How group buy operates
It is a method used world wide, where people from forum decide to organize a group buy for something...the main idea is to reduce price increasing the quantity of orders.
Usually people does that to boards, or pcboards.
Manufacturers use to reduce price depending the quantity you order...when you order 25 board the price is bigger than when you order 100 boards... and so on in a nice negative progression where price goes dropping.
We usually have a manager that has the charge to collect and organize orders, to have names and adresses from the guys that order boards...he collect and organize these orders and then offer a paypall account (nick name from a paypall acount..or adress from a paypall account) to receive money from the ones have posted orders and had collected they real names and complete adress as town, street, house or appartment number, zip code, email and telephone numbers.
Then, after collect all paypall transference money, the group buy manager order boards to the manufacturer he have already selected while he was asking quotation of price to know, aproximatelly, how would be the cost to order some ammount of boards..so..it is important that people post their orders when they really want to go ahead..... because people giving up, quiting, will reduce the quantity and this may increase price and will be bad to everybody.
As soon as group buy manager have received the paypall from everybody, he order boards from manufacturer and this takes some time to receive boards already produce in the group buy manager adress... then group buy manager put boards inside envelopes and send them to the postal system for delivery to your adress... all this process usually spend some good time... 30 to 40 days the group buy use to be opened collecting orders till reach the minimum amount needed to have good price... then some days to receive paypall and confirm payment..then 15 days to order and receive boards (depends on manufacturer) a couple of days to ship them and more 15 days to boards travel to the destination adress.
Group buy manager is always selected in our community because decent and honest.... someone we can trust.
Paypall is an international money transference system that is connected to your credit card or bank account.... the money transference is on line and happens instantaneously.... type paypall in your google search and you will have instructions how to proceed.... they make tests to be sure system is operating fine and to check your data, adress and bank account response...the registration there must be made as soon as you enter group buy placing orders.... you will have a couple of days till we gonna ask you to make money transference to the group buy manager.
I was in several group buys...and they all worked fine without failures..sometimes one board is lost somewhere because of postal system..but this is a rarity and we use to ship having ensurance...shipment cost is included in your price.... so...your price will be board price multiplied by the quantity you order plus the shipment price to your country....that use to be around 11 USD average..
More than 200 orders where shipped, around 400 boards are distributed around our big world..all Dx Corporation (Union of happy audiophiles..the good ones are with us) units assembled having satisfied diy customers..no one have complained till this day.
regards,
Carlos