Comments on: Review the ELECFREAKS Wukong2040: Raspberry Pi Pico Expansion Board https://peppe8o.com/elecfreaks-wukong2040-raspberry-pi-pico-expansion-board/ Raspberry PI, Arduino and Electronics made simple Sat, 02 Sep 2023 17:14:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: evita https://peppe8o.com/elecfreaks-wukong2040-raspberry-pi-pico-expansion-board/#comment-20937 Tue, 09 May 2023 07:25:35 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=9691#comment-20937 In reply to Wolf.

Hi, here is a member of ELECFREAKS Official Brand Store, We support shipping without a fee if the order is higher than 10 USD. If you want to send it with DHL, you need to add a fee. It is very normal for the policy of the brand store. Besides, you don’t need to pay VAT normally if the package was sent not by DHL. Here is a wiki of Wukong 2040 breakout board. You can study it here http://wiki.elecfreaks.com/en/pico/extension-module/wukong2040-pico

]]> By: Wolf https://peppe8o.com/elecfreaks-wukong2040-raspberry-pi-pico-expansion-board/#comment-20932 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:54:23 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=9691#comment-20932 well,
the specs might be good and would be a reason to buy but 2 big downsides:
#1: 10$ shipping fee is ridicoulos overpriced for an even slow economy shipping aliexpress beats every time I order for 10$
#2: you will also have to deal with import customs and fees which are even worse cause dhl will take high fees on top cause usually dhl delivers here on the last mile from china. 5€ for dhl and on all of that the VAT would end in a 25$ + 19% VAT = 30$ mess no one would have expected.

The shop does not even have a faq nor explains anything about the duties.

At the end: yes, I would only purchase it via aliexpress for that 10$ price and that is it. Meanwhile I have now bought a cheaper solution for 5$ as expansion board (incl. shipping and VAT) with a few sensors and buttons only, now 18650 I do not really need.

They are killing their product with such a stupid fooling idea to make the money with shipping fees and let the customer deal with custom fees and VAT and all other mess. Not really convenient experience to buy from their store cause I had been tempted to buy that product and did a registration but at the final point I saw $$$ warning signs regarding customs and dhl fees.

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