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I do ship to Canada, but unfortunately the (auto-calculated by Shopify/UPS/DHL/USPS) international shipping prices are quite high (I've seen about $30 to Canada

I do ship to Canada, but unfortunately the (auto-calculated by Shopify/UPS/DHL/USPS) international shipping prices are quite high (I've seen about $30 to Canada and $50 to Germany in the past). Plus in some countries the purchaser ends up having to pay duties, so check your local laws. A way somewhat around this is to buy from me on eBay since they take care of the shipping and duties, and have lower shipping costs: https://www.ebay.com/usr/oaksnowconsultingllc https://www.ebay.com/usr/oaksnowconsultingllc The downside is packages through eBay International Shipping tend to take like a month whereas UPS ships packages in less than a week pretty much anywhere. I sold one on os9.shop to Germany last month that got to Germany in 3 days and to the person's door in 5. My prices on os9.shop are also lower to begin with because I don't have any eBay fees. The equivalent package on os9.shop to the eBay packages is the Average Condition bundles. US customers should definitely buy at https://os9.shop https://os9.shop since it's the same stuff and the prices are lower and the shipping is the same.

amatecha 2y ago
RE: shipping to Canada: use USPS. Using Fedex or UPS will incur gigantic "brokerage fees" which you are not charged when using USPS + Canada Post. We're talking like $30+ on a $100 package, and that's upon arrival to your door, after you already paid $20-30 shipping. I got a plexiglass trophy from an event at my work and it cost me $25 to receive it because they used UPS to ship it.
- WoodenChair 2y ago
  When customers are checking out they have the option to choose USPS, UPS, etc. I've seen prices to Canada be more for USPS than UPS. Shopify handles most of this. I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc.
  - amatecha 2y ago
    Oh, perfect! I didn't realize there was a choice during checkout. I can imagine the initial price is more, but it will be less in total once the package arrives to the door. My "favorite" thing about UPS is they like to leave a COD invoice, when they were _supposed_ to collect the fee from you before releasing the package -- but that takes too long so they just leave an invoice. Except you can't just go online and pay it - there's no facility to do this on their website (you can find countless Reddit threads of people raging about this). I had to pay by phone, which is beyond ridiculous in this day and age.
  - TMWNN 2y ago
    >I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc. What amatecha said about brokerage fees is true, but only if you use international ground (UPS Standard, and its FedEx equivalent). Any "UPS Worldwide" service is by air, and avoids brokerage fees. eBay International Shipping is, as you said, the best option for buyer and seller as long as the buyer is willing to wait and use eBay to buy. Another option is Pirate Ship's Simple Export Rate. Also slow, but significantly cheaper than UPS and even USPS.
    - amatecha 2y ago
      Hrm, the UPS C.O.D. Invoice I have here on my phone says it was delivered via air. I don't know what service method was used though as that's not mentioned, but it says "Port of Entry: 1821 - Vancouver Air". /shrug
7thaccount 2y ago
Can you do like a LAN party thing with two of them and play some classic games in co-op that way? Can you legally get these old games somewhere or is it all abandonware?
- WoodenChair 2y ago
  They all have Ethernet ports. So, yes you can hook them up to a wired router and play co-op. The vast majority of games are either going to be abandonware or buying old jewel cases on eBay.
  - 7thaccount 2y ago
    Thanks! Does anyone know how accessing the internet works on something so old? I mean, I used computers far older than this back in my youth, but the web browsers weren't ancient back then. I guess I'm trying to say that a 25 year old browser might not work with most modern web pages. Is that right?
    - zoky 2y ago
      Your best bet is probably iCab, which had its last OS 9 release in 2008. Still pretty old, but you’ll at least have some relatively modern support for stuff like CSS. I used it on OS 9 at the time and it worked pretty well then.
    - WoodenChair 2y ago
      Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barely load anything. There are still some sites that are designed to work on these old machines like frogfind.com
      - 7thaccount 2y ago
        No prob. I guess you just get software on there with CD-ROM & USB? Maybe there is an adapter for the FireWire? Also...what kind of programming language stuff is pre-loaded? I'm not familiar with Macs, but I'm guessing if it's based on BSD than there is a C compiler, Bash, Awk...that kind of stuff? Is Objective C or some kind of scripting language easy to get to?

amatecha 2y ago

RE: shipping to Canada: use USPS. Using Fedex or UPS will incur gigantic "brokerage fees" which you are not charged when using USPS + Canada Post. We're talking like $30+ on a $100 package, and that's upon arrival to your door, after you already paid $20-30 shipping. I got a plexiglass trophy from an event at my work and it cost me $25 to receive it because they used UPS to ship it.

WoodenChair 2y ago
When customers are checking out they have the option to choose USPS, UPS, etc. I've seen prices to Canada be more for USPS than UPS. Shopify handles most of this. I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc.
- amatecha 2y ago
  Oh, perfect! I didn't realize there was a choice during checkout. I can imagine the initial price is more, but it will be less in total once the package arrives to the door. My "favorite" thing about UPS is they like to leave a COD invoice, when they were _supposed_ to collect the fee from you before releasing the package -- but that takes too long so they just leave an invoice. Except you can't just go online and pay it - there's no facility to do this on their website (you can find countless Reddit threads of people raging about this). I had to pay by phone, which is beyond ridiculous in this day and age.
- TMWNN 2y ago
  >I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc. What amatecha said about brokerage fees is true, but only if you use international ground (UPS Standard, and its FedEx equivalent). Any "UPS Worldwide" service is by air, and avoids brokerage fees. eBay International Shipping is, as you said, the best option for buyer and seller as long as the buyer is willing to wait and use eBay to buy. Another option is Pirate Ship's Simple Export Rate. Also slow, but significantly cheaper than UPS and even USPS.
  - amatecha 2y ago
    Hrm, the UPS C.O.D. Invoice I have here on my phone says it was delivered via air. I don't know what service method was used though as that's not mentioned, but it says "Port of Entry: 1821 - Vancouver Air". /shrug

7thaccount 2y ago

Can you do like a LAN party thing with two of them and play some classic games in co-op that way? Can you legally get these old games somewhere or is it all abandonware?

WoodenChair 2y ago
They all have Ethernet ports. So, yes you can hook them up to a wired router and play co-op. The vast majority of games are either going to be abandonware or buying old jewel cases on eBay.
- 7thaccount 2y ago
  Thanks! Does anyone know how accessing the internet works on something so old? I mean, I used computers far older than this back in my youth, but the web browsers weren't ancient back then. I guess I'm trying to say that a 25 year old browser might not work with most modern web pages. Is that right?
  - zoky 2y ago
    Your best bet is probably iCab, which had its last OS 9 release in 2008. Still pretty old, but you’ll at least have some relatively modern support for stuff like CSS. I used it on OS 9 at the time and it worked pretty well then.
  - WoodenChair 2y ago
    Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barely load anything. There are still some sites that are designed to work on these old machines like frogfind.com
    - 7thaccount 2y ago
      No prob. I guess you just get software on there with CD-ROM & USB? Maybe there is an adapter for the FireWire? Also...what kind of programming language stuff is pre-loaded? I'm not familiar with Macs, but I'm guessing if it's based on BSD than there is a C compiler, Bash, Awk...that kind of stuff? Is Objective C or some kind of scripting language easy to get to?