Hi Luke,
I didn't mean to be confrontational, and even included a smiley in an attempt to document that. ;-)
I wasn't arguing at all against your choice of the US as shipping hub; you discussed that before. Instead I was trying to get more attention the point that Wolfgang had raised, and that I havven't seen really addressed yet:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:56:51PM +0200, m016fec3 wrote:
I have pledged for more than one item and have the question, others have them too, if the items will be send bundled and if yes, will the shipping costs nevertheless be summed up as if the items would have been sent seperately?
You somewhat anser this by the following:
from there, the costs of shipping are known to be more expensive outside of the US, due to surcharges which are *totally outside* of our control. this isn't something we can ignore. more experienced people than i have set the shipping costs based on years of direct experience. i don't know what they are - but crowdsupply (and thinkpenguin) definitely do.
I can perfectly take that for an answer, but I probably am not alone in feeling that this is suboptimal. To exaggerate the situation a bit:
my experience has been limited to using DHL and Fedex for personal shipping of items: the costs for sending a 40 gram Computer Card were something mad like $75.
Now if you had had them send you two 40 gram Computer Cards in a single package, would you have been happy to pay $150 for that, even though you accepted to pay $75 for the single card?
From my experience with DHL etc., I would expect the two cards to cost
the same $75, since they fit into the same (rather oversized...) envelope.
Perhaps more directly relevant to the project, I was trying to make the following argument: If shipping costs for multiple items can be reduced, then people outside the US will likely order more of the small items together with the cards and micro-desktops.
Cheers!
Wolfram