Guest Kimrobin Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 I've got a huge supply of Travel Bugs now. Anyone who wants to buy some, please email me. Moss Trooper's are already on the way to him. Don't get left behind. Order today. Cheers Alex. PS to Jeremy. They got here safe and sound - why the duck? (Marx Bros. 1934) Quote Link to comment
Guest Monz Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 What happened to those hats we ordered Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 That's where that devil duck has been! It must have hidden away along with the Travel bugs. If you'd be so kind as to attach a bug to it and send it on its way, that would be great. I wouldn't mind seeing it again Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 That's where that devil duck has been! It must have hidden away along with the Travel bugs. If you'd be so kind as to attach a bug to it and send it on its way, that would be great. I wouldn't mind seeing it again Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 Re: hats and other products, I'll get a list together this next week and start setting up shipments. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 quote:Originally posted by jeremy:That's where that devil duck has been! It must have hidden away along with the Travel bugs. If you'd be so kind as to attach a bug to it and send it on its way, that would be great. I wouldn't mind seeing it again Jeremy I'll go and put him in "Uncle Sam" over the weekend and see where he gets to from there. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 quote:Originally posted by jeremy:That's where that devil duck has been! It must have hidden away along with the Travel bugs. If you'd be so kind as to attach a bug to it and send it on its way, that would be great. I wouldn't mind seeing it again Jeremy I'll go and put him in "Uncle Sam" over the weekend and see where he gets to from there. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Monz:What happened to those hats we ordered I'm still waiting for Groundspeak to send me the computer program for the geocache logo. Then I can get some hats and polo shirts made. (Jeremy - nudge Bryan again) Quote Link to comment
Guest Monz Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 Alex... I was under the impression that you were going to get some of the hats from the US with the embroidered logo's. I could do the logo onto hat and t-shirt thing myself thanks if I wanted to. Thanks anyway but we will order our own. Quote Link to comment
Guest Monz Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 Alex... I was under the impression that you were going to get some of the hats from the US with the embroidered logo's. I could do the logo onto hat and t-shirt thing myself thanks if I wanted to. Thanks anyway but we will order our own. Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Monz:Alex... I was under the impression that you were going to get some of the hats from the US with the embroidered logo's. I could do the logo onto hat and t-shirt thing myself thanks if I wanted to. Thanks anyway but we will order our own. It was pointed out that if I had a bulk order stopped by customs I could get nailed for a load of duty and VAT, so as I have a mate with a five head embroidery machine it would be easier to make them here. They would be exactly the same as the ones that Jeremy sells. AFAIK the design has over 10,000 stitches and to have a disk made would cost over 80 quid, so I'm in the process of getting the computer pattern from Groundspeak. If you can make them yourself, you must have already had the design digitized. Can I have a copy, then I can make some hats? Cheers Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Monz:Alex... I was under the impression that you were going to get some of the hats from the US with the embroidered logo's. I could do the logo onto hat and t-shirt thing myself thanks if I wanted to. Thanks anyway but we will order our own. It was pointed out that if I had a bulk order stopped by customs I could get nailed for a load of duty and VAT, so as I have a mate with a five head embroidery machine it would be easier to make them here. They would be exactly the same as the ones that Jeremy sells. AFAIK the design has over 10,000 stitches and to have a disk made would cost over 80 quid, so I'm in the process of getting the computer pattern from Groundspeak. If you can make them yourself, you must have already had the design digitized. Can I have a copy, then I can make some hats? Cheers Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Morseman Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 lable and put in an order please? Ta. ------------------ --... ...-- Morseman Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted November 25, 2001 Share Posted November 25, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Morseman: Is there somewhere to email, or a URL for a website, to see what's available and put in an order please? Ta. I've just got travel bugs at the moment. I had some car window decals but they have all gone. If you need bugs, email me. Any of the embroibered stuff, you will have to order from the States until we get sorted out over here. Cheers Alex Quote Link to comment
