Shipment to Russia?

[tllim]

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For shipment that able to deliver using Post/EMS route, such as non battery operated or small battery (PineTime and PinePhone), deliver to Russia is possible.

Dear friend tllim ,

Before a new batch of PinePhone appears and inevitably gets quickly sold out, please could you:

1) Provide a China Post Registered Mail / Hong Kong Post Registered Mail shipping methods to Russia?

These shipping methods are really reliable and perfectly trackable: I order hundreds of items from AliExpress - with batteries too and this year too (didn't feel any extra delays, by the way). 98% of cheap packages and 100% of expensive (>$50) packages arrive to me in a great condition within 2 months (usually 1 month). Russians are patient and used to these waiting times, so we aren't interested in your EU redistribution center if that means more expensive shipping - even if it's faster.

Also, these "normal" shipping methods are much better than a "courier" EMS: Russian EMS is just barely faster (i.e. 1 week faster) so is overpriced, and there's an extra hassle of meeting with a courier - who often tries to meet you during a work day, and if you can't leave your job at the moment - you will have to take a day off to travel to remote warehouse and lose money / time. Meanwhile, the "normal" shipping methods arrive to a local post office close to your house, where you can pick it at any convenient moment.

2) Provide a directly-by-card / no-Paypal payment methods (just like on AliExpress) ?

Paypal has an awful customer service in Russia (could lock your funds without reason for 6 months), high commission fees - and also, since 2015 Paypal started to ask a lot of really sensitive personal documents: i.e. scan of a government ID - if a Paypal Russia employee resells it to some crooks, they could get an expensive bank loan on your name! For this reason, many Russians abandoned Paypal and switched from Paypal-only eBay to AliExpress, where you could pay directly by your card without a Paypal intermediator.

P.S. Probably all or almost all Russians interested in your Pinephone are the software engineers, and there's a huge prominent community of software / firmware hackers on 4pda Russian website. So - if you could provide these two requests above to help us directly get a Pinephone from you without a hassle with greedy mail forwarders - we could give back a huge benefit to Pinephone software/firmware and ecosystem in general.

1. This limitation is on battery operated device such as PinePhone which only can be ship from Hong Kong. Please note that now is pandemic time, only bulk shipment can be arranged.
2. Pine Store currently explore on Stripe payment method.