that it will actually get to me
You probably don’t use fed ex regularly. Thats the route my fed ex packages take to portland, oregon area
I think this is saying that this tariff bingo is a huge mess for DHL as well.
So i just had 30 faceplates and 30 pcbs delivered in march slow shipping. I thinj it was about. 40$.
At a 1000% increase in price and then still having to decide on what to do for graphics, its probably just not worth making them anymore. I sell 1-2 a week probably at a price that doesnt make the labor make sense beyond i like doing it. Not sure howd they move for 15-20$ . Hopefully trump and the chinese president put the rulers away, zip up their pants. And we can all move past this non sense since we obviously cant compete with a zerd world country for labor prices
This really isn’t comparable with JLCPCB or any of the other Chinese PCB fabricators. A few months ago I decided to build a clone of the Mountainking Megalith, so I whipped up a PCB and had JLCPCB fabricate it, which cost $3.71 including shipping. The entire build cost just under $30, including a UV printed enclosure. If I was stuck having to use DKRed, it would have cost me $42 for the PCBs alone. It would turn a $30 project into a $70 project, which for me would mean that there would be no project.
Apologies if my comment came off as rude. Your input was good valid input as a different possible route. The pricing is just so dang crazy comparably it makes things challenging.
I think at this point its just wait and see what the deliveries charge for brokerage. Paying double for boards isnt too bad honestly compared to alternatives.
I emailed them ten days ago and never heard back.
I use DK Red quite a bit, for my typically very small boards the only major drawback is the non support for plated slots, but there’s always OSH for that. I tried going direct to their primary fabricator in California for a quote once, DKR is actually a huge bargain in comparison!
