I would be happy to hold some local stock and then handle orders from Australia and say New Zealand or other Pacific destinations at cost. The Australian Customs declaration is relatively simple and can be hand-filled, with the Post Office happy to give me a supply of blank forms.

I have handled a number of international group purchases this way.

Bill, VK7MX

On 1/06/2017 7:47 AM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io wrote:

These are good ideas. I'll investigate this further...thanks!!

Jack, W8TEE

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From: Graham <planophore@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] #W8TEE Foreign orders

Jack,

a couple of thoughts,

1) put your design on oshpark as a shared project. Others could then order (in multiples of three) at a reasonable price.

2) contact Hans Summer G0UPL ( I seem to recall he is a member of this group) who runs he may have some good ideas on how to better do what you are trying to do.

Either way, your commitment to providing these boards at a reasonable cost is commendable

Cheers, Graham ve3gtc

On 2017-05-31 19:30, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io wrote:

All:

I just spent an hour at the post office while they processed each foreign order. Last night I spent another several hours filling out export/customs forms. Potentially, each country charges a different amount on packages to their country. Because the PCB "cannot be bent during processing", it has to be sent parcel post, rather than first class mail, which is much more standardized. The cheapest rate was over $9 to Canada and the most expensive were several European countries just under $15! I was stunned. I still sent the packages, but everyone in Europe only has a $2.62 credit as that's what I assumed the charge would be plus a little more. I told people read the postage cost on the outside and remit that amount less $2.62 since you've already paid that. In most cases, that make the board stupidly expensive.

If the European Union has one rate for parcels, my solution is to sell a bunch of boards to one place in the Union and let people order from them. Same for the Pacific Rim. Another solution is to find someone who likes waiting in post offices and filling out forms and let them handle the foreign orders. The third alternative is to not take foreign orders, but that's unacceptable to me.?

So, if you have some great idea for solving this problem, please write me off-line so we don't chew up bandwidth here. I'm good in QRZ.com. If something looks like it will work, I'll inform the group.

Also, I'll post to the group when the new shipment of boards comes in.

Jack, W8TEE

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