[Arm-netbook] $250 Dev Kit

[Alejandro Mery]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 15:28, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2012 08:10 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
>>> If I manage to buy the kit I'll make everything included available to
>>> you... I was redirected to someone @wits-tech.com who expects me to be
>>> a company with customer number with couriers and stuff while I want to
>>> pay with credit card and get it shipped using china post... -><-
>>   joy!  hmmm... we can probably help there.  or, bari might be able to
>> as well: you have reliable/trustworthy contacts for money-transfer /
>> sample-shipping, right?
>>
>>
> I do, but I would consider Allwinner to be pretty reputable at this
> point and not take his $250 and run off to the casinos in Macau.
>
> You most likely will have to TT them the money. I'm not sure where you
> are located but in the US it's referred to as a bank wire transfer.
>
> Allwinner probably also expects that you have an account with Fedex, DHL
> etc. that they can write on the label and have them pickup. So you might
> have to add a bit to cover the cost to have them ship it. Which makes
> this more complicated since you transfer them the funds and then they
> have figure out how to shift your funds into them paying a courier while
> keeping their accounting dept happy.
>
> If this gets too difficult since they aren't used to dealing with a
> credit card and including the shipping cost, please let me know.

I can deal with the monster fee the bank will charge me for making the
wire (TT), but if they don't accept to ship it using regular
registered air mail I am not interested in buying the kit nor keep
doing anything related with this SoC. There are plenty other SoCs and
kits I can use to develop the arm skills I seek.