Have you guys found a good and inexpensive source for aluminum stars? None of these will be going in high power lights, so no need for copper. Just want a decent-but-inexpensive AL star option.
$1.38 for 10pc ($0.14/ea), or quantity discount would be $5.60 for 50pc ($0.11/ea). But to get the 50pc price obviously then you would only have one size star.
i sold to a member GUNGA in canada? to test int’l shipping… it was EXPEN$IVE.
I only charged him “like he was in the USA”, and paid it out of my pocket? because i was curious about int’l shipping…
it actually would be “okay”, but… anything thicker than a piece of paper? it goes thru the roof…
I will check when i go to the post office and see?but be prepared for sticker shock… that said? I’ll ship it to the planet JUPITER if the customer pays the shipping.
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I received a padded envelope from the US , without tracking , last week , for 4.5$ shipping .
Take a look when you have time. Thanks
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okay… just like you said? members from all over europe and eastern europe… were telling me the same thing. A couple/several dollars…no big deal.
when i am AT THE POST OFFICE, though? All i can DO is tell the lady behind the counter “how much to ship this to Malaysia” and she weighs it, and checks the thickness? and says “it’ll be this much… (a LOT!) ”:
Then i politely explain how “everybody” says thats wrong…. the lady behind the counter claims that if its any thicker than a piece of paper? its THIS price…
I cant MAKE the people at the post office “do anything”. The lady behind the counter keeps saying “Look, its too thick… and i don’t care what some guy in Malaysia is telling you.”
Honestly? i believe you guys… i really do… but you have to convince the lady behind the counter at the POST OFFICE, not me. I will try again. Trust me? I dont like losing sales because the lady at the post office has been taught to “upsell me”.
mine should be here soon.
i will mount one and critique it.
going to put a few in my “polished turds” link
they should be more efficient than the china luxeon clones.
…and thanks to BOAZ and the others? who “persevered” to train me to ship international…
whoever was saying it was the “thickness” was right… i was just shoving the strips of REEL into the padded envelops.
they curl up and sit sideways…… i taped them to a piece of notebook paper? layed FLAT stayed FLAT and you couldnt tell it wasnt just a piece of paper in there, heh heh
lady finally gave me reasonable shipping, cost just like to here in the states…
i assume all/most countries will cost the same as DENMARK did?
gonna try GREECE next…
plus i went back and PMed the guys back on the “interest thread” that got this going, so they dont feel left out, i mean the couple international guys that thought i couldnt ship to them, as not\w i probably can.
now i am thinking about a “giveaway”… i’m well over 500 posts… seems to be a “rite of passage” that when you go from regular flashaholic, to “semi pro flashaholic”, you are supposed to do a giveaway…
Hmmm… Since shipping to EU seems to be reasonable…
Wait… What am i gonna do with XP-G anyway…?
Hmmm… I’ll think of something… maybe…
Give me a couple of days.
i also sent them lots of 12ax7 but they are no good after being flattened to fit an envelope.
another hint.
lay the peel strip side on the paper.then they wont open when you peel the tape off.
I am just about to make this deal “semi permanent”.
IE, we wont be running out anytime in the near future. i am about to finalize on some more. price should be the same, it looks like… just more of them available is all.
