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<blockquote data-quote="pedr" data-source="post: 7734621" data-attributes="member: 33464"><p>It seems to me there is no perfect way to do shipping for Kickstarters. As Fred Hicks and Evil Hat have noted, including shipping costs in the KS pledge artificially inflates the total raised (and, as the costs are variable, doesn’t do so predictably). It also puts the risk of postage cost increases on the project in ways which have been disastrous for some in the past. Asking backers to pay later adds uncertainty particularly for those outside the US - so I don’t back US based projects which use that approach. </p><p></p><p>EU friendly shipping means finding a trusted partner of some kind (and it seems that some board game producers have found themselves tied to fulfilment companies which perform poorly and leave the project dealing with dissatisfied backers). That means the project needs to pay the VAT due on importing the product (0% for books imported to the UK making it a good choice while we’re still in the EU; 20% for everything else) and pay the fees charged by the partner. </p><p></p><p>For smaller projects, local print on demand makes sense - but the per-unit cost is considerably more than printing thousands of books in one offset process in the US (or China).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pedr, post: 7734621, member: 33464"] It seems to me there is no perfect way to do shipping for Kickstarters. As Fred Hicks and Evil Hat have noted, including shipping costs in the KS pledge artificially inflates the total raised (and, as the costs are variable, doesn’t do so predictably). It also puts the risk of postage cost increases on the project in ways which have been disastrous for some in the past. Asking backers to pay later adds uncertainty particularly for those outside the US - so I don’t back US based projects which use that approach. EU friendly shipping means finding a trusted partner of some kind (and it seems that some board game producers have found themselves tied to fulfilment companies which perform poorly and leave the project dealing with dissatisfied backers). That means the project needs to pay the VAT due on importing the product (0% for books imported to the UK making it a good choice while we’re still in the EU; 20% for everything else) and pay the fees charged by the partner. For smaller projects, local print on demand makes sense - but the per-unit cost is considerably more than printing thousands of books in one offset process in the US (or China). [/QUOTE]
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