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Another manufacturer for BBB

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Just seen Embest (a Farnell company ) is producing their own clone of the  BeagleBone Black

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  • Looks like a price increase is happening:

     

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user/64166

     

    Since it seems to be aimed at getting more manufacturers involved in order to increase supply, I'm surprised that e14 isn't using the embest one for this.

     

    Still, a price increase is dubious at best. The BBB is already more expensive than the more capable OLinuXino-LIME and it won't take much to push it into head to head competition with e14's RIoT board.

  • in reply to Former Member

    The shipping rorts used by some suppliers make buying from them impossible to justify.

     

    Thankfully even some of the US based ones have stopped using Fed-Ex as their only option, and the USPS is very efficient (well compared to ours which take longer to travel less distance).

     

    Seeedstudio generally ships via HonKong Post (for free), which can strike problems with customs.

    Thankfully I have never had delays, so both the supplier and my address must be clean as far as customs is concerned. ......image

     

    Also to our credit, we only pay duty if the GST and duty will exceed NZ$50 which means the declared value of the item (inc freight) needs to be $NZ334 or more.

     

    However digging around the NZ element14 site using a previous code resulted in this

    Fullscreen contentimage_176597.html Download 
    <html><head><title>Jive SBS</title></head>
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<b>Error</b><br><font size="-1">
An general error occurred while processing your request.
</font></font></body></html>

     

     

    This makes it NZ$81.63 v $84.14 ( from Seeedstudio (depending on the exchange rate).

    Neither of them have it, so both are probably just as fast.

     

    Iain

    At that rate you could buy two, send them to me and I'll send you a free gift.  ... think early Christmas present.image

     

    Mark

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  • in reply to Former Member

    The shipping rorts used by some suppliers make buying from them impossible to justify.

     

    Thankfully even some of the US based ones have stopped using Fed-Ex as their only option, and the USPS is very efficient (well compared to ours which take longer to travel less distance).

     

    Seeedstudio generally ships via HonKong Post (for free), which can strike problems with customs.

    Thankfully I have never had delays, so both the supplier and my address must be clean as far as customs is concerned. ......image

     

    Also to our credit, we only pay duty if the GST and duty will exceed NZ$50 which means the declared value of the item (inc freight) needs to be $NZ334 or more.

     

    However digging around the NZ element14 site using a previous code resulted in this

    Fullscreen contentimage_176597.html Download 
    <html><head><title>Jive SBS</title></head>
<body><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<b>Error</b><br><font size="-1">
An general error occurred while processing your request.
</font></font></body></html>

     

     

    This makes it NZ$81.63 v $84.14 ( from Seeedstudio (depending on the exchange rate).

    Neither of them have it, so both are probably just as fast.

     

    Iain

    At that rate you could buy two, send them to me and I'll send you a free gift.  ... think early Christmas present.image

     

    Mark

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