Shipping Specs for Freerunner (Was: Group Sales: U.S. Midwest area)

[Paul Buede]

If you are in Frederick, join our Maryland purchase group, I am 30
minutes from you.

Kevin Dean wrote:
> Okay, so I just did some number crunching using the information Steve
> gave and honestly, there's no reason at all the 10-packs need to be
> broken up by region.
>
> It costs $14.40 to ship a 10-pack from Fremont, CA to Frederick, MD
> where I live (which is pretty close to "across the country").
>
> $3,690 + $14.40 = 3704.4 delivered or $370.44 per phone before shipping.
>
> Here's the beautiful thing. Shipping a single unit (from a 10 pack)
> back, from Frederick, MD to Fremont, CA is $9.95 by UPS Ground which
> would bring the total cost per unit to $380.39.
>
> Assuming that Openmoko's Fremont shipping place is NOT getting a
> volume discount then the savings over a single unit would be $28.56 if
> shipped ACROSS COUNTRY both ways.
>
> For fun, I decided what it would cost to ship the unit from home to
> work (as might be done if buying regionally) in Alexandria, VA. The
> diffrerence in shipping is barely noticable, that a shipment of less
> than 60 miles makes it less than $2 cheaper.
>
> The point is, I horribly overestimated UPS shipping costs and there's
> actually quite a bit of savings from going in on a 10-pack. That said,
> I also discovered that doing regional purchases doesn't save much
> money over doing national purchases. Guys in groups falling short
> could easily pick up a small group across the country and cash in on
> the bulk savings. People picking up their phones (perhaps at a LUG
> meet) can even score an extra $8 to $10 savings over having it
> shipped.
>
> Neat. :)
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Kevin Dean <kevin at foreverdean.info> wrote:
>   
>> That's quite useful, thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Tomas Di Domenico <tdidomenico at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > I think this is what  you're looking for:
>>  >
>>  >  http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-April/016379.html
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >  On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Geoff Ruscoe <gcruscoe at sigmavisions.com> wrote:
>>  >  > Its on community for April ... Not sure I remember which thread.
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Kevin Dean <kevin at foreverdean.info> wrote:
>>  >  >
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Steven Kurylo <sk at infinitepigeons.org>
>>  >  > wrote:
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > > >  If you search the archives, Steve already gave us the specs so you
>>  >  > > >  could do this.
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > > Can you drop any more hints on where specifically to find this? I'm
>>  >  > > subscribed to all of the Openmoko lists except kernel-dev and even
>>  >  > > considering that I know it came from Steve, that's a lot of crap to
>>  >  > > wade through.
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > > Thanks!
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > > >
>>  >  > > >  --
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > >
>>  >  > > >  Steven Kurylo
>>  >  > > >
>>  >  > > >
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