE: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-22 Thread steve
. And there will be a discount. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Moss-Pultz Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:09 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? ramsesoriginal

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Lowell Higley
Having lived in the US and Europe... 1) We usually do pay shipping from China. It's usually built into the cost of the product so it's hard to say exactly what it is. I would guess less than $10 a unit. 2) We do not have VAT in the US. Closest thing we have to it is sales tax. Most states have

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread ramsesoriginal
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Beier ha scritto: Am Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:10 +0100 schrieb Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What we Europeans would need is a FIC subsidiary somewhere here, As I read FIC has some

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Andy Powell
On Thursday 20 March 2008 16:05, Stroller wrote: snip But we must remember that an importer has to tie his own money up in stock (money that could otherwise be earning interest for him) and gamble with the currency exchange rates. If he buys when the dollar is at 1:X and the exchange rate

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
ramsesoriginal wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Beier ha scritto: Am Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:10 +0100 schrieb Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What we Europeans would need is a FIC subsidiary somewhere here, As I

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
ramsesoriginal ha scritto: The same also holds true if (and here comes the crazy part: correct me if it's illegal) someone want's to buy a bunch of Freerunners (let's say 10), customize them (with custom themes, programs, settings, maybe even pre-filled data, some additional hardware, case mods,

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Peter Trapp
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Quoting Peter Trapp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, I've paid 300€ (=300$) for Neo1973 even without any reseller and group purchasing with two other guys to save shipping costs (to Germany)!! So, where is the big problem? You can go to

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 21 March 2008 11:01:37 Andy Powell wrote: Actually the best way to handle that is to buy currency at a fixed, guaranteed price. ukforex (no affiliaton) do this sort of thing. I don;t understand why more people don't do it. If you're importing stuff on a regular basis it just makes

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Mar 2008, at 10:01, Andy Powell wrote: On Thursday 20 March 2008 16:05, Stroller wrote: snip But we must remember that an importer has to tie his own money up in stock (money that could otherwise be earning interest for him) and gamble with the currency exchange rates. If he buys when

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Lally Singh
Definite cultural problem within the open source/free software community. People use it for both definitions of 'free', and complain heavily over everything that isn't free (in $$). Small companies need to account for the risks they're taking for the community in their margins, otherwise they

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-20 Thread Christian Beier
Am Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:10 +0100 schrieb Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What we Europeans would need is a FIC subsidiary somewhere here, As I read FIC has some branch in Czech or Slovakia. Thing is: If you ship a container €70 is definitely not the price per device. You can help: motivate

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-20 Thread Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
Christian Beier ha scritto: Am Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:48:10 +0100 schrieb Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What we Europeans would need is a FIC subsidiary somewhere here, As I read FIC has some branch in Czech or Slovakia. Thing is: If you ship a container €70 is definitely not the

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Mar 2008, at 13:24, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: On 3/19/08, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... you have to pay the 19% even if you import by yourself (the 19% are also on the shipping fees). That is not correct (at least here in Norway we do NOT pay VAT for the shipping

Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Steven **
Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to-brazil/ : The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has been published, it's going to be less than 400 USD — which is quite a substantial improvement over the estimated 650

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Lally Singh
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to-brazil/ : The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has been published, it's going to be

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Sander van Grieken
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to-brazil/ : The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has been published, it's going to be

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Steven ** wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to-b razil/ The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has been published, it's going to be less than 400 USD — which is quite

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Andy Powell
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 16:10, Steven ** wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to-b razil/ The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has been published, it's going to be less than 400 USD — which is

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? Date: mer 19 mar 08 05:51:01 +0100 Quoting Sander van Grieken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If I recall correctly, the initial Freerunner pricing was $450 for the device and $600 for the devkit. What I really hope is that the price in US

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Shannon
Oh wow, I've been paying a little bit of attention to those exchange rates, but I hadn't realized it's gotten that bad. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? Date: mer 19 mar 08 05:51:01 +0100

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread thomasg
: Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? Date: mer 19 mar 08 05:51:01 +0100 Quoting Sander van Grieken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If I recall correctly, the initial Freerunner pricing was $450 for the device and $600 for the devkit. What I really hope is that the price

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Trapp
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Lally Singh wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to -brazil/ The price range for the Neo

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Vincent
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:40 PM, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since nobody seems to realize it, I guess I have to explain this. 1. Even the distributor has to pay shipping 2. 19% VAT in germany 3. x% additional fees (recycling, ...) in germany/europe 4. 2 years warranty in germany 5.

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Trapp
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Andy Powell wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 16:10, Steven ** wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to -b razil/ The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has been

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Andy Powell
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 17:56, Andy Powell wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 16:10, Steven ** wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to -b razil/ The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Andy Powell
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 17:56, Andy Powell wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 16:10, Steven ** wrote: Was reading Planet OpenMoko and found the following at http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/03/18/from-switzerland-to -b razil/ The price range for the Neo FreeRunner has

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread ian douglas
Vincent wrote: 2. 19% VAT in germany 3. x% additional fees (recycling, ...) in germany/europe Regarding points 1, 2, 3 and 6 - doesn't the US have something similar? 2. I'm originally from Canada, but my experience in the US is that each state, and sometimes within separate counties

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Christian Weßel
Hi folks, several days ago I got from www.pulster.de the price 399€ for the stock unit, incl. shipment, taxes etc. Am Mittwoch, den 19.03.2008, 19:58 +0100 schrieb Peter Trapp: ... 400USD != 400EUR ... -- mfg/br, christian Flurstraße 14 29640 Schneverdingen E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Powell wrote: 400USD != 400EUR If this is an indication of the pricing for Europe, please arrange for some European versions to get shipped to the USA where we can buy them and have them shipped to Europe. I do agree with you...! -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Powell wrote: TRIsoft 399$ would make 257 EUR TRIsoft Shipping from China / Taiwan / US appr. $70 to Europe TRIsoft is $469, makes 302 EUR TRIsoft plus 19% VAT is 360 EUR for a self import at the actual price. Well, I don't think that a seller buys the shipping of each phone $70... Maybe

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner published? Date: Wed 19 Mar 08 07:58:50PM +0100 Quoting Peter Trapp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, I've paid 300€ (=300$) for Neo1973 even without any reseller and group purchasing with two other guys to save shipping costs (to Germany

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Kevin Dean
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both US and EU must offer some sort of warranty. I don't believe this is true. IIRC the EU requires sellers or manufacturers to warranty items (or perhaps specific items) but there's no such requirement in the USA (though