Fujitsu Tablet Offering - Process and Pricing

["Gareth Cook" <gcook@xxxxxxx>]

This information is also at
http://quickplaceuk.lotus.com/ukhomeautomation

Once we have identified the costs as
close as possible, I will then arrange a "cut-off" for
registrations to the UKHomeAutomation Fujitsu registration site. From that
moment on, you will then need to login using your username and password you
specified when you registered. This will be used to confirm and track your
order.

To order a unit, you must pay upfront.
There are many ways to do this. Options are :

1. By Cheque
2. Bank Transfer (A/C 89116763, S/C
60-07-33)
3. via PayPal
(https://www.paypal.com/refer/pal=g%40uk.ibm.com)

Once the website cutoff has occurred, we
will look to place the final order 7 days later (to allow for monies to be
sent and cleared).

I also proposed that the costs are as
follows :

$75          
     Unit Cost
$15          
     Shipping
3.7%          
     Import duty (Code 8543 899599) - this is applied BEFORE
VAT.
17.5%          
     VAT
Unit,shipping, Duty and VAT total (based
upon above numbers) is $109.66 (£78.33 at 0.6 exchange rate)

Once in the UK
£15          
     Full redirection recorded delivery, re-packaging (they
will not arrive in single units), my time, effort, management, storage..
Every single unit must be identified, tracked, boxed, labelled, and sent
off for delivery around the UK.

If you collect we remove the postage
costs.
If there are any monies outstanding,
they will be refunded promptly. To allow for any changes, I would currently
put a figure of £100 for each unit - makes things easier on the numbers..
Once we are ready to order, this will be adjusted (more than likely
downwards once we have final shipping totals)

If the cost for these items increase,
you agree to pay any outstanding sums BEFORE shipment within the UK. All
monies are non-refundable - you're not buying from me, so once you order,
deal is done. If you don't pay up within 4 weeks, you lose the money and
the order and will be auctioned off to the UKHA list. Conversely, if there
are access monies paid (after deducting postage costs, etc) then you will
refunded.

Once you login to the site and confirm
your details, you will accept these terms. And God help me for what I'm
about to do.

G.




UKHA Bulk Buy Guidelines (from Mark
Harrison)
Some thoughts about payment and
administration:

- The "charged" services like PayPal and NoChex are really
intended for
transferring money to people you don't know or trust. As such, you're
paying a premium for this.

- By comparison, the simpler expedient of getting the recipient's bank
details, and arranging a transfer is cheaper, and works well. (I've
used
it to send money to Keith, and to get money from Paul G).

- Where one person is arranging a group order, there are three possible
areas for resentment:

1: The person making the order has ordered extra items on behalf of
people who effectively change their minds once payment has been made by
the orderer... This means that the person organising the deal gets
pissed off and is left with items in hand.

2: The person making the order is perceived to be making a profit on it
- in my experience, it's virtually impossible to break even on these
deals if you need cash up front - currency fluctuations if nothing
else!

3: The person making the order puts in a lot of work, and then finds
out
that some people have bought items at £x from him as part of the deal,
only to sell them immediately for a large markup.




I would suggest, therefore, that the following is the best set of
ground
rules...

1: The organiser tries to work out a "delivered, duty and VAT paid
in
the UK" price, including delivery to the organiser's house/office.

2: The organiser adds 10% to this price as a contingency and publishes
this price as the "if you want to send me money now, this is the
price
you'll get charged" price.

3: For those wishing/able to collect direct from the organiser (either
individually or on behalf of a local-area group), that is the price
that
needs to be paid IN ADVANCE.

4: For those wishing that the organiser should deliver, they arrange
individually a fair sum for this carriage, which is also paid in
advance. (Or perhaps, in arrears for the actuals, given the sums are
likely to be relatively small.)

5: The organiser uses the 10% contingency to over-order volumes by 5%
to
cope with damaged-in-transit items, and keeps the other 5% as a
contingency against currency fluctuations / "adminsitration costs
imposed by couriers" etc.

6: At the end of the excercise, if there are spare units, the organiser
has 4 weeks to sell them AT ANY PRICE, during which all the other
participants commit to NOT selling their units on!

7: Finally, if the organiser is left with a surplus, then they have
three options, depending entirely on what they feel is appropriate:

- Keep it as a "thank you" from the group
- Put it behind the bar at the next UKHA get together as a drinks float
- Cut it up, and send small sums back to the participants!

Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

---

For more information: http://www..automatedhome.co.uk
Post message: ukha_d@xxxxxxx 
Subscribe:  ukha_d-subscribe@xxxxxxx 
Unsubscribe:  ukha_d-unsubscribe@xxxxxxx 
List owner:  ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.