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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6341126" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Back to the original question, though -- it's shipping things out of the US that costs so much. </p><p></p><p>You might ask why not do two print runs, one in the US and one outside, so that you don't have to ship out of the US ever? Pretty much every Kickstarter creator thinks of that very early on, opens up a spreadsheet, and finds out that it doesn't (usually) work. The problem is that printing costs are massively dependent upon volume. If you split it into two, the printing costs go up, and the amount can often be by even more than the shipping costs were; that increases the price of the product for everyone. Same with just doing PoD for those customers not in the US - you're reducing the size of the initial print run, thereby increasing the printing costs, and therefore increasing the price of the product for both US and non-US customers. That said, if, after the project is over, you find you have only a teeny tiny number of non-US backers (that doesn't apply to me, sadly) you can probably do that without impacting the major print run much, and the numbers might work out. I didn't get chance to find that out, though - I had a lot of non-US backers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6341126, member: 1"] Back to the original question, though -- it's shipping things out of the US that costs so much. You might ask why not do two print runs, one in the US and one outside, so that you don't have to ship out of the US ever? Pretty much every Kickstarter creator thinks of that very early on, opens up a spreadsheet, and finds out that it doesn't (usually) work. The problem is that printing costs are massively dependent upon volume. If you split it into two, the printing costs go up, and the amount can often be by even more than the shipping costs were; that increases the price of the product for everyone. Same with just doing PoD for those customers not in the US - you're reducing the size of the initial print run, thereby increasing the printing costs, and therefore increasing the price of the product for both US and non-US customers. That said, if, after the project is over, you find you have only a teeny tiny number of non-US backers (that doesn't apply to me, sadly) you can probably do that without impacting the major print run much, and the numbers might work out. I didn't get chance to find that out, though - I had a lot of non-US backers. [/QUOTE]
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