Reply To: Dreamforge Grav Stug KS Relaunch

[nosegoblinMember 292xp 1]

I would love to know what the fees look like, not being exposed to them myself I have only what I have gleaned through searching. It ‘seems’ to be (for the UK) an eight-pound admin fee? but I have zero confidence that that is the case and no idea if that fee scales up or down based on the total processed.

No one gets around the tax man, those VAT or import taxes get paid by the backer regardless. The manufacturer will build those costs into their per unit price, you just don’t see them as a line item, so it’s less glaring.

 

If I were to offer an EU friendly campaign, I would need to add more margin to the price than most realize. I must pay to have the shipment delivered to a distribution point at the same cost that is listed on the KS… I can drop ship to save money, but that will delay your rewards by a week or two while it sits on a dock waiting to be bundled with other shipments headed to the destination port.

I must then pay the VAT plus additional fees to the ‘payer of record’, for processing the VAT.

I then pay the transport to the facility that will ship to the destination.

I then pay the distribution point a service fee for each item shipped and the postage required to get it there.

All of that adds up to costing more and adding more time, then keeping it a straight transaction.

 

All those fees will need to be added to the product cost and passed to the consumer.

The difference is that the backer would not need to see it as a line item or deal with paying the RM or tax man.

 

Please feel free to correct me if you feel I am wrong. I would love to learn if there is was way to make this work, I have yet to find one.