* WordPress T-Shirts: Cool Color, Cruel Shipping Costs
by Tony Hung on August 15, 2007
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?
5 comments
Makes a change the poor souls in Timbuktu always get a poor deal ;)
by Tim Nash on August 16, 2007 at 1:11 pm. #
Hey, fair enough, Tim … fair enough. :)
by Tony Hung on August 16, 2007 at 6:48 pm. #
Yikes, only available in red? I’m the opposite – don’t care for bright red t-shirts!
by Webomatica on August 16, 2007 at 7:46 pm. #
As a fellow Canadian, I feel your pain… we always getting burned on shipping… I wonder why that is?
by Tim L. Walker on September 9, 2007 at 3:12 pm. #
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