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Wow if only somebody here would stock those.....
Thanks for the update. Ocean freight along with all other freight is through the roof right now so no big surprise. There will certainly be a story behind these lights if anyone asks..!!OK, for those of you following along, here's a "purchase update" as of this afternoon Tues Feb1.
I'm going to give you more information than you probably want, but I would rather give too much than too little.
Money: The money I sent last week arrived in the Brazil account on Monday morning and the conversion rate was ~5.31 B$/US$. That's down (not as good) from the ~5.53 B$/US$ I got in Dec.
Product: The cost per pair (now read this carefully) at the jobber was B$1080/pr, and including shipping to the Forwarder in Brazil it's B$1111/pr. Adding on the Forwarder's service fee, 20%, yields B$1333.20/pr. Taking into account the conversion rate, that amounts to US$251/pr. That's a little lower total cost than we got this past December by a few $/pr. So far, so good.
Delivery in Brazil: I know the jobber had product in stock and I assume he'll ship promptly to the Forwarder. Once received, the Forwarder will inspect the items and report back to me whether there are any issues we need to resolve (e.g., damage in transit, etc.). I'll pass the information along, appropriately.
Shipping cost to the US is still TBD because of, at least, logistics and conversion rate, but figure it'll be around $50/pr. It might be higher, so don't have a fit if that's the case, or it might be lower. I hesitated to offer an estimate but I'm sure you guys want to know, so please be forgiving
Final remarks for today: Plan on this dragging on for at least the next two weeks and possibly into March.
Well I tell you what. Go ahead and take one for the team and head over there and purchase 25pairs and bring em back over here and sell em for double the price that way you make a profit and have a paid for vacation lolThe import tariffs might be an concern. Maybe someone can decipher this document (a few of my notes are within, but I don't know they're correct).
Anything that pushes the cost up pushes the demand down
Back in 2019 the conversion rate was around 3.25:1. Today it's 5.33:1... they're a LOT cheaper today then they were when I first bought mine back in 2019, and it's not clear what the future might hold. The point: What looks like a good market today could be a bad market tomorrow.
Thanks for the update. Ocean freight along with all other freight is through the roof right now so no big surprise. There will certainly be a story behind these lights if anyone asks..!!
Well I tell you what. Go ahead and take one for the team and head over there and purchase 25pairs and bring em back over here and sell em for double the price that way you make a profit and have a paid for vacation lol
Ahhh! I didn’t realize it was air freight. The company I work for does a lot of international ocean freight and rates for a 20’ container are about 4-5 times higher than a year ago.It seems they come via *air*. Yeah. The last couple of shipments took about 5-7 days.
Here's one of the tracking numbers, see for yourself.
EB130200520BR
Enter that number in USPS' WWWsite (yup) and on the ensuing page click on "Tracking History". They showed up on my doorstep around 7pm on a Monday evening after one week, having shipped from Jacobina, Bahia!
Man, if the US had a base down there and you knew a guy with a PSC box, shipping would be about what it is here in the states. And there'd be no import tariffs!