Guest lathama Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 ok how many u got left? and how much are they - same as the site or a bit more because of what u paid? Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 quote:Originally posted by lathama:ok how many u got left? and how much are they - same as the site or a bit more because of what u paid? They are the dollar equivalent in pounds. I'll email you when I get back from holiday at the weekend with prices. They come in singles or fours. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Postie Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 If you are able to come to the meet at York, can you bring some along?? Postie Quote Link to comment
Guest Postie Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 If you are able to come to the meet at York, can you bring some along?? Postie Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Postie:If you are able to come to the meet at York, can you bring some along?? Postie No problem. I'll bring some with me. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Postie:If you are able to come to the meet at York, can you bring some along?? Postie No problem. I'll bring some with me. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Monz Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: No problem. I'll bring some with me. Alex. Bring me 4 as well will you Quote Link to comment
Guest jstead Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 A couple for me too please! Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 12, 2002 Share Posted January 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by jstead:A couple for me too please! No problem. I have plenty and I'll bring plenty with me to York. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Finger Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 Just to let you all know, i have an order for all the Groundspeak products on the way. i am NOT going to advertise our website here. Please send an e-mail for full details. Regards to all, Finger Quote Link to comment
Guest PHREDD Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Finger:Just to let you all know, i have an order for all the Groundspeak products on the way. i am NOT going to advertise our website here. Please send an e-mail for full details. Regards to all, Finger Please send details of products G0RBM@AOL.COM ------------------ Phredd Quote Link to comment
Guest chris n maria Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Finger:Just to let you all know, i have an order for all the Groundspeak products on the way. i am NOT going to advertise our website here. Please send an e-mail for full details. Regards to all, Finger Please Send me some too.. Chris@fabalou.com Thanks Quote Link to comment
Guest Morseman Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Finger:i have an order for all the Groundspeak products on the way. Finger Please let me have details of what's available. email to ackridj@pgen.net please Thanks. ------------------ --... ...-- Morseman Quote Link to comment
Guest davehinns Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 Yup ditto please - travelbug prices etc. Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by davehinns:Yup ditto please - travelbug prices etc. £5.00 for one or £13.50 for four. Post paid. Alex. Quote Link to comment
Guest Morseman Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: £5.00 for one or £13.50 for four. Post paid. Alex. I got the impression that 'finger' had stocks of the other Groundspeak products as well as Travel Bugs. Or did I missunderstand? ------------------ --... ...-- Morseman Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Morseman: I got the impression that 'finger' had stocks of the other Groundspeak products as well as Travel Bugs. Or did I missunderstand? Don't think so. Dave asked for the prices of travel bugs. I gave them. No missunderstanding on my part. Quote Link to comment
Guest Morseman Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: No missunderstanding on my part. I think the problem I had was that Dave posted after mine, without quoting any message, so I maybe missunderstood his request as being for all Groundspeak 'goodies', with the words "travelbug prices etc." that 'finger' mentioned. I've not had chance to log onto my other pgen.net account yet. Anyway, cheque in the post to Batley today. ------------------ --... ...-- Morseman Quote Link to comment
Guest davehinns Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Sorry - catching up (as always). KimRobin, could you drop me your address and I'll get a cheque in the post (or paypal etc). Cheers Dave@Hinns.com Quote Link to comment
Guest toscouk Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Daft question but how do I find your e-mail address? Your profle does not say, also your named web page is not avaliable. Regards John quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin:I've got a huge supply of Travel Bugs now. Anyone who wants to buy some, please email me. Moss Trooper's are already on the way to him. Don't get left behind. Order today. Cheers Alex. PS to Jeremy. They got here safe and sound - why the duck? (Marx Bros. 1934) Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 quote:Originally posted by toscouk: Daft question but how do I find your e-mail address? Your profle does not say, also your named web page is not avaliable. Regards John Not a daft question at al. I don't know how the email address came to disappear off the profile page, but it's back now. It must have been there