Re: [Hampshire] OLPC B1G1 - UK RIP Off.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:09:45 +0000, Stephen Davies
<stephen.davies@???> wrote:
> The £50.00 is even worse thn I thought.
>
> 1) It is FAR above the standard Amazon shipping rates for something that
> size & weight
> 2) And even worse, AMAZON US shipps to people in the US of A FREE.
>
> Someone has commented to this on Groklaw earlier this afternoon. They
> are bang on.
>
> As was often quoted in 'The Office', "Are you having a laugh?"
> Taking the piss more like.
>
> I think they have definitely lost some sales from Hants LUG because of
> this.



The XO is being shipped from OLPC in the US (not Amazon UK). I had an XO
shipped from the States and IIRC it wasn't cheap (about £35-£40 I think -
and it costs about £10-ish to ship within the US anyway).

Laura