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

Robert Horton openmoko at roberthorton.net
Sat May 3 06:32:24 CEST 2008


What about the optional debug board? How does that affect these 10 packs and
its savings? If you plan on getting a board and the phone does it still make
sense to save on shipping for the phone but pay it for the board? 

 

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[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Ruscoe
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:50 AM
To: paul at buede.com; List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: Shipping Specs for Freerunner (Was: Group Sales: U.S.
Midwestarea)

 

Thank you Kevin!

That is really good news...

So by setting up a Midwest group we're really just making freerunner friends
near by!

Well that sounds great.  So I guess the best reason for a local 10 pack is
being able to all meet and open up the box and not wait for it to be shipped
again.

Well I'm stoked!




On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Paul Buede <paul at buede.com> wrote:

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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>>  >  > > >
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