Hey you all...
As some of you know, a few months ago I decided to open an online store to distribution Ascilab speakers in US.
Based on voting from membership (thank you!), we placed a rather large, preliminary order a few months ago. As of this writing, fair number of the speakers are built, and others are being finished.
We have a choice in shipping from Korea to us. Standard shipping will cost half as much as air freight but will take a month or more to get here (and then we have to ship it to you). Air freight on the other hand gets here in a week! Further, for ocean shipping, we have to wait until all the speakers are ready whereas with Air, they can be shipped immediately, letting us fulfill orders almost immediately.
Another aspect is that if everyone come through with their pre-order commitment, we have already pre-sold our first order! Staying with ocean shipping means waiting a month or more for production of the next batch, then another month for shipping. So follow on orders will likely take us to end of the year if not beginning of next year.
If you are interested in these speakers, especially if you have already contacted me, please post whether you would pay a premium of say, $70 to have your order shipped by air. Nothing is a commitment. I just need to know which route we need to take as far as our first order.
If it were up to me, we would go all Air and eat the cost but we just don't have that kind of margin. Hence the quest to find out how much you value the faster and more flexible delivery.
Thanks,
As some of you know, a few months ago I decided to open an online store to distribution Ascilab speakers in US.
Based on voting from membership (thank you!), we placed a rather large, preliminary order a few months ago. As of this writing, fair number of the speakers are built, and others are being finished.
We have a choice in shipping from Korea to us. Standard shipping will cost half as much as air freight but will take a month or more to get here (and then we have to ship it to you). Air freight on the other hand gets here in a week! Further, for ocean shipping, we have to wait until all the speakers are ready whereas with Air, they can be shipped immediately, letting us fulfill orders almost immediately.
Another aspect is that if everyone come through with their pre-order commitment, we have already pre-sold our first order! Staying with ocean shipping means waiting a month or more for production of the next batch, then another month for shipping. So follow on orders will likely take us to end of the year if not beginning of next year.
If you are interested in these speakers, especially if you have already contacted me, please post whether you would pay a premium of say, $70 to have your order shipped by air. Nothing is a commitment. I just need to know which route we need to take as far as our first order.
If it were up to me, we would go all Air and eat the cost but we just don't have that kind of margin. Hence the quest to find out how much you value the faster and more flexible delivery.
Thanks,
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but descriptive in that nothing will be sold without my personal testing and scrutiny. The site has been registered for a while now and I am working on building the storefront (using shopify.com).
