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no fun!! it's really expensive

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If you look at the dates, it was Tuesday, Aug 12. But really, what is happening here?

Chicago(other us/canada)

ChicagoPortugal

lol that didn't work, forgot about the html stuff.

Portugal is really fucking far away from Chicago, OK? Geez.

Yes, Portugal is far away from Chicago. Europe is far away from Chicago. But do you know that a lot of people who buy here don't live in the US of A? Geez.

Hey.... the faster shipping speeds that were announced the other day have disappeared... I was depending on those! I need a shirt this week as a present.... :(





Whas de dillio?

Included in that money are a few bucks necessary to grease various palms and stuff.



Also, you can get more shirts on sale under the Euro limit (maybe 2 or 3 if you get any of the $5 shirts).



But, yeah that sucks.

Framble, the faster shipping speeds might have disappeared because they're still making tests. Fast shipping to Portugal with UPS put me in trouble with customs, since they declared the total value (tee+shipping) instead of only the tee value. It took me three days to clear it, i.e., the 1-3 day shipping turned out to be a 5-day shipping.

wait, so I was right?

Well that's bloody inconvenient.......

You were bloody right, Mike4507. We know the when, now I want to know the why.

lol, that has nothing to do with the fact that the one small threadless factory in Chicago is far as balls away from Portugal. Give the guys some slack? Most of the customers started out as and still are from US and Canada, so they're still tweaking ways to ship it more conveniently across the pond I'm sure. Where has all of the patience gone from the world? Geez.

Deadandroid, the question is not why it is expensive, is why it became so expensive. Less than a month ago it was $8.50, now it is $15 - some more days and it might double?

Geez...you are a fucking stupid guy...GEEZ



http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Portugal&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:pt-PT:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

Deadandroid:

estupido americano duma figa...aprende um bocadinho de história seu débil mental e vais ficar a saber que portugal já existia muito antes de vocês pensarem que são um grande potencia que policia o mundo.

gente mais ignorante.



kisses

Please don't feed the trolls.



Please don't underline text on the Internet, people will think it's a link.



Seriously, people (specially you from Europe - yes, London, I'm talking to you - and Paris - and Berlin), what happened? Please tell me we won't have to take our business elsewhere (I personally don't want to).

$9.50 - $8.90 = less than a dollar.

would you really take your business elsewhere over 60 cents?

Shipping prices have risen in general recently, 'cause of the gas and all. Don't know if that's related to this rise or not.

In fact, ofthecoast, $8.90, then $9.50 and now $15.00 - $6.10, in less than a month. Are the gas prices on the US still going up? Here they started to drop a little. Anyway, I'd like to hear the Threadless guys say something about it.

Credit crunch.

I can think about a lot of plausible reasons for the shipping costs going up: gas prices, credit crunch, green goblins from Patagonia, etc.



What I don't understand is how the shipping costs have gone up so fast - almost 70% in less than a month. Last time I checked the USA didn't have Zimbabwean inflation.

Well according to the rumour mill threadless is releasing a new shipping method that gets the tees to europe in a few days rather than weeks but that would be a big anouncement not snuck in.

They already announced it! And then stopped it.... now I need to think of a new gift before Thursday.

Oh, burn

Yes, a new shipping method that gets tees to Europe in 1-3 days is soon to be release (in fact, I'm helping them test it). But this method costs like $25 for a t-shirt, so I'd only use it in case of emergency (someone's birthday present, for example).



For all my other orders I'd like to stick with the 5-10 days shipping (which was fine when it was priced at $8.90 for one tee, but it's hard to grasp at $15 for one tee) or even the 1-3 week shipping when I already have something to wear :).

radiostaticstar, I already asked them. But as you know, customer service doesn't work on weekends - and it's a nice topic to discuss. Nobody should continue buying without knowing that shipping prices have gone up that fast!

buuuuuuuuuuuuurn,

eruo rumors? hm??

hey brunonery

refer to radiostaticstar's comment

it's wise

Sorry, RobertSilver, but how am I supposed to do that?

