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Hi friends, I'm Kim, the CEO of Rumi. We're so excited to be one of the YC fellows, and we would love to answer any questions if you have any. Shoot! And buy sa

• 0xmohit 10y ago
  I thought that you would be shipping internationally. Appears to be limited to the US.
  • kimboleek 10y ago
    Great question. We do ship internationally for B2B orders but must contact us directly. Info@rumispice.com. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense for us to service customers directly to other countries unless we can find a distributor
• iamcreasy 10y ago
  Your startup warms my heart. Kudos.
• omegant 10y ago
  Hi, I recently tryed to help export saffron to Spain to an Afghan. He was introduced to me by an Afghan doctor who is volunteer at the same NGO as me. I contacted several Spanish saffron distributors. I think that this guy was afraid of the value of the shipments and was unable to make his mind around the conditions the distributor was setting (they seemed quite logical to me) It was a pitty cause I thought, as you do, that it could be a good way to help Afghanistan. One think that I learned talking to the spanish distributor (Spain is a mayor exporter of saffron but unable to keep the production up with the international demand, so it's importing from Morocco and Iran in large quantities) is that it's very easy to get scammed with the quality by the producers if they get greedy. Analisys take time and must be done on all batches. So this distributor delays the payment till the results confirm the quality of the shipment. How do you deal with quality control and scams in Afghanistan? Best of luck for your project!