rtryland
June 12th, 2013, 04:37 PM
Ladies and Gentleman,
After having seen some of the beautiful colors of Akkerman Ink that are out there I have decided to look into purchasing some for myself. The good news is that the ink is now available online, the bad news is that it ships from the Netherlands.
So, before I jump out there and make an order for myself at just a single bottle with close to 20EUR shipping I thought I would open the floor to a possible group buy scenario.
I will be willing to have the bottles shipped to my residence and then carefully repackage them and send them on to individual persons anywhere CON US.
By what I can see if we make an order for 10 bottles the shipping cost is around 50EUR to get them here or 5 bottles at 30EUR shipped to my home in Tennessee. The cost of the ink per bottle is currently 13.50EUR due to no VAT which comes to around 186-187EUR to get 10 bottles here. At the current exchange rate as of 12-June-2013 that comes to right around 250USD making each bottle about 25USD to my door. I will then have to package and ship each bottle to your door which will cost materials and a bit of time.
That said, I feel comfortable that with a group buy in, we can make this possible at around $40.00 per bottle to your door. The exact cost may fluctuate due to exchange rates and shipping rate and method chosen once inside the US. I will make final calculations if we can get a group buy going.
Given that I am a new member, I both understand skepticism regarding my post and encourage everyone feel free to touch base with me regarding any concerns.
If the order amount comes to less than 5 Bottles, I can handle the out front expense and will ship to you upon receipt of your payment. Anything over that amount would need to be prepaid. The reason for this is I feel confident that I could resell bottles that I prepaid for but don't want to sit on a large amount of inventory.
Mods: Feel free to move this thread if it does not belong in the For Sale listings.
Cheers,
Thomas
After having seen some of the beautiful colors of Akkerman Ink that are out there I have decided to look into purchasing some for myself. The good news is that the ink is now available online, the bad news is that it ships from the Netherlands.
So, before I jump out there and make an order for myself at just a single bottle with close to 20EUR shipping I thought I would open the floor to a possible group buy scenario.
I will be willing to have the bottles shipped to my residence and then carefully repackage them and send them on to individual persons anywhere CON US.
By what I can see if we make an order for 10 bottles the shipping cost is around 50EUR to get them here or 5 bottles at 30EUR shipped to my home in Tennessee. The cost of the ink per bottle is currently 13.50EUR due to no VAT which comes to around 186-187EUR to get 10 bottles here. At the current exchange rate as of 12-June-2013 that comes to right around 250USD making each bottle about 25USD to my door. I will then have to package and ship each bottle to your door which will cost materials and a bit of time.
That said, I feel comfortable that with a group buy in, we can make this possible at around $40.00 per bottle to your door. The exact cost may fluctuate due to exchange rates and shipping rate and method chosen once inside the US. I will make final calculations if we can get a group buy going.
Given that I am a new member, I both understand skepticism regarding my post and encourage everyone feel free to touch base with me regarding any concerns.
If the order amount comes to less than 5 Bottles, I can handle the out front expense and will ship to you upon receipt of your payment. Anything over that amount would need to be prepaid. The reason for this is I feel confident that I could resell bottles that I prepaid for but don't want to sit on a large amount of inventory.
Mods: Feel free to move this thread if it does not belong in the For Sale listings.
Cheers,
Thomas