Thread: Living at the wrong side of the world...

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Here in Europe there are no halloween special fx shop for prop building.
And even when there is a store with soem Halloween related stuff they are going rise-high with the prices.
EXAMPLE: There is something called a bag of bones witch containes a skull some ribs a feet, two hands an a spine(piece). Overhere it will cost me 25 euro's that's about 33 dollars!. The big difference also the ones i see in the US contains abot 28 pieces the ones in europe only 10!

So i went to some online shop witch are located in the US.

I really want to use Pickaboos for my haunt, the dollar/euro currency is very good for me.
A pickaboo of $80 will be about €60,- so that's great.
What's not so great are the shipping costs witch are about $107,-.

Is there any way yo know to get it here for a few $ less? Otherwise i may have to migrate

My old neighbor is a mask maker and he sometimes had to mail them half-way around the world .. it got very expensive!
I make 99% of my Halloween things. There is more than just one way to activate an electrical prop. I usually mount more than one low-voltage switch (both hidden from the customers) so one time I use one and the next time the other which keeps returning patrons guessing??
Old heating thermostats have small glass tubes that have a small amount of mercury in them and small wires inside the tube to make contact when the tube is tipped (low voltage only!) so nobody will hear this switch making a sound as it activates the circuit.
I might have as many as 85 motion detector switches in my house to turn on lights, mostly, that is what they are made for. Some of these were only 5 to 6 dollars on sale, some were around 9-10. I never pay more than this for them and the ones in this price range seem to work fine for what I am trying to accomplish.

That's outrageous for shipping. It shouldn't be that much.
Unless you can get someone in the states to order it for you and ship it themselves.
I've shipped some small boxes to Poland and it cost roughly $27.00 to around $45.00.

indeed it is...

however it's not such a bad idea to let someone ship is for me.
Like you said it cost you onlu about $27 to $45.

Ill keep it in mind.
I have send a email to frightprops concerning the shipping costs an i the estimated shippingcost are correct or not.

So ill wait for it and otherwise ill need to do it another way.

but one way or another i am gonna have my picoboo

I just did a quick check on the USPS web site a medium flat rate box to europe is $47.95 holds upto 20 pounds.
Not sure on the weight of a picoboo but fas to be under 5 pounds i'd assume? could be even cheaper depending on the weight.

everything is soo costly these days.

Perhaps if you bought the picoboo directly from Fright Ideas (manufacturer) it might be cheaper shipping from Canada than from the US.

Here's a link to their website.

http://www.frightideas.com/

Heaton Party Supply (England) may also be an option for you for Halloween items when the Halloween Season approaches.

http://www.heatonparty.com/

If you find Canadian shipping rates are better (I have no clue) here's one that may he worthwhile looking into.

http://www.amazingpartystore.com/storefront/home.aspx



I had another UK company that sold Ghoulish Production Masks saved on my old computer at home. I'll try and find it to see if it might help.

I am sorry it costs so much for you to celebrate Halloween.

I wonder why other countries don't celebrate Halloween? Most American Halloween traditions and stories come from England, Germany, Romania, etc

Harry Potter, and the magical world of Hogwarts, is a British story.

But other countries have little to no TOTing, prop resources, etc. Puzzling.