[Nick Zwar]

I participated in THE CHAIRMAN campaign.

[Malte Müller]

I did as well.

[Malte Müller]

I just got my CD from Leigh Phillips’ CRAWLSPACE/PURSUIT kickstarter. Despite the huge shipping costs, custom was just 2,16 Euro but DHL has put 7,50 Euros service fee on top! Well, and I didn’t learn from NOSFERATU and again choose the CD for CHAIRMAN (Thought was if I contribute to it I want the “real thing”). All good things come in threes 😉

[Thor Joachim Haga]

What was the total?

[Malte Müller]

According to my records:

37,85 Euros CD + shipping
2,16 Euros Customs
7,50 Euros DHL service fee
——————-
47,51 Euros

Even given that the regular CD for the Abbott & Costello kickstarter costs expensive 36,95 Euros at Soundtrack Corner the actual price is “okay”, it’s the customs + especially DHL that push this beyond.

NOSFERATU actually was way more off:

47,16 Euros (2CD + Shipping)
3,60 Euros Customs
6,00 Euros DHL Service fee
—————————–
53,76 Euros

Given that you regulary could buy the CD for under 20,– that’s really off…

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yikes!

Each of those constitutes my entire food budget for a week.

[Malte Müller]

It’s not that I am wallowing in money, too 😉

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Hey, James, if you’re reading — I see you’re also doing a fundraiser for your own site. Was it spurred by the FSM campaign?

[Malte Müller]

I was a bit surprised that SSL certificates specifially are named as the reason. His site is a commercially hosted WordPress on wordpress.com (as opposed to ours being self-hosted) as I just saw and actually they provide the free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates as any other standard host does. 200 pound (aroud 230 euros) for yearly hosting is quite steep. But might be a local thing… I actually pay less for two packages over here.

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