Europe Distribution

[Xavier Vens]

On pulster the price is in the description, the price in the list is
0.00 Euro, should not means that they will sell it at 299 Euro.
I don't trust this actually.


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Sebastian Billaudelle <sebbil at gmx.de> wrote:
> pulster.eu seems to be the first OFFICIAL distributor in europe!
> Freerunner -> 299€
>
> cheers
> Sebastian
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2008, 16:53 +0200 schrieb Steven Le Roux:
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Joachim Steiger <roh at openmoko.org> wrote:
>
> Steven Le Roux wrote:
>> What about Europe distribution ;). Let's come back to the subject :)
>
>
> well.. i think that was already answered somewhere in the thread in
> other words, but here my short version:
>
> afaik there will be 2 possibilities:
>
> - order at the openmoko us based webshop.
>  - pay in us$
>  - pay the (to europe quite high but not unusual) higher shipping fee
>  - if not in the us: pay the VAT/sales tax of the target country on
> recieving the package to the ups guy (usually in cash)
>  - use a CC (currently JCB, VISA, MASTER. _no_ AMEX afaik)
>
> - order at a local distributor
>  - pay the local currency
>  - pay for shipping if you do not pick it up yourself
>  - pay the regional tax/vat of your county directly with the device and
> shipping
>
> so the bottomline is: us customers as well as worldwide can very easily
> order directly at openmoko. but if you do not want to have the hassle of
>  transatlantic shipping, different currencies etc or want local
> warranty, buy at a local distributor.
>
> i guess due to the shipping costs its cheaper and less hassle to order
> single devices directly at a distributor. also these could have
> different payment methods, but thats their decision.
>
>
> kind regards
>
> --
>
> Joachim Steiger
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> To resume, there are some dsitributors :
>
> France : Bearstech
> Germany : TRIsoft
>
> we don't already know conditions, and prices with Bearstech, but TRIsoft
> seems to be arrested to 350€ incl VAT (plus fee's shipment)
>
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