I'm a little confused. Are you saying to order 1 phone to the US we will have to pay $70 for shipping? That is so expensive! We need to make sure everyone is aware of this, because we must order the 10 packs. I have posted for the Indiana / Kentucky 10 pack.
So if we were to order a 10 pack it would be $160 shipping right? So $16 / phone. So we would get a $30 or $40 discount on the phone and then a $54 discount on the shipping. Am I putting this together correctly? You were talking about shipping to the U.S. right? I say this because I noticed on one line you said to California and on another line I saw shipping with UPS from the US. Can you clarify so we can make sure we get our 10 people together. Thanks! On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of questions. > > > > Let me see if I can help with some basics. > > > > We ship a 10 Pack to Fremont California. > > > > Dimensions are 435mm x 371mm x 119mm > > I think the weight is on the order of 3kilo. An individual box weighs 237 > gm. > > > > The individual box is dimensioned thusly. 178mm x 104mm x 84mm > > > > just doing a quick check from UPS the shipment from the US for a single > phone would be on the order of 70 USD > > For 10 phones the bulk is on the order of 160USD, which mean 16USD per > customer. > > > > I picked a random EU city to just get a sense of things. > > > > EU hub will happen in due course. When the costs of hubbing in the EU > benefit our end users. > > > > Steve > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Erland Lewin > *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:06 AM > *To:* List for Openmoko community discussion > *Subject:* Shipping questions, customer organized distribution in Europe > > > > In preparation for The Big Day, I have some questions about how the > shipping from OpenMoko will work. > > How much does one package (with a single phone) weigh (approximately)? > What will its dimensions be? > > There's been talk about a hub in Europe, has that idea been scrubbed? IF > not, will it be in place in time for the first shipments? > > When ordering directly from OpenMoko to Europe, how much will shipping > cost for a 10-pack? Would that package come from the US, China or Taiwan > (just curious)? How much would shipping be for 24 10-packs (approximately > 235 phones have been noted for Europe on the Community purchase wiki page)? > > If OpenMoko doesn't set up a hub in Europe, I wonder if it would make > sense for us consumers to do our own hub-like distribution. Using prices > from the Swedish postal service (which is probably not one of the cheapest > in Europe), if a single phone package weighs between 500 g and 1 kg, it > would cost €24 to send as an insured letter to other European countries. Not > all that expensive, I think. > > Distribution would probably be even less expensive if we order one package > to the country in Europe with the lowest postal rates (maybe combined with a > low VAT), then ship phones to one person in each country in the city/region > with most buyers, who then posts them domestically to each buyer in other > parts of his country, and maybe hands them out to buyers in his own city. > > The biggest difficulty would probably be that this would involve a lot of > money (over 50 kEUR), and increase the trust required for all this to work. > How much we would save on the shipping would be a factor involved in whether > this would be worth the trouble. > > Buying directly from OpenMoko would probably not provide us with a > particularly good guarantee, so some European buyers might prefer to buy > from European resellers. > > If we could get the shipping costs (which should be known by now?), we > could do some calculations. > > /Erland > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > -- Geoff Ruscoe Sigma Visions Computer Consulting
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