Thanks Dee. I'm glad you like the design.
I'll tell you what, if you can manage to get say, 10 Hell Guitars to a dealer(s) in Finland, I'll give you one for free along with my thanks. Perhaps I'd even do that for 8 but I'd need to check the numbers.
I was initially thinking to sell online exclusively to the world but it is becoming increasingly clear that I will need to have dealers in Europe. There's just too much variance in customs and shipping costs are more, so sending single instruments is less cost effective. Also I need someone to provide after sales service. A rough estimate for Europe pricing would be about EUR 560 to cover extra shipping and customs duties. (Duties and fees in Europe are usually well over 20%! amazing...It's usually 5% here in Japan). That would be ballpark retail with dealers (and me) having some room for profits.
I actually just received a serious enquiry for a Bender from Portugal. Been receiving quite a few general enquiries as well from other EU countries. How would you like to be the Hell point man in Europe Dee? You're a man of persuasion and drive. Did you know the first 100 people at Microsoft are now at least millionaires? (At least this is what I was told by three fledgling software companies I once worked for. Before they went out of business that is...)