Comments on: One Laptop Per Child stings you with shipping http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/13/one-laptop-per-child-stings-you-with-shipping/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:27:17 -0500 hourly 1 By: Chris Taylor http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/13/one-laptop-per-child-stings-you-with-shipping/comment-page-1/#comment-524623 Chris Taylor Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:03:26 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/13/one-laptop-per-child-stings-you-with-shipping/#comment-524623 Call me weird but I think $25 for shipping is pretty damned cheap. $12 to ship mine and $12 to ship the kids machine? not bad. My problem is the price. If I was rich sure fine but I am not I NEED something for that money. Something more valuable that what I can get elsewhere. I can buy a pretty nice 15" screen dvd burning gig ram laptop with 100 gig HD for $350 At $99 a pop $200 for a pair its worth it to me. I get a neat new toy to mess with and I get to help out some kid somwehere in the world at a price I can afford. I can not afford that $350 laptop how am I going to afford $200 times 2 for this machine? If they can get it down to the original $99 target price and then offer a 2for1 (buy 2 get one) then I would be all over it. I would FIND the money somehow. Call me weird but I think $25 for shipping is pretty damned cheap. $12 to ship mine and $12 to ship the kids machine? not bad.

My problem is the price. If I was rich sure fine but I am not I NEED something for that money. Something more valuable that what I can get elsewhere. I can buy a pretty nice 15″ screen dvd burning gig ram laptop with 100 gig HD for $350

At $99 a pop $200 for a pair its worth it to me. I get a neat new toy to mess with and I get to help out some kid somwehere in the world at a price I can afford.

I can not afford that $350 laptop how am I going to afford $200 times 2 for this machine?

If they can get it down to the original $99 target price and then offer a 2for1 (buy 2 get one) then I would be all over it. I would FIND the money somehow.

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