Price Wrong?

[craigix]

this page is to be ashamed of

and name it something other than pandoraxxx.html. The first time I saw that link, I thought it might be porn.

It was called that because it was not supposed to be public anymore. Anyway I've updated it.

 

[1magus]

Ok I finnaly ordered my Pandora , my father is concerned that the shipping was not including on the "ridiculous price" of 380 dollars. Is the shipping included? Or Is the Pandora basically 400 bucks now?

 

[greendots]

Its all listed on the site... if you cant even do the math your going to have a hard time with the pandora

 

[1magus]

Its all listed on the site... if you cant even do the math your going to have a hard time with the pandora

A very nice answer as expected from people on these boards <_< no offense to the nicer people.

 

[LineOf7s]

Shipping is not included, no.

 

[1magus]

Shipping is not included, no.

Shipping appears to of been included since my total price was 380 USD or so. I don't see how shipping is not included 349 + 25

 

[LineOf7s]

I'll clarify: shipping isn't included in the Pandora price of $349. Yes, I expect your invoice of $380 includes the shipping.

 

[gruso]

Line O' Sevens meant that shipping is not included in the regular Pandora price. Obviously it's included in your invoice total though. They're not going to send a second invoice for shipping now, are they?

..ninja'd etc

 

[LineOf7s]

Three minutes more win than Gruso. w00t! :lol:

 

[itsmyusername]

includes VAT tax

Value Added Tax tax?!

UK equivalent of the "Tax on frivolous taxes" here in the US.

uhmm.. yeah, i know..

what i mean is, the word tax in VAT tax is redundant..

 

[WizardStan]

uhmm.. yeah, i know..

what i mean is, the word tax in VAT tax is redundant..

It's from the department of redundancy and unnecessary repetition department.

 

[kloplop321]

redundant VAT tax is redundant

I'm glad we don't have it here in the US. We do have Sales Tax though.

 

[crade]

Sales tax is the same thing.
I don't understand why the government doesn't have all the money yet. Taxing income *and* spending, should result in all money being in the govt's hands eventually right?

 

[WizardStan]

Sales tax is the same thing.
I don't understand why the government doesn't have all the money yet. Taxing income *and* spending, should result in all money being in the govt's hands eventually right?

The government then spends that money paying road workers, firefighters and police, buying supplies, hiring contractors to build parks.
The funny thing is that the government takes your money for taxes, pays a firefighter, and then takes some of the money they paid back as more taxes

 

[craigix]

We have reduced the price of the Pandora by £5 for anyone paying by bank transfer as it costs us less to process this.

 

[neko]

We have reduced the price of the Pandora by £5 for anyone paying by bank transfer as it costs us less to process this.

What about checks or money orders? Bank transfers from the US are really expensive, often much more than £5.

 

[Sugar_Kane]

What if someone wanted to pay entirely in 1p coins?

 

[jasay]

What if someone wanted to pay entirely in 1p coins?

If my math is right it would cost more than 300 USD to ship a Pandora's worth of GB pennies (pence?) from California (don't ask why I would have 280 BGP in pennies in the US, I don't). Please pardon my use of commas as thousands separators.

Weight of 28,000 pennies (in pounds so I can enter it into the UPS website) = 3.56g/penny * 28,000pennies/pandora * 1kg/1000g * ~2.2lbs/kg = 219 lbs of pennies/Pandora.

Volume of said pennies = <pi * (10.16mm)^2 * 1.52mm> * 28,000 * (1cm^3/1,000mm^3) = 13,801 cm^3

Dimensions of a cube shaped box to hold said pennies (in inches for UPS website) = cuberoot(13,801 cm^3) * 1inch/2.54cm * [1/0.75] = 12.59inches per side.

The value in square brackets [] above is a guess to correct for the volume of the box that can be occupied by coins stacked in cylinders.

In total it comes to 302.50 USD for 7-day shipping or 1485.40 USD for 3-day shipping.

 

[craigix]

It's bizarre how you still have British pennies in the USA even though you changed to the cent/dollar system.

(goes to google to understand).

Edit: Back from google. Still no idea why you still call them a penny.

 

[jasay]

It's bizarre how you still have British pennies in the USA even though you changed to the cent/dollar system.

(goes to google to understand).

Edit: Back from google. Still no idea why you still call them a penny.

Never thought about it before, almost certainly just historical usage that was never overcome. According to wiki the official name is "cent" or "one cent piece" depending on who you ask, but I've never heard it referred to as such. Also didn't know they changed the reverse side, looks very odd without the Lincoln memorial.