Hi Luke, I didn't mean to be confrontational, and even included a smiley in an attempt to document that. ;-)
I wasn't arguing at all against your choice of the US as shipping hub; you discussed that before. Instead I was trying to get more attention the point that Wolfgang had raised, and that I havven't seen really addressed yet: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:56:51PM +0200, m016fec3 wrote: >> I have pledged for more than one item and have the question, others have >> them too, if the items will be send bundled and if yes, will the >> shipping costs nevertheless be summed up as if the items would have been >> sent seperately? You somewhat anser this by the following: > from there, the costs of shipping are known to be more expensive > outside of the US, due to surcharges which are *totally outside* of > our control. this isn't something we can ignore. more experienced > people than i have set the shipping costs based on years of direct > experience. i don't know what they are - but crowdsupply (and > thinkpenguin) definitely do. I can perfectly take that for an answer, but I probably am not alone in feeling that this is suboptimal. To exaggerate the situation a bit: > my experience has been limited to using DHL and Fedex for personal > shipping of items: the costs for sending a 40 gram Computer Card were > something mad like $75. Now if you had had them send you two 40 gram Computer Cards in a single package, would you have been happy to pay $150 for that, even though you accepted to pay $75 for the single card? From my experience with DHL etc., I would expect the two cards to cost the same $75, since they fit into the same (rather oversized...) envelope. Perhaps more directly relevant to the project, I was trying to make the following argument: If shipping costs for multiple items can be reduced, then people outside the US will likely order more of the small items together with the cards and micro-desktops. Cheers! Wolfram _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
