Guess what customs just cleared???

[Jackster]

If you enjoy fresh coffee and variety it makes sense, of course there's also a substantial dollar benefit.

Green beans ordered for my first go at roasting. This may be the beginning of the end of travelling to my local roaster...
If you need me, I shall be in the roasting section of the forum.

[artman]

It usually takes 7 days. Once it took a bit longer but that was Christmas shenanigans. Also once it sat in Perth for a few days.

Excellent value regardless getting the 18kg box for around $18!

Cheers

[noonar]

Thanks 338, yes I am in Perth and have previous experience with Fastway. Mortal coil is not far from- much ado about nothing. :-)

[338]

Ordered 5kilos from beanbay on Jan 23. The online Fastway tracker says the parcel is in Geelong, as of Jan 23, no other updates - maybe Fastway are using the same route Andy used to get the beans in to Australia? :-) Waiting patiently (mostly).

Noonar, not sure where 'mortail coil' is but if you are in WA that is business as usual for Fastway, rare to get updates till it hits Perth. If you are somewhere where you would expect delivery in a week just ring Fastway (or email but they take a while to respond), they have a secondary in house system which will hopefully tell you where it is.

[noonar]

Ordered 5kilos from beanbay on Jan 23. The online Fastway tracker says the parcel is in Geelong, as of Jan 23, no other updates - maybe Fastway are using the same route Andy used to get the beans in to Australia? :-) Waiting patiently (mostly).

[Andy]

We also have lots of customers that "coffee pool" in the office or with friends and family. They order 5kg of roasted to combine freight and then share it around when it gets there.

[Yelta]

Maybe I need to get a corretto going, and 5kg of green.

If you enjoy fresh coffee and variety it makes sense, of course there's also a substantial dollar benefit.

[338]

Jackster, maybe add a kilo of something else roasted to your order? I assume you buy from a local roaster, Beanbay is a few dollars cheaper than local for me per kilo, spreads the freight costs and you try something different for a couple of weeks. (Of course a couple of kilos may be way outside your usage patterns)

[Jackster]

That's fine.
I wasn't looking at the bigger picture of customers purchasing 10kg or (way) more.
I was only thinking of the customers (like me) that are deciding on 500g preroasted or 1kg.
Maybe I need to get a corretto going, and 5kg of green.
Thanks for your replies and consideration.

[Yelta]

Best bet is to add what you want, go through to the checkout and see what freight options you are offered, add to the basket or remove items to see what works best. As long as you don't press [confirm] at the end the order won't be placed and you can go back and forward to fiddle.

Excellent advice, exactly what I do.

[Andy]

It's really hard to discuss this on the site as people get different options depending on where they are too and whatever I answer online just creates confusion for others.

Jackster 20km from Perth CBD gets shown different freight options to Yelta who is 100km from the next electric light pole

In both cases, a 500g shipment will be offered as an Express Post satchel and one of the two will also get shown a small Fastway satchel.

17.5kg is the sweet spot in slow freight to Perth if you are in a Fastway area, about $1/kg is amazing value but can take 7-10 days, sometimes longer.

20kg is the best bang per buck for eParcel everywhere and 40kg is slightly better again as the 2nd parcel has a lower starting price and the same per kilo price.

I could go on for hours but at the end of the day, BeanBay does things that no human could possibly remember or do including live lookups of freight areas, zones and limits.

Best bet is to add what you want, go through to the checkout and see what freight options you are offered, add to the basket or remove items to see what works best. As long as you don't press [confirm] at the end the order won't be placed and you can go back and forward to fiddle.

[Jackster]

Fair enough.
I shall resume the quiet position on the couch.

[Yelta]

When I place an order, which isn't often, I do the weight V freight calcs on BeanBay and finish up ordering around 20 kg to get the most economical freight rate.

When it comes to something special like the Yemen, if I can afford to pay $35.50 a kg for green beans a few extra dollars in freight is neither here nor there.

Bit of a case of cant see the forest for the tree's.

[Andy]

Is this making sense or crazy talk..

Mostly crazy talk. Can you imagine how many emails I would get if we packed less in a bag. I know it makes sense but the grief wouldn't be worth it.

Packaging sizes are carefully made to suit the packaging (taken 12 years of tweaks to get them right) add to that BeanBay calculates the weight, and volume along with the destination of most items. Just because something weighs 500g doesn't mean it will fit in a 500g satchel. It's so complicated but BeanBay gets it right!

[WhatEverBeansNecessary]

Andy, I know I'll get asked...... but does the Qishr have caffeine in it?

I wondered the same thing. Did a google and the answer is yes it certainly does. About the same as black tea.