@love,
A have another few general questions:
- Is there already a shipping quote and a calculation of the shipping costs per cab?
- Is it possible to ship parts with the container? Parts that forum members buy between now and the container shipping, with delivery address coinopwarehouse.
- What if there are not enough cabs to fill a complete container? I suppose that the shipping costs will then be divided by the real amount of cabs. This could get very expensive per cab.
- what if the container shipping doesn't take place at all, f.i. if there are only a few cabs bought by us and shipping per container would be too expensive? People who bought and paid for a cab might want to withdraw in that case (it could after all in worst case more than double the initial price). Is this possible?
These questions may seem a bit critical, but i think that it is important to be as transparant as possible. There is a lot of money involved.
- Shipping for a 20' container (20-25 games) is $3850 to Berlin Germany, for a 40' container(40-50 games) is $4430 to Berlin Germany. It might be cheaper if the stuff is not going to Berlin (obviously its not!). Also I am not 100% sure about the target harbour yet. So we are talking $180 in case of 20' and about $100 in case of 40' container.
- Parts are no problem. Let me know when you want to ship and I ll provide the delivery address.
- If not enough cabs, splitting price between cabs going to be shipped is the way to handle it yes. I actually had a epiphany yesterday and will contact P-Man to join forces on a 40' container. Lets see what he thinks of that. (Edit: He is organizing a container too and I am pretty sure its a 20' one.)
- If you paid and its not going to happen, we can only sell the games in the US again. Obviuosly you would lose money in this case.
@ckong: Honestly, I do am worried about some of the factors you touched here too from time to time. But looking at the situation, I think that it will work out fine. Don't forget, we've got time. Up to 6 months. There are also other forums like ukvac and jamma+ and arcadezentrum you name it.
Also I for myself have 10 games ready to ship to europe already!