William Hook’s Blog

So, since my last post, I’ve since asked Jay, the sysadmin for TVF, to order a Chumby for me and post it to me in the UK. Actually, he got two, because JamieMc wanted one too. =P

Good news: it’s arrived in the UK.

Bad news: Parcel Force are holding them both hostage for £44 in fees. £14.12 in VAT and £8 for the “Parcelforce Clearance Fee”, which totals £22.12. As there are two of them, it’s £44.24.

This has ended up being annoyingly expensive. Chumby was roughly £98, plus I sent Jay about £15 extra to cover the postage. I still owe him $20 USD more, and now there’s this £22 fee, plus I need to pick up a £12-ish power adaptor from Maplins for the US voltage. So…that’s like £160. Perhaps it would have been cheaper to go for a weekend in Italy…