On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Thomas Gstädtner wrote:
before some days Hans van der Merwe asked, if it is possible to do
group purchases (in South Africa).
Unfortunately he got no answer, so I'd like to ask again.
We can ship anywhere that UPS can ship now ;-)
I'm from germany and I think there are many people here who like to
buy a GTA01 device.
If everyone orders a single device it are $20 to $40 for the
shipment PLUS 19% VAT on the device INCLUDING the shipment.
Let's assume you order a device for $300, shipment is expensive
with $40 this are $340, plus VAT it are $405.
Now let's assume there are 4 people who want to have a device, the
package is still small enough for $40.
So we pay ((($300*4)+$40)*1.19)/4 what makes $370 (+$5 for
forwarding the packet inland).
So everybody could save at least $30, maybe more if it would be
possible to send bigger packets.
I know shipping is a bit pricey now. But we just don't have our
global distribution setup yet. We're working on this, but it won't be
in place before our mass market launch in Oct. Sorry for any troubles
this might cause. We just don't have the bandwidth to do this now.
It would be nice if someone at FIC (Sean? :) ) could tell us if it
would be possible to take group orders and how many devices could
be shipped at once.
Knowing that would be great, because groups could plan the purchase
before the 9th.
You can order a max of 11 devices at a time. Let us know (by email)
if you need to order more and we can talk about this case-by-case.
-Sean
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