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Anyone planning a Makerbot order?

Posted by Barney

Barney

Anyone planning a Makerbot order?
August 25, 2009 07:46AM

Registered: 15 years ago
Posts: 24

Is anyone planning to order their electronics (or whatever) from MakerBot in the US? I need a magnetic rotary encoder PCB, which I can't find anywhere in Europe, but from MakerBot I'd pay £1.22 for the PCB + £17.42 postage + £2.80 VAT + £8 handling charge = £29.43 which is ridiculous for a $2 pcb. I HATE paying more in p+p than the cost of the goods!

So does anyone want to do a combined order & share postage costs? If you're ordering one of the electronics kits, the postage charges don't seem so steep (since they're constant, except the VAT).

Thanks!

Barney.

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annodomini2

Re: Anyone planning a Makerbot order?
August 25, 2009 11:22AM

Registered: 15 years ago
Posts: 248

Maybe more cost effective to get a local pcb fab to make the board, the designs are open source and on sourceforge.

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DaveR

Re: Anyone planning a Makerbot order?
August 25, 2009 02:54PM

Registered: 16 years ago
Posts: 186

I know what you mean. It's a lot of postage.

I've been thinking about possibly getting some UK PCBs made up too. However, it's difficult to justify - I have a working set of gen 2 electronics - getting a gen3 set 'because I want to'.

:-)

Does anyone else have experience getting boards made up?

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Grant McArdle

Re: Anyone planning a Makerbot order?
April 18, 2010 06:21AM

I have a completed Makerbot for sale - works great, nicely made.
White inside, blue outside, electronics plus PSU located in lower
section of case.
£500 wanted, cheaper than buying the kit ( no haggling ), buyer collects, Cambridge location.

Grant