Shipping and customs. Pricing margins are already low on Schiit, so there isn't a lot of room to absorb all the costs of getting something made in California to Singapore, let alone the distributor getting their cut. I'm pretty sure this is precisely why Jason was so unenthusiastic about setting up regional distributors in the first place.
Surprised there isn't an Amazon.sg --- but I seem to remember there being some low/no cost shipping deal to Singapore. But there's still going to be customs.
And I also seem to remember a whole chapter on why Schiit is not very keen on using Amazon.
Yeah, was looking to get a Fulla 2 for work to replace the Geek Out 450 with the digital only volume control. Maybe I'll get a colleague to pick it up while in the US instead. (I can already imagine the "You want me to buy what???")
lol. Hey, get me some schiit in America, would you? haha.
But at least it's small schiit.
A friend of my wife's carried my HD600s to India for me. Not a huge box itself, but you know how Amazon pack things: she was horrified at the size of the carton that arrived at her house!
I think SLT Technologies is the distributor of schiit in South East Asia. Just bought Freya from them for roughly USD 826 delivered to my house. I think that's a decent price for Freya considering shipping, tax, etc. I live in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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