[hpsdr] Order status and delivery scheduling

[Erich Heinzle]

Having ordered boards a week or two ago, I am yet
to receive any confirmation from TAPR.

Overseas purchasers such as myself are perhaps more
mindful of exchange rate fluctations which can add
as much or more than the shipping cost..

Even if the boards aren't shipped straight away,
speaking for myself, I would like to have the amount
I am billed in USD locked in soon after I order, so
that I am not hit by AUD/USD fluctations which have
at times been up to 5 or 10% in the space of a month.

Perhaps this could be an option that overseas
purchasers can say yes or no to when ordering.

Food for thought.

On the bright side, the AUD is up 1.5c vs the USD
this morning :-)

Erich
VK5HSE





> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:58:28 -0500
> From: AA8K73 GMail <aa8k73 at gmail.com>
> To: HPSDR <hpsdr at openhpsdr.org>
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Metis Delivery Stats
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> 
> An interesting quandary.
> 
> If you choose a FOFS shipment procedure,
> do you use the HamSDR TAPR page, or the
> TAPR.org page to choose sequence?  After
> all, the group support for Metis started
> at HamSDR.
> 
> If you have a First Ordered First Shipped
> policy, will that mean that your web pages
> are probed to find the page before it is
> announced?  Will your web site crash due
> to everyone trying to order at once?
> 
> If you give no order preference, then we
> can relax and casually order.  This is
> not eBay, we are doing a group purchase
> using TAPR's volunteers who are helping
> to advance technology.
> 
> 
> I remember when one of the HPDSR boards
> was shipped first to the most distant
> locations in an attempt to equalize the
> arrival to everyone.  That was a mess.
> 
> 
> If I was a volunteer in the shipping group
> and looking at making, say 400 shipments,
> I would try to ship the fastest ones to
> process first, followed by the ones that
> required the extra handling and paperwork
> for customs forms.
> 
> 
> On 02/25/2011 03:26 PM, Andrea Montefusco wrote:
> > ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio
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> >
> > On 02/24/2011 02:09 PM, Chris Smith wrote:
> >> If past deliveries are anything to go by, local,
> i.e.
> >> continental USA, are first to be sent, then
> overseas. I
> >> haven't been able to determine any pattern in what
> happens
> >> after the majority of USA orders have been
> despatched.
> > Yes, a strange delivery policy: FIFO would be
> preferable,
> > especially because I placed the order on Dec 2 :-).
> > BTW, in the meantime the credit card number that I
> inserted into
> > the order became useless (because it arrived at the
> end of life)
> > and this created more hassle if ever.
> >
> >> TAPR do a great job and we just have to be
> patient.
> > I fully agree. My comment above is not a complain.
> >
> > *am*
> >
> 
>