[Arm-netbook] Shipping costs

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Fri Aug 12 15:10:47 BST 2016


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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:42 AM, m016fec3 <hier at wolfgangromey.de> wrote:
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> Now I understand and accept, what shipping costs means: It is not the
> actuall shiping cost for delivering the goods to my home, but my pledge
> to make worldwide shipping possible. In some countries these cost are
> lower and in others they are higher.

 yes.

> So people in contries, where the actual shipping costs are higher, are
> able to pledge and the EOMA68 can get a foodhold in these countries too.

 correct.

> I was misled by the term shipping cost and as I don't want to give more
> than the neccessary money to the delivering firm, I thought, bundeling
> would make it cheaper.

 it doesn't

>  So maybe CrowdSupply should make that clearer,

 yeahhh i feel it's a little complicated (as we've witnessed!) to put
on the page, although the wording "shipping cost" doesn't help, i have
to agree.  not sure what term could be used in its place?

l.



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