类型: GB
作者: fstop
发布时间: 2012-03-22
23:00:55
更新时间: 2012-03-23 02:00:03
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=29014.0
//Lots of Text//
You can skip down to the TLDR at the bottom if you
don’t want to read it all.
Last week I had three wrist
rests for sale, and to my surprise they were in very high
demand. Initially I got them straight from Iomania through
kant1971 (he’s a member of GH but doesn’t seem to post much
anymore) but when I discussed the idea of a group order he
said it wouldn’t be practical, and that no discount could be
offered, except a little savings in shipping. It wasn’t a
whole lot cheaper this way but I ordered a few units to see
if they were worth proxying. I ended up liking the thing a
lot, and it seems to have sparked the interest of quite a
few GH’ers and OCN members.
I decided to organize a
group order and was able to figure out some estimates. Since
I will be using a personal proxy, we will have some extra
fees to take care of. He’s a proxy from Korea through
another friend, so we’re paying mostly for his time, and
less so for the service. He will order from Iomania, and
ship to us. It’s not the most efficient way of doing it, but
I have yet to find another alternative. With that said,
these will still be significantly cheaper than any other
source you can currently get them for in the United
States.
You‘d normally have to pay $70 plus for a
single unit. This group buy only works because it is
discounting the main issue with getting these wrist rests:
the shipping cost. If you check on Iomania, these are only
$17 (USD) , or roughly $25 after shipping within Korea. But
shipping it outside of Korea can cost over $70-80 for one
unit. Pretty much defeats the purpose of it. I’m going to
offer both the TKL and Full size models, as far as I know
nothing else exists (i.e. poker/hhkb compatible variants,
other colors).
Here would be the price structure for
the TKL model (full size is a few dollars more):
1 unit
@ $ 68 (base price reference)
5 units @ $48 each
10
units @ $40 each
20 units @ $35 each <— target
goal
40 units @ $32 each
// sorry, meant
to say this doesn’t include the proxy fee. I’ve estimated
that to be between $2-4 per unit depending on the actual
total //
This include the base price of each
unit ($17), domestic shipping within Korea, shipping from
Korea to me. It doesn’t include domestic shipping from me to
you or the yet to be determined proxy fee so expect to add
about $10-15 dollars to these prices for the final total.
Because of the weight/dimensions of these wrist rests
(anyone that owns one can attest to how heavy they are),
anything past 20-40 units the price will remain relatively
the same. The main purpose of this group buy is to mitigate
the costs of shipping, and not trying to discount the
already low price of the wrist rests themselves. I’ve only
negotiated for 20-40 units with my proxy as ideal. I don’t
see prices changing unless we get to 60-100+ units, at which
point it might cost even more because that would be a lot of
work on my proxy’s end. But we’ll worry about that if we get
there.
Now for the problems we might have:
Kant1971 said I might get hit by import fees. For the
four that I initially ordered, he estimated the fee to be
about $25, but nothing showed up for me. Anyone know what
might happen if 20-40 of these show up at my place? It would
obviously be a problem if I have to end up paying $200-300
in fees.
Possible alternative sources for these?
Keyboardco has very limited tock and won’t do a group buy,
neither will Iomania directly. Can anyone help me contact
the manufacture and see if we can work out something
cheaper? I would ask my proxy but it’s not exactly his
responsibility.
How do you guys suggest I ship these
out domestically? How do you guys ship out Full-size
keyboards? These come in a box that is the exact shape as
the wrist rests themselves, but both the TKL and full size
come in the same box (same length). The few that I have sent
out this past week have had varying shipping costs depending
on their location in the U.S. (between $6-11). Shipping them
in their original box probably wouldn’t be safe since
there’s no cushion or packaging within them. And finding
boxes that are the right length / dimension seems really
hard.
Anything else?
TLDR
Milestone wrist rest group buy.
$40-50 each
(probably).
TKL or Full size models through personal
proxy form Korea who will order from Iomania directly.
Issues
with import taxes / cheaper alternatives / domestic
shipping. Help!
If you need more reference for these
check out these threads:
http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:28460
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?28673-A-bunch-of-new-stuff-Milestone-TKL-wristrest-amp-the-upcoming-KMAC&p=553883&viewfull=1/#post553883