before as I've had emails from all over Europe about bugs. Sorry. Alex. PS I've just looked and no email addresses are showing up in profiles at the moment, so I've out it in the web page box. Anyway, it's kim@kimrobin.co.uk [This message has been edited by Kimrobin (edited 18 January 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Finger Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 I am sorry I have not replied to some of you earlier .. I have had a bout of that dreaded virus & have just spent a week in bed .. I could not even find myself with a GPS unit I was so "Out of it". To see what Geocaching Items we have please see our web site price list ( http://www.fingertech.co.uk/pricelist.html ) All the items are in stock. We have all the items on the Groundspeak / Geocaching.com web site. Thanks, Finger. Quote Link to comment
Guest Moss Trooper Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 After Looking at your site Finger I think I would rather wait until I got to US in middle of year an pick up my stuff. I don't mind making a profit but profiteering is a bit off. Take one tee shirt for as an example.. $11.00 in US that you sell for 15 ex Vat. If an exchange rate of $1.4/£1.00 was employed it would cost about £7.86 nearly half of what you are asking. But as we don't live in the real world when it comes to imports from US we will go for the $1.00/£1.00 which seems to be the norm. This would then make the tee shirt worth £11.00 ex Vat. still a 26% increase, then there is the postage of £4.00 taking the price up to £19.00 So an 8 quid tee shirt in US costs 19 quid over here. And by the time you add Vat it works out at over £23.00 Am I write to assume that you also get some form of discount as you are buying in bulk. Sorry bonny lad but I for one aint gona be buying.. Moss de Boss.. sorta Quote Link to comment
Guest swampie Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 how do you work out your prices Finger? Travel Bugs £7.40 plus postage? You can get four from kimrobin for £13.60 post included. (kim@kimrobin.co.uk) s. Quote Link to comment
Guest PHREDD Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 FINGER I hope all your stock is on a "Sale or Return" basis. yuk Quote Link to comment
Guest Finger Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 I agree with some of the comments. Yes we have bought in a largish quantity. Yes we did pay for shipping - A not small amount !! Yes we did pay the import duty. The Tee-Shirts did some real damage there - Very high duty was charged. Yes we did pay the VAT on importation. And NO the bulk discount was not much. I will get the boys back at purchasing to go over their sums again. If the prices are wrong I assure you there will be changes made. I don't make the prices up but I will make sure things are looked at. Regards, Finger Quote Link to comment
Guest toscouk Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Buying and placing the travel bug is the easy part, the hard part is registering the bug and attaching to cache page with no instructions in the travel bug section of http://www.geocaching.com/ did find some still confusing instructions in the forums at http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000098.html. Anyone found easier to follow instructions? [This message has been edited by toscouk (edited 29 January 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Kimrobin Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Finger:I agree with some of the comments. Yes we have bought in a largish quantity. Yes we did pay for shipping - A not small amount !! Yes we did pay the import duty. The Tee-Shirts did some real damage there - Very high duty was charged. Yes we did pay the VAT on importation. And NO the bulk discount was not much. I will get the boys back at purchasing to go over their sums again. If the prices are wrong I assure you there will be changes made. I don't make the prices up but I will make sure things are looked at. Regards, Finger Well I feel for you Finger. If you had read some of the other threads in the UK forum before you ordered the stuff then you would have seen that the idea of a bulk order of Geocache merchandise was binned because of the possible problems of import duty and VAT. I decided just to get a bulk supply of the bugs (people can live without the hats and T shirts). Jeremy mailed them over in a small package which didn't attract the attention of HM Customs & Excise which is why I can sell them for pretty much the same price that Jeremy does in the USA. £5.00 for a single bug and £13.60 for four - including postage. (cheapbugs@kimrobin.co.uk) ALL (i.e. 100%) of the money that I collect gets sent to Groundspeak to help pay for the geocaching.com website (well OK so I used two bugs myself that I didn't pay for, but what the heck.) Jeremy offered me a commission on sales but I didn't want it. I also have the digital design for embroidery that will mean that we can make embroidered hats and polo shirts in the UK at US prices. I just haven't had time to do anything about that yet, but I will get around to it eventually. At the kind of prices that Finger is charging I would think that it would be cheaper to order direct from Groundspeak, pay the shipping but not the duty, VAT and UK carriage. Looks like someone has laid an egg on this one. Alex. Quote Link to comment
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