Just wondering, why use small flat rate box for overseas shipping?
More often than not, it is much cheaper to ship with a custom box. The raindrop GB was proof of that, a bigger box with a $17 shipping worldwide. I am not sure about cost for a box, but I would bet that adding the cost of the box ends up having a lower total cost, and a bigger box.
You can't track them after they have left the US. Not at least for my country anyway.
That is exactly what we're doing.We are using non-flat-rate boxes and shipping by weight for anything that doesn't fit in the small flat-rate box. Based on the tests performed thus far, it would appear that most orders will be in a medium box. Unfortunately, since the shipping will be based on weight, I can't provide exact pricing for how much it will cost to ship.
All I can do is refer to past GBs to provide a ballpark. As I
stated earlier "The most expensive DSA Retro International order was 7bit's and it was less than $50. " In other words, a large box shipped from the US to Germany cost less than $50. That's a great deal cheaper than the flat-rate pricing listed in the OP ($78).
I am really tempted to buy Set 1 + Set 1.1 + Set 1.2 but with those huge shipping prices and possibly 19% import tax I'll end up with ~200$ for it. This would be by far the most expensive set I ever ordered.
Was the Europe Proxy idea discarded?
The proxy idea is still on the table, but as Matt3o stated, we may not have enough ordered to make it worthwhile. We'll make the final decision during the shipping phase when we can calculate the exact weight.
Thank You For Your PatienceI know this is very frustrating for everyone outside of CONUS to have to take the leap of faith that we'll do our best to get you the least expensive shipping costs available to us, but there are just too many unknowns at this point.
Since the sets aren't produced, we can weigh them, or test the packaging like we could if we were doing the standard DSA sets. Thanks to the SP Crap Bags, we've been able to make some rough estimates, but it's never going to be the exact. All I can do is point to the flat-rate pricing as a maximum and indicate that it will be less expensive than that.