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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: G.C.W. on Thu, 20 December 2012, 07:24:52

Title: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: G.C.W. on Thu, 20 December 2012, 07:24:52

That is the question :/

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: kmiller8 on Thu, 20 December 2012, 07:28:19

Where are you shipping from? Asia? CONUS? Some other Country?

I know CONUS -> Europe for light packages (A few keycaps) is ~$3

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: davkol on Thu, 20 December 2012, 07:29:44

Usually up to $25 for things like keyboards or smaller. If it's more (UPS has ridiculous pricing), I just ignore the offer.

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: G.C.W. on Thu, 20 December 2012, 07:32:33

I live in Germany and would like to know what the costs are for a 104 Filco keyboard to ship from CONUS. I have already bought 1 or 2 keyboards from the US and the shipping costs were around 40$. So how and where do you get these prices?

Thanks for the replies.

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: kmiller8 on Thu, 20 December 2012, 07:42:59

Based off of USPS prices:

(Assuming a Filco+packaging weights 3lb 12oz)

From: http://postcalc.usps.com/
Express (3-5 days) $54
Priority (6-10 days) $43
First-Class (weeks?) $29

Most people like to use USPS to ship because it's cheaper than UPS/FedEX/DHL for the everyday person

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: iri on Thu, 20 December 2012, 08:36:24

$88 for fedex's shipping of a unicomp keyboard.

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 21 December 2012, 10:48:44

The key is keeping under 4lbs, or the pricing gets nuts as first class is suddenly unavailable as an option for some idiot reason. It goes from $30 3lbs14oz to $50 4lbs1oz. If it's going to be over 4lbs it's only worth it for the hardest to find items.

Title: Re: What do you usually pay for shipping to Europe?
Post by: DanGWanG on Fri, 21 December 2012, 11:01:18

Some of my recent trasactions:
Under 3 oz. - $3-4
Under 1 lb. - $12-13