Ok, here is a deal for you swedes.
I mailed bgmicro and asked about shipping costs for 20 and 30 fans to sweden.
Here is the reply:
"Hi,
I won't know the exact amount until the order is actually packed, but I can
come pretty close. 20 fans would be about 32.00 for airmail, or 42.00 for
express. 30 fans would be about 38.00 for airmail, or 50.00 for express."
Ok, so what would the actual price be?
here is a calculation for 30 fans:
$82,5 for the fans
+ $38 shipping
= a grand total of $120.5; thats 1130kr (in swedish currency)
except that we must also add toll(3,5%) and VAT(25%) and possibly some shipping cost that the swedish post office charges, ca. 100kr (info from
www.tullverket.se)
which makes it something like this:
1130*1.035*1.25 = 1460kr
+ shipping cost (ca. 100kr)
and the total cost would be 1560kr for 30 fans.
So that would be 52kr/fan ($5.5), quite an ok price i would say! Considering that the same fan costs 125kr to buy online from a swedish vendor!
And consider that this is pretty much a worst case scenario, if we get lucky maybe the package could slip trough and we get away without paying the toll and VAT (probably not very likely(?)).
In that case the fans would cost 38kr a piece ($4), and thats the absolute best case scenario.
The only question that remains is, how fast is airmail to sweden really?
It sounds pretty fast to me, but what do I know?
So Choy what do you say?
I have a friend who probably would be in too, and with you we would be 3, so an order for 30 fans could be apropriate perhaps?
Maybe you could doublecheck my calculations though? I'm not 100% sure that I got all the import rules right (I'm pretty sure though).
I have also followed the situation with Panaflos and it feels quite absurd that a decent product like that is not marketed in the EU area. And that´s bad for noice and cost conscientous consumers like me.