Rant: Buying From the USA — Ccbootcamp
May 12, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 6 Comments
I went to ccbootcamp to buy one of the written study guides that they produce. Last time I chose the electronic delivery, but it wasn’t quite so useful so wanted to purchase the physical book this time. The book is worth USD$129, which is expensive but probably ok, plus I would like to support the independent training companies. However, the shipping cost to the UK:
Holy crud! Eighty dollars!
Compare with, say, lulu.com
I recently bought Project California from lulu.com and paid USD4.50 for postage from USA.
There is a pretty big gap between USD$4.50 and USD$80.00.
I guess ccbootcamp doesn’t do a lot of overseas business. Maybe they could do more if they worked on this part of their business.
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Best as I can tell, they don’t do much business IN the US, either. They are the one UCE mailing list I can’t get off of (depsite the unsubscribe link I’ve availed myself of — 3 times), and get no response when I have forwarded their spam to an admin. I have a Inbox->Trash rule just for CCBootCamp messages.
Hint for Brad: you can’t market to network engineers USING spam, when all of them have had to spend time at some point in their careers FIGHTING spam. It demonstrates that you have either no respect for your target audience, or no clue what you’re doing. Either way, YOU LOSE.
Other than that, Brad, keep up the good work. I’m sure you’ll be eating IE and IPX’s lunch in short order.
Delivery price of “project california” book to Russia — $165.71. This is Standard delivery method. Yes, they have economy delivery plan for just $19,96 but without any warranty.
Greg -
I made the mistake of buying a CCIE written study guide through them and ended up returning it an cancelling my CCIE Lab class through them because there were so many errors to the point it was unreadable. Not impressed with their quality.
Which written did you purchase?
The R&S guide, it was about a year and a half ago.
Yes, international shipping is absurd!!! We do offer the book in ebook format to help out with that. We have also gone through and updated/fixed the errors that were in the book. I’m sorry “anon” above was unhappy with the book. Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions: brad@ccbootcamp.com
If you have a better shipping method, or have a UPS or FedEx or DHL account, we’ll be happy to use that for shipping as well. (We dont make money on our shipping)