looking for a hivi b3s in the netherlands.. anybody?

[matjans]

hi,

I'm planning on building a pair of John Krutke's hivi b3s fullrangers and now i'm looking for a dealer in the netherlands (or europe, for that matter) who sells hivi b3s drivers. I've seen them om partsexpress for ~$10. The only dealer I could find was www.spectrumaudio who sells them for ~EUR20.

Does anybody know another shop?

Thanks in advance,

matjans

 

[soongsc]

Web ordering is do convenient these days.

 

[earsandeyes]

I found the same suppliers. What can go wrong with ordering from the states. I don't have the impression that the germans are willing to adapt there price policy.

E&E

 

[matjans]

for the netherlands ppartsexpress has a minimum order of $50, plus shipping & handling and on top of that you'll probably have to pay imports too.

which would make it cheaper to get it at spectrumaudio but then again, paying EUR20 for a driver someone else sells for ~$9, ,well that's just plain stupid.

 

[earsandeyes]

utrecht group buy?

We can try an Utrecht group buy.
Have to work out wether that is cheaper
Sofar I have not paid duties over imports under 100 USD

E&E

 

[Bergrans]

I'm in

Utrecht group buy! I'm in!

Martin

 

[matjans]

ok, betor! I can handle the group buy if it doesn't get too large...
Let's say this one is only for people from Utrecht!

my wishlist:

2x Hivi B3s at $9,57 each.

That;s it!

 

[Bas Horneman]

Utrecht group buy! I'm in!

Think BIG think Dutch groupbuy!?

Please let me know if you are willing to extend this groupbuy to the Netherlands. I will pay obviously for the shipping within the Netherlands.

2 please.

 

[matjans]

Nah, too much trouble and the remailing would make it pretty unattractive, price-wise.
That, and the atm just said I had the astonishing amount of EUR 1 ready for me.

When the order is worth >EUR22, you have to pay BTW & douanerechten.

 

[Bas Horneman]

Ok..duidelijk.

Cheers,
Bas

 

[earsandeyes]

I always think big!

Reason to keep it to one city is evasion of taxes etc.
I for myself would be interested in hivi b3s (2), and perhaps two ribbon tweeters.(then I am over 100USD) and or 2 b3s and 2 tangbands, ending up just under the 50USD Matjans was mentioning.

I am willing to coordinate, but don't want the taxhasle!

Other way is to use my BV, with taxnumbers etc but then I doubt whether it would be cheaper then following the German route.

Regards,

E&E

 

[earsandeyes]

oops just crossed

Just crossed some posts here.

Would be interesting to now the location of the ATM that would issue the 1 Euro?

E&E

 

[Bas Horneman]

Just an interesting fact...showing that the HIVI driver has not been marked up as much as the the MCM 55-1870 ..

The MCM driver is 12,95 us$ in the US and €57 at spectrumaudio!!!

 

[Bas Horneman]

By the way...where can I have a look at John Krutke's hivi b3s fullrangers plans?

 

[matjans]

forget it.

partsexpress only sends via UPS, I just checked shipping & handling for 10x hivi b3s to the netherlands: $83. That, plus 19%btw makes it unfeasable for me. i'm out (and obviously won't handle the mini groupbuy)

B3S: http://www.zaphaudio.com it's #4 in the link list