From the FAQ:
Blackbox is a shipping company for independent artists. We take care of everything that happens after your customers click the “buy” button… the checkout process, credit card processing, customer service, and the worst part, the actual shipping. We’ll even pay your sales taxes for you.
Great, zanny website and the concept seems very interesting. Was eager to try it out and order the presskit, but then I got to the end and the shipping cost is 40$ (to Portugal). Either you guys are shipping an anvil or something is at odds with your goal of shipping stuff at low cost.
an interesting approach. They seem to be trying to replace Shopify (they handle the checkout experience); Stripe (the payment processing seems to be included if I understood correctly); Pakible/Arka (includes a box/insert); as well as the fulfillment company to store your inventory and dispatch it.
This approach allows them to try a very different pricing model of "about $5 plus 5% retail price", so taking some of the margin from the price of the item as part of the shipping costs.
It'll be interesting to see how it works out.
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@_jacksmith that five percent seems awfully high if there is no cap
I love the design of the site and the morphing SVG's on hover on the team page! The GIF is incredible. I guess they figured out how to ship cards against humanity proficiently and that model shaped a business! Fantastic and inspiring.
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