Topic: Chumby One - From US to UK, my experience
Since a lot of people seem to want to know shipment times etc I thought I'd share my experience.
Chumby One Order Date - 11/11/2009
Cost $124.90
Money charged to bank account - 20/11/2009
(Showed up on 23/11/2009 as the 20th was a Friday).
Cost $124.90 at 1.605 = £77.80
+ £1.50 Service charge.
Note through the door saying it had arrived in Dundee, Scotland and I needed to pay customs charge: 07/12/2009
(Got note through the door after the office shut so could not pick it up same day .)
Date Collected form post: 08/12/2009
Customs Charge: £12.47
On the Chumby Box, it had shipped date as 20/11/2009.
It arrived in London, at HM Revenue and Customs on 03/12/2009
On Box - VAT was £4.47
Royal Mail International Handling fee - £8
Total - £12.47
I think that the charge would have been more if it wasn't the value on the box being reflected value.
All in Total - £91.77
Total Time to Door - 3 Weeks
Definitely worth the wait. I had an exam this morning but was more interested on getting my hands on my Chumby One.
I then had some problems hooking it up to my Network. In the end it worked with a static IP and switching on and off immediately when it got to the wlan0 error.
An update later and I am now listening to Hot 108 on Shoutcast.
Bit disappointed with the speaker but that has been pointed out already I think.
Thanks everybody at Chumby. I love my One.