European Shipping or Warehouse

[williamg209]

Is there any plans to have a way for cheaper shipping to Europe (Including UK) or have a warehouse based there?, the shipping is just too much for me, even stuff is onsale the shipping is too high to want to buy anything 

[LogicalDrm]

Shipping to Europe, in terms of price, is fine. Times are bigger issue. And you would still be paying for tax and possible import fees. Those will be baked in, if there's European warehouse.

 

The warehouse was mentioned on some WAN Show in past two months. But there's no official information about it AFAIK (I'm about 3 weeks behind with WAN Shows).

[williamg209]

its gone down since last time i looked i admit but overall it ends up being 16 quid which will put off most people from buying unless its a large order

[Middcore]

This has come up many times, you can find previous threads discussing it.

 

The costs and complications of opening an overseas facility are not trivial for a business of LMG's size. 

 

1 hour ago, williamg209 said:

16 quid which will put off most people from buying unless its a large order

 

Twenty bucks doesn't seem unreasonable to me for overseas shipping. 

[ToboRobot]

1 hour ago, williamg209 said:

its gone down since last time i looked i admit but overall it ends up being 16 quid which will put off most people from buying unless its a large order

FYI: It costs about 20 dollars Canadian (12ish gbp) to ship a small light package to a different city within Canada. 
 

[williamg209]

8 minutes ago, ToboRobot said:

FYI: It costs about 20 dollars Canadian (12ish gbp) to ship a small light package to a different city within Canada. 
 

well Canadian shipping and uk shipping at very different, i wouldnt pay more then £5 for shipping in uk

[williamg209]

14 minutes ago, Middcore said:

This has come up many times, you can find previous threads discussing it.

 

The costs and complications of opening an overseas facility are not trivial for a business of LMG's size. 

 

 

Twenty bucks doesn't seem unreasonable to me for overseas shipping. 

suppose, ive seen worse

[ToboRobot]

36 minutes ago, williamg209 said:

well Canadian shipping and uk shipping at very different, i wouldnt pay more then £5 for shipping in uk

Not really, because it starts in Canada and ends up in the UK.  Globalization yo.

[williamg209]

1 hour ago, ToboRobot said:

Not really, because it starts in Canada and ends up in the UK.  Globalization yo.

i was clearly referencing you saying 20 CD for shipping accross Canada and then me saying its around £5 to ship across the uk

[LogicalDrm]

13 hours ago, williamg209 said:

its gone down since last time i looked i admit but overall it ends up being 16 quid which will put off most people from buying unless its a large order

 

9 hours ago, williamg209 said:

i was clearly referencing you saying 20 CD for shipping accross Canada and then me saying its around £5 to ship across the uk

Then what's your problem? £16 = $20USD. Now you are saying you are fine paying £21 = $26.5USD (which is standard for medium packages internationally). If I were to buy something off Amazon (German) and not get free shipping for it, shipping across Europe would be €13 at lowest and commonly €18-€23. For bigger size, I've paid €27 just inside EU.

[Mihle]

12 hours ago, williamg209 said:

well Canadian shipping and uk shipping at very different, i wouldnt pay more then £5 for shipping in uk

If they had an European warehouse, it most likely would not be in UK. Netherlands/Germany would be more likely candidates.

 

There is a reason for that companies like Logitech, Dell etc, have their storage for their own stor, or where they send their European RMA replacements from, is Netherlands.

 

It would cost more than what you pay for shipping inside of UK. I would even go and say that 5£ shipping is very cheap. I don't think small order shipping cost would become that much cheaper if LTT store had a warehouse in Europe, on small sized orders. Where the difference would be is on larger orders like buying a backpack or plenty of things together where current shipping is 40+ USD.