Comment by nasduia - Hacker Neue

nasduia Feb 26, 2016 parent

"Shipping to United Kingdom starts at $36.00 (£25.67 GBP)"

More than the product!

hga Feb 26, 2016

$8 to the US; I get books and CDs from the UK for $4 including S&H thought Amazon.com, granted, those outfits do it in bulk, but I wonder why it's so much more.

Tron-Club, which ships kits, packets of electronics and a manual once a month from Canada, will ship to the U.K. for £3.99, or £14.99 total vs. $19.99 to the US (http://tronclub.com/subscribe).

CraigJPerry Feb 26, 2016

Tron club looks awesome, I just subscribed. Thanks for sharing this

hga Feb 26, 2016

You're very welcome. They make a few mistakes which they correct (on the forum and then ship with a subsequent kit), but they're otherwise totally awesome, just got my 7th kit.

Here's a prior HN discussion: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=9889777 and per my comment, they do indeed do a moderate amount of analog.

jrjr Feb 26, 2016

Can't even bother to localize to the US for shipping. someone isn't telling the whole story eh ?

call me when it's 0.49 to ship.

jrjr

dang Feb 27, 2016

From the HN guidelines:

"Please don't sign comments; they're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

cmrdporcupine Feb 26, 2016

That shipping rate also applies to Canada, so something is really messed up on their end. That's inexcusably high.

ascorbic Feb 26, 2016

They're probably sending by DHL or something. They could send something that small by USPS for under $5.

rgbrenner Feb 26, 2016

Maybe 20 years ago. USPS isn't sending anything in a box to the UK for less than $20 (delivered in 2-3 weeks.. unless you want to pay double for priority).

ascorbic Feb 26, 2016

This is a tiny module. It'll go in an envelope.

rgbrenner Feb 27, 2016

Well if that envelope is more than 3/4inch thick or has more than 1/4in variation or more than 2 inches of movement inside the envelope or cannot bend at least 1 in (because it contains a rigid object for example)

Then guess what? It qualifies as a package and not an envelope and you must pay the same price as a box

So again.. $20

ascorbic Feb 27, 2016

If they're sending lots of these it can easily be worked-around. But yes, US postage is ridiculous. I've fulfilled packages that weren't time-sensitive directly from Hong Kong to the US as amazingly it was cheaper than sending domestically from a US warehouse.

I can send a 100g "large letter" from the UK to US for about £3 (about $5), and the only size restriction is that it must fit through a 2.5cm by 25cm slot, and can't be longer than 35cm. No bending or shape restrictions. For an extra £1 I can send a small parcel, which has even looser restrictions. The main problem is that over 2kg the prices jump massively.

These costs are all for 5-7 day delivery.

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