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$19 shipping (Canada) is a little outrageous

anybody in Greater Vancouver wanna do a bulk order w me?




Sorry :( I use PostNL, and its actually even more expensive, on most non EU shipping I lose

but each deck has pdfs you can just print them with your local printing shop, if you don't print the box it should be cheaper

you can also just print them on a4 paper and cut it with scissors, its not the end of the world, it is even helpful to explain to someone with pen and paper as well.

in this case: https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/unix-pipe-box.pdf this is the box and https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/unix-pipe-cards.pdf are the cards


It's a wild idea to take a completely digital asset, print it in Europe on to paper, and then put it on a ship and slowly transport it to Canada.


12 Euros is a fairly standard price for tracked postage across continents.


Not the same, but I mailed a sweatshirt to a relative in Sweden from the US and it was like $36 and if I wanted it tracked the whole way it would have been something like $55. Granted this was USPS and maybe shopping it around would have been cheaper, but I had no idea that international shipping was so expensive considering you can buy stuff from china and shipping is basically free.


Come on, you can print it yourself if you want and it's clear that at this price and shipping from Europe he earns close to zero on these.




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