LED Group buy!
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For people ordering drivers through this site, you pretty much have 2 good options. There is a 30W 700mA driver for up to 10 LEDs, and a 60W 700mA driver for up to 20 LEDs.
In order to control each color individually, you should group your LEDs of a single color on separate circuits, so determine your driver needs accordingly. For example, if you have 20 blue, 10 royal blue and 10 white, you should order a 60W driver for the 20 blues, and a 30W driver for the royal blues and a 30W driver for the whites.
In order to control each color individually, you should group your LEDs of a single color on separate circuits, so determine your driver needs accordingly. For example, if you have 20 blue, 10 royal blue and 10 white, you should order a 60W driver for the 20 blues, and a 30W driver for the royal blues and a 30W driver for the whites.
After our orders are finalized. We can negotiate with him and send him a list. This is what what of the other guy did with him. If you go to his store and select on the "other" category, you notice he create a separate invoice for that guy. It has the LED strip icon and in the detail, he listed the details. That way, every item is clearly shown and the shipping is just one item. What do you guys think?
He's been pretty willing to work with me/us on things so far. If he can create a custom invoice, so much the better.
Derek, one thing I noticed on aliexpress is they say "UPS is the preferred carrier of AliExpress. UPS provides excellent value with fast, reliable door-to-door service and complete shipment visibility through detailed tracking information." I used UPS Express and was very happy. I've never heard of EMS before. I suggest going with UPS because of my past experience with them.
Derek, one thing I noticed on aliexpress is they say "UPS is the preferred carrier of AliExpress. UPS provides excellent value with fast, reliable door-to-door service and complete shipment visibility through detailed tracking information." I used UPS Express and was very happy. I've never heard of EMS before. I suggest going with UPS because of my past experience with them.
Here's the invoice he created:
http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/903774/0-402676591/invoice-to-Mr-Nidzelsky-from-Felix-Su.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/903774/0-402676591/invoice-to-Mr-Nidzelsky-from-Felix-Su.html
It's not individual per se. For the rheostats, for 7, its like $25 in shipping, for 1 its 25 in shipping. So what I did, there are 3 people buying rheostats, So i divided 25 by 3. If you go through the site and add the items up you want to order, the shipping will probably double. Give me a few, and I will post exactly what I did to calculate shipping. I did this because if I split it evenly, some people only ordering 1 or 2 items would get charged more, and those of us ordering 5 or 6 would get a huge discount.
Let's negotiate with him. But let's try to finalize what we need before we put the chip on the table and have an official discussion. We need to send him an itemized list of what we need to show him that we are serious. It's kind of like buying a car. Seller won't negotiate and sell unless they know what what want is serious. With our order, he will likely negotiate since he is making a big profit with the large quantity.
True...I'll wait till he negotiates a shipping price.
I just don't want to be locked in to the order if the shipping is going to be this high. I was originally thinking that we all may have to pay $10 to ship the stuff. I would have thought $60-80 should be a reasonable shipping cost for all this light stuff.
I just don't want to be locked in to the order if the shipping is going to be this high. I was originally thinking that we all may have to pay $10 to ship the stuff. I would have thought $60-80 should be a reasonable shipping cost for all this light stuff.
Ok so here is how I calculated shipping. I would also suggest you go to the site, add everything you want to your cart, and see what the charges are. Then compare to what I am sending you. I am human, and it’s possible I made a mistake on 1 entry.
I will use the Rheostats for an example.
Each rheostat is $1.71 (Cell R13). The shipping cost is $29.35 using UPSE (Cell R11), regardless of if you order 1 or 7. During checkout, it gives us %54 off of shipping for some reason (using the same shipper with everything? I am not sure why it does this, but it does). So that brings the shipping down to $15.98 (Cell R12). There are 3 people ordering this item (Cell R3). So I divided $15.98 by 3. To get shipping per person of $5.33 (Cell R18).
The more people that order the same item, the lower shipping goes. But if you are the only person ordering the item, you end up paying full shipping.
I thought his would be fair. So whoever is ordering only 2 items, only pays there part in the shipping, instead of paying for my 6 items.
I will use the Rheostats for an example.
Each rheostat is $1.71 (Cell R13). The shipping cost is $29.35 using UPSE (Cell R11), regardless of if you order 1 or 7. During checkout, it gives us %54 off of shipping for some reason (using the same shipper with everything? I am not sure why it does this, but it does). So that brings the shipping down to $15.98 (Cell R12). There are 3 people ordering this item (Cell R3). So I divided $15.98 by 3. To get shipping per person of $5.33 (Cell R18).
The more people that order the same item, the lower shipping goes. But if you are the only person ordering the item, you end up paying full shipping.
I thought his would be fair. So whoever is ordering only 2 items, only pays there part in the shipping, instead of paying for my 6 items.
Zooid;77492 said:
True...I'll wait till he negotiates a shipping price.
I just don't want to be locked in to the order if the shipping is going to be this high. I was originally thinking that we all may have to pay $10 to ship the stuff. I would have thought $60-80 should be a reasonable shipping cost for all this light stuff.
I just don't want to be locked in to the order if the shipping is going to be this high. I was originally thinking that we all may have to pay $10 to ship the stuff. I would have thought $60-80 should be a reasonable shipping cost for all this light stuff.
$300 in shipping is crazy. My original order was like $100 in shipping, I figured adding in extra people the shipping would not triple, but it would stay the same.
Dereck, we really appreciate your time and effort in putting this together. The spread sheet you created was genius. I wouldn't even know where to begin. I'm sure by now and when we order, people are still changing their minds. Let's finalize on a time to try to get our orders nail down.
Before you negotiate with the seller, send out an email with the spread sheets and post notice to everyone for confirmation and send their final changes to you and confirm. Then, when we negotiate (I don't know how this work yet, but assuming success), we get the final shipping price. After we get shipping price from the seller, we (you) can recalculate all of our shipping for us. I trust your calculation skill and the genius that goes behind it. You can let us know. Then we can pay you. Then you can order.
Again, thank you for all of your hard work.
First thing first, let's come up with a schedule on when you need for us to do what.
Before you negotiate with the seller, send out an email with the spread sheets and post notice to everyone for confirmation and send their final changes to you and confirm. Then, when we negotiate (I don't know how this work yet, but assuming success), we get the final shipping price. After we get shipping price from the seller, we (you) can recalculate all of our shipping for us. I trust your calculation skill and the genius that goes behind it. You can let us know. Then we can pay you. Then you can order.
Again, thank you for all of your hard work.
First thing first, let's come up with a schedule on when you need for us to do what.