[clug] OLPC laptops

[Karun Dambiec]

Most USA businesses will not ship outside USA for unknown reasons.

You can use vpost australia or similiar.
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:38:19 +1000, "Michael Cohen" <scudette at gmail.com>
said:
> David,
>   I wonder why they do that - if the project is really a philanthropic
> endeavor they wouldn't care where they ship the laptops to.  Usually
> this kind of restricted shipping is the domain of market manipulating
> monopolies like the MPIAA or the RIAA. Do you feel discriminated
> against already because you are not American?
> 
> Michael.
> 
> On Nov 22, 2007 8:42 AM, David Tulloh <david at tulloh.id.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As I'm sure most of you are aware the OLPC project is currently running
> > a program where you can give a laptop to an unknown child and purchase
> > one for yourself.
> > This is something I've been interested in since they announced it,
> > unfortunately the not-so-fine print states that they will only ship to
> > north american addresses.  The only solution to this seems to be some
> > sort of reshipping service.
> >
> > Has anyone else been following this offer?  Has anyone looked into what
> > would be involved to have such laptops reshipped?
> >
> > For more details: _www.laptopgiving.org_
> > <http://link.laptopgiving.org/u.d?cmRGsuigNuI_Q6j9-=41>
> >
> >
> > David
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