[Icehouse] Laser-cut Icehouse storage

[Jorge Arroyo]

Maybe you should have looked for a laser cutting service within Germany, or
at least the EU :) I have a laser cutter I use to make piecepack sets and
other games/puzzles for my shop (in Spain) but I'm sure you can find a
service even closer...

-Jorge

On Jan 8, 2008 8:50 PM, Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> wrote:

> Bob Winans (rwinans at stny.rr.com) wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity how much did the cut sheets cost you?
>
> It actually is not that easy to tell  :)
>
> Cutting cost + Material were about 40 USD according to the ponoko.com
> website (I did not yet see the credit card invoice though). Shipping was
> free due to a promotion from ponoco. I actually did cut some other stuff
> as well, in total the site stated a invoice value of 63 USD.
>
> Customs however assumed that "$" refers to NZD and hence the customs
> stuff seems to be a bit lower than the actual price. However, since the
> invoice (obviously) did not state any shipping cost, the german customs
> office took some magical shipping cost from some magical table: 110 EUR
> (Yikes!) of which 79% apparently contribute to the customs-value as
> well. I ended up paying customs for 119.65 EUR (6.5%: 7.78 EUR) plus
> Import sales taxes for a value of 150.53 EUR (19%: 28.60 EUR) - I have
> no clue where this number comes from actually. Apparently the customs
> value multiplied with some magical factor.
>
> Summa summarum: additional fees of 36.38 EUR plus a 20 EUR "service fee"
> for the import handling by TNT.
>
> This dodgy math at least doubled the price. No, I won't do it again
> unless ponoko has a contractor within germany...  :-/
>
> Which of course sucks, because the service itself rocks.
>
> This makes it a way more expensive case than I planned, but at least I
> learned something (the hard way).
>
> Given that the benefit of the lower sheet of the insert is not that much
> you could do two identical inserts and get two for the price of 40 USD
> at Ponoko. Which makes it more reasonable. I am also pondering about a
> modular system which would allow being more flexible with the insert and
> might be more plastic-efficient, but this is thought-experiments for
> now.
>
> Bye,
>        Simon
> --
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