ImportSharkMike
Active Member
Ok, so long story short, we've had a good amount of inquires from potential customers NOT located in the USA. If inventories are imported here to our warehouse locations either in California or New York, then re-shipping to locations like Australia, NZ, the Middle East, etc will result in these individuals having to pay a premium. The alternative was keeping a portion of the inventory at NGM's Asia warehouse and they can simply drop-ship international orders for us. However, since some countries have a limitation on parcel size for EMS shipping services, that would force us to upgrade to another shipping category, such as EMS Premium, DHL or Fedex. Again, higher cost. After discussing this with the factory, they suggested to make each pipe multiple parts so as to reduce the shipping size. Pretty simple solution really. Instead of using flanges, they are going to make it so the pipes can slip into one another and get clamped in place. This would keep the cost to a very reasonable level no matter where the final destination is. We technically wouldn't even have to import a large inventory here to the US for domestic (and Canadian) customers since the overall cost would be similar. Of course, we'd like to do so just to have the parts physically in hand, but since we've got Asian warehouse space as well, then that can be utilized too. So basically, where we're at is simply going through the re-do of the tooling jig, samples and then calculating final costs. I'd rather not put an estimate on when these will be available, but it won't be much longer. Maybe 2 weeks. Again though, don't quote me on that. I'll post an update as soon as possible.
