TheCube wrote:Could this be correct? Any additional fees?
careful.
the 200 us$ shipping fee sounds TGTBT (too good to be true).
I paid 90$ on sweetwater shippings of far lighter and smaller tools,
and for an expensive, heavy, big and fragile keyboard you need top-quality shipping and insurance.
[size, weight, fragility and value all determine shipping fees and/or custom duties]
Finally:
when the value of the shipping is relevant, UPS and DHL may charge you additional fees at arrival even if the shipping is pre-paid by sweetwater.
I often buy sport implements in the USA,
and once imported a big and heavy tool.
The shipping fee was 300 us$ and pre-paid, but in the end I paid 250 euros more to UPS, in the form of "custom duties management", "local post fees",
because the shipping is meant "to Customs". What happens in Customs is not considered sweetwater business. If a document is less than perfect (or, in Italy, if they can't find it...
) they can hold the parcel for a week, and you end paying for storage (I did
) and for processing.
I live a few kilometers from the largest freight airport in Italy, and from the Customs transit warehouses (so, what the heck is "local postage fees" for 50 euros?).
I don't say "don't". I say "careful with calculations".
When buying a synth I always calculate usd/eur at 1:1, and unfortunately there's no way out if the synth is heavy.
On light packages (DSI tetr4, the likes) I managed to spare money.
This is not meant as a negative comment on sweetwater (they are very good),
but rather as a negative comments on UPS, DHL [NEVER use U
SPS for expensive things] and European Customs,
which dissipate sweetwater's good work for European customers.
