Re: [OPEN Batch#2] Gridseed hosted(or not) groupbuy 190$/unit or 150$ with hosting
Guys, I don't know if this is a scam.
BUT, allow me to give you some FACTS:
1. GRIDSEED only take orders directly if the order is bigger than 500 units, for a small order like 200 units, they pass to resellers.
2. GRIDSEED wholesale price is $158 for 500-999 units and $155 for 1000+ units. No one will get a better price (unless you are a friend of their CEO)
3. Even if you buy from GRIDSEED directly, you need to pay for domestic shipping (They use SF-Express, and customers pay for shipping), forwarder handling fee, international shipping.
YOU DO THE MATH!
Maybe this is a really good offer and they are making loss by offering a price of $150. To me, too good to be true.
Sorry jefe541 I believe you know what I said was all true. Maybe you have other plans to get profit. In that case, your offer will be hot.
BUT, allow me to give you some FACTS:
1. GRIDSEED only take orders directly if the order is bigger than 500 units, for a small order like 200 units, they pass to resellers.
2. GRIDSEED wholesale price is $158 for 500-999 units and $155 for 1000+ units. No one will get a better price (unless you are a friend of their CEO)
3. Even if you buy from GRIDSEED directly, you need to pay for domestic shipping (They use SF-Express, and customers pay for shipping), forwarder handling fee, international shipping.
YOU DO THE MATH!
Maybe this is a really good offer and they are making loss by offering a price of $150. To me, too good to be true.
Sorry jefe541 I believe you know what I said was all true. Maybe you have other plans to get profit. In that case, your offer will be hot.
Hi JustASIC, let me answer you.
1. Completly true, how i said as some costumers in PM or when we met for a coffee, i buy with a partner, this time we bought 1200 units,
next batch we hope more.
2. Yes we are near to $155.
3. Yes, how you could read in my thread i'm employeed in a import/export company, we mostly work with asian countries and we know some good tricks.
We'll earn don't worry about it, our is a good offer, our plan is proposing low prices to get more costumers, for hosted plan with a little higher fees (5%).
Regards,
Jefe541
Jefe has me on ignore, but he quoted me just over US$100 per unit for 277 units by PM. So he's either lying about the price here, or in PM. Fishier and fishier... Especially opening up a second group buy before even delivering on the first. Almost like he doesn't want people having time to get suspicious.
Still not officially calling scam, but the red flags are beginning to pile up.
Edit: The price he quoted me was for batch 1 units, so it was naturally higher than what he's quoting now. Further to the above he'll also have to pay VAT and duty on imports to the UK, which adds up to a solid 27%, so if he was offering units for as low as $100 and change in a bulk order and only breaking even he must be getting units for less than $85 apiece (cbf doing the exact maths) on an order of a few hundred units, while for batch 2 he claims they had to order over 1000 units to get a price close to $155? And if the cost price is close to $155 then how is he offering 400+ units for $75 apiece? Hmmm
I wonder if anyone can get Gridseed to respond to an enquiry about whether this guy has actually placed an order...