I am super exited about my mnt reform next but I am very dobtful that the crowdsupply approach of shipping things from Europe to the US just to send them back. There needs to be an alternative strategy I would even come to Berlin an pick up my device but the current approach makes little sense in the current situation.
Seconded. Some who joined this forum recently might be interested in a thread a while back to discuss a route to more localised manufacture here.
We share this concern of course. The Reform Next shipments are quite a while in the future and I’m sure the situation will develop significantly until then. We’ll also be in touch with CS/Mouser about this.
Side note about US based MNT assembly: In a different political climate, I’d be totally considering to do some assembly in the US. I even had some discussions about this with Cyber City Circuits back in the day, for example. But the prices for US local manufacturing are really quite high, higher than a 20% tarrif. And you’ll still have to import many of the components.
At this moment, I think it’s best to wait a bit until the dust settles.
When faced with an inconsistent policy based on publicity stunts, it is wisest.
I wanted to chime in here… I’m in Vancouver, Canada, and received a package from USA recently (a week or so ago). The value of the item was written as $200 USD (about $279 CAD). Upon arrival of the package, I was hit with a bill of $195 CAD (which converts back to about $139 USD). That basically amounts to paying 170% for the respective item. In the case of the Reform Next, that would be A LOT of money, like prohibitively large amount of money to the extent I’m not sure I’d want to purchase the machine if it was going to cost 70% extra. I really hope a solution can be found before the product ships – can CrowdSupply do a batched shipment to a Canadian distributor, or something like that, for example?
What was the customs code of the item / what kind of item was it?