August 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

For those of you who use Wordpress for their blogs (and, with the greatest respect to Anil Dash, I suspect that its most of you), you may have noticed that Wordpress now has shirts for sale internationally.  I like the color red, which is fortunate, because it turns out you can only get these Wordpress logo emblazoned shirts in red.  What I don’t really like, however, is the shipping costs.  I live in Canada, so to get those T-shirts shipped to Canada (from a Chicago area shipping station) actually *more than doubles* the cost of the T-shirt.  The actual shirt costs $17.  Shipping cost?  $17.50.  The funny thing is that if you live in, say, Timbuktu, the cost of shipping *there* (in fact, *anywhere* in the world) from the UK is only 4.50 pounds. which is about half the cost of the T-shirt (9.50 pounds).  I’d love a T-shirt, but there is no way I’m paying more than the actual cost of the T-shirt in shipping costs.  And does it really make sense that it costs more to ship to Timbuktu than Toronto?

4 Responses to “* Wordpress T-Shirts: Cool Color, Cruel Shipping Costs”

  1. Tim Nash :

    Makes a change the poor souls in Timbuktu always get a poor deal ;)

  2. Tony Hung :

    Hey, fair enough, Tim … fair enough. :)

  3. Webomatica :

    Yikes, only available in red? I’m the opposite - don’t care for bright red t-shirts!

  4. Tim L. Walker :

    As a fellow Canadian, I feel your pain… we always getting burned on shipping… I wonder why that is?

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