(BTW, radiostaticstar told me to get costumer service with the big Threadless image).

i said refer, not click



and that's how i feel about that









but besides that; might be gas prices, or it might be charlie festa using the money to develop a new hair tonic that would make his beard even more epic

I asked Harper and he didn't know, so I think that it's not Festa using the money - if it is, he has the secret well garded.



The gas price is a good candidate, but a 70% rise? Please tell me you're not going that bad in the USA. :o

it's based on weight and always has been.



I live in the European Union (Portugal), and my first order (Jul 29 2008, 1 t-shirt, 5-10 days) shipping was priced at $8.90. My second order (Aug 8 2008, 5 t-shirts, 5-10 days) shipping was priced at $15.50. Next order (Aug 12 2008, 1 t-shirt, 5-10 days) shipping was priced at $9.50.





your first order of 1 shirt would have fallen into the one pound margin and your second order of 5 shirts would have fallen into the 2lb margin. The shipping services that we use round up to the nearest pound.



And yes ...gas prices are affecting everything (International Packages Shipped by Air especially) and that could be why you may see a very small increase on your 1 pound items.



The new fast method ran into a few snags in certain countries but some countries still have the option. We are working hard on solutions so that it is not only fast with tracking but also affordable.



There has not been a 70% rise in shipping :)

What used to cost $6.43 via economy for one shirt to Australia, now costs $11.00. I don't see this as a very small increase?

This blog makes me love radiostaticstar.

aww,

you two...



now i'm blushing, or i've got a fever...

see, now you've got the fever for the flavor of a pringle...

As s2.jen.s2 said, $6.43 to $11 isn't a very small increase. And as I said, $8.90 to $15 isn't a small increase - it's almost 70%, for God's sake! How do you explain that, wearecareful?

Don't you think $6.43 to $11 is a big increase, Jebbie? 71% it is - in less than a month. Do you think it's normal? Oh, Jebbie, you make me feel smart.

You're a moron. It's already been explained. Your first order was one shirt. Your next order was 5 times as big. That's why it cost more. You need to look at your next order of only one shirt. So as ofthecoast has already pointed out your shipping has actually only increased by less than a dollar. Jebbie is a lot smarter than you.

ya know,

based upon the cost for shipping on Aug 12 2008, for 1 shirt,

had you ordered the previous 5 tees individually,

shipping would have cost you 47.50.

so i'd say, 15.50 sounds like a steal.



as for the thriftee shipping,

i wonder if that may have been an error.

5.50, i agree, seems to be quite an increase for compensating for rising costs.



just remember,

like wearecareful said earlier, it's all based on weight.

so any increase would likely be that of the shipping company.



and,

what jebbie said.

except for all that "i live in australia", etc, etc...

Also, the Australian dollar is worth 86 US cents, whereas a Euro is worth US$1.47 so Bruno is getting a heaps better exchange rate.



Not to mention, his shirts don't have nearly as far to go to get to him as they do to come to us. So not only is it cheaper to send them to Portugal because of the exchange rate and also because of the shorter distance travelled, it's quicker too!



And on top of that, Threadless is negotiating a European distribution centre to speed up deliveries to Europe!



We have it so terrible in this country I'm surprised I've never bothered to make a blog in which I piss and moan every time the cost of shipping a package fifteen thousand kilometres goes up by a couple of bucks.

Also, Bruno is wearing 5 tees from the $5 sale in his gallery pics.



Seriously, that's what? 3 Euros? Are you really worried about that coming in under the 22 Euro customs limit. And are you really worried about having to pay the 20% VAT on that if it doesn't?



If you don't want to have to pay for shipping to Europe. Buy your t-shirts in Europe. They should only cost you about 30 Euros. But think of the savings on shipping!