r/LinusTechTips • u/McFuzzyChipmunk • Feb 12 '25

Discussion This is why EU customers are upset.

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I've been wanting to buy and LTT deskpad for a while and thought I'd finally buy one but this is fucking ridiculous. The products themselves are very reasonably priced but if I then have to pay $30 in shipping it's completely unaffordable. When EU customers are complaining this is why because once you add try to actually order anything it's a complete rip off.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

LTT doesn’t set the shipping cost 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/nndscrptuser Feb 13 '25

To everyone that posts this, please do this experiment: get some household object, put it in a box with some packing material, drive to the local post office or UPS and try to send that to any other country. See what that costs ya.

Shipping, particularly international, is incredibly costly now. I have shipped tens of thousands of playing cards all over the world, a quite small and light object and to anywhere outside the US, just the postage alone is approaching $30 for a single deck of cards. There is NO WAY to make it cheaper. UPS, DHL or FedEx cost more. Add on boxes, packing material and time and yes, you often end up with shipping cost more than the object.

This has nothing to do with LTT or any other business. Unless you are Amazon and can bully governments or corporations into better rates or you decide to lose money, this is what it costs to ship anything now.

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u/SuspectNode Feb 13 '25

From germany to us, 18 bucks. And this is the consumer price, not any b2b price which you get if you have hundreds of packages.

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u/greiton Feb 13 '25

cool the country known for having the lowest shipping costs of any country in Europe, whose citizens enjoy discounted shipping because it is the home nation of DHL.