Shipping costs

[Ben]

To Australia was more than twice what Sean initially suggested.
Luckily the USD is doing poorly against the AUD lately, so that eased
the burden.

On 7/10/07, Shawn Rutledge <shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe they are using a commercial service.

That sounds likely, especially given the effort they have to put into
the project. I'd say most of the added cost is in packing, addressing,
etc. and they may have planned on doing that in house earlier. I hope
that there is reasonable insurance cover included.

>  Via EMS (postal "rush" air
> mail, takes about a week from the US to Belarus) it would be much
> less.

I had an MP3 player (probably about half the size of the OpenMoko's
box (at a guess) sent from US to Australia via FEDEX. It took 36 hours
from payment to arrival at the local (inland) courier base station
where my friend worked and he called me when it got there. It was
US$25 or so for shipping from memory.

> On 7/9/07, Gena Batsyan <gbatyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm shocked!
> >
> > I wanted to purchase neo to Belarus - 140 bucks for shipping, that's a
> > half of the device price!!!
> > Western Europe is about 90.
> >
> > What's going on, WHY ???
> >
> > Are there any plans to reduce shipping costs for the 1st generation of
> > neo in the next future?
> > I'd appreciate any quotes on that.
> >
> > Regards!
> >
> >
> >
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