In the case of Braillers Perkins will ship for free world wide. Or at
least that is what is indicated on their website. I am also looking
into something I recently discovered, Clones of Perkins braillers are
also manufactured in India and China as well. I have no idea as to the
quality of such, the quality of the U.S. made braillers are quite good
and have been so for many years. But the price might be better.
As far as the U.S. postal officials know, I asked the other day, there
is no weight limit on free matter material either domestically or
overseas. Perhaps I should start a service of reshipping materials
from the states.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:50 AM, Penny Stevenson wrote:
Dear Greg and all,
Your learn pretty quickly that if you don't have to deal with Vision
Australia for equipment you don't.
Even garden variety equipment that you can pick up at the $2 shop
you pay at
least double for.
You wait till they have a sale and get lucky dip items which can be
great,
or buy online which is now especially good value since our dollar is
at a
good exchange rate. Many blindness companies worldwide will ship with
freepost except braillers are too heavy I think...
We also miss out on a lot of the deals and offers that exist for US
citizens, most notably the trade-in that was had with Freedom
Scientific
where you could trade in your BrailleNote and get a PacMate for a few
thousand dollars... Pretty good deal since most people don't want to
buy
used BrailleNotes here... Especially those with the Classic
motherboard.
Luckily I happened to travel to the States at the time and got the
deal
albeit reluctantly...
That was the biggest drawcard for the Mac, even in Aussie dollars
they work
out at a reasonable price and you don't have to be beholden to anyone.
From Penny
