Sipping to my country is $80 which is just ridiculous, it is almost half the price of uConsole, and on top of that i would have to pay import taxes which are 30% of total price (item+shipping) and 30$ fixed fee to dhl/fedex for handling import paperwork
If i order uConsole with wifi only and without cm4, which is $119, it would cost me almost $300 after shipping and taxes, almost 3 times the price!
Anyone else in the same situation, any idea, suggestions?
Don’t know which country you are in but see if there is a country yours has a low or zero tax/zero tariff agreement with and has a reshipper. Order goes to Country A with the reshipper, reshipper sends it to you in country B.
It’s similar for me as well, 80$ shipping + 20% (22% next year ). I decided to go with package forwarding service from China, they give you Chinese address which you input on checkout, the shipping cost was something like ~2$. Once they receive your package they will forward it to your address charging 5$ + selected method of shipping. My estimated shipping costs is going to be ~40$ + taxes on arrival.
But keep in mind that this is untested way, I’m sill waiting for my shipping notification. I only communicated with them by email, they reply quickly and they are long time in operation according to my research – so seems legit.
Most you should be hit for is VAT and depending on what Clockwork have put on the shipping you should slip under the chargeable threshold. It seems a bit hit or miss, a laptop i had reshipped from France i got hit, a micro desktop from China…not.