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

[Kevin Dean]

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!
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>  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!
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>  >  > > >
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>  >  > > >  Steven Kurylo
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