Interested in the Elite Series options but I am presently residing in Prague, Cz. Any more thoughts on European distributors? Can Onefinity CNC’s be configured for 220-240V?
Finally, what is the max weight for the base model Elite Series, router included?
thanks for info,
Lobyk
Onefinity does not have any distributors in any country - they sell and ship.
Here is a link a search brought up regarding power in other countries:
As far as mass of Elite machines, I believe it would be similar to the regular machines based on the hardware differences highlighted. I do not think there are officially published specs yet as far as mass, but I did find this post from a European buyer of a Journeyman that may be helpful until you get other more definitive answers:
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Hey Lyle,
normally the power supply inside the Onefinity Controller is set to the correct voltage of the target country. I know of only one case where someone in South Africa got one once with the wrong voltage set.
Hi
I am from CZ and not far from Prague. I got my woodworker back in 21 and there was no problem with connecting to 240V, it was ready, just used my own power supply cable with correct plug. And as far as I know, no local distribution, you must buy direct from Canada. Just be careful with transport cost offered by Onefinity webshop. At that time the shipping to CZ was 1000 USD, so I did organize the transport myself in the end, much cheaper. But that may have been already fixed in the meantime.
Cheers, Josef
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Hey Josef,
still this user reports the problem is that when shipping to Czechia, the costs are 1600 USD, but it is 1000 USD less when shipping to Germany.
How did you organize your shipping? I think many people here in Europe would like to know.
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Hi,
if I read well the thread posted by TMToronto, the 1600 USD relates to transport cost to Bahrain, means Persian Gulf country between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Nothing to do with Central Europe.
And from what I remember seeing threads in the forum posted by guys from Europe, many countries are easy and price is normal (Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, UK…). But I am affraid that some of the countries of East Europe might be historically listed in different “destination area”, resulting in higher pricing. I do not understand such price difference, this should be sorted out by Onefinity and their forwarder.
I have simply ordered the transport myself, using UPS and they picked up the boxes in Canada. They did the customs clearance for me as well.
As I posted in a different thread, please be careful about statements on the invoice, especially the COO (Country of origin). If it says COO USA, you must pay the customs fee (I think around 2.7% on top). If it says COO Canada, no customs applied, as there is CETA agreement between Canada and EU.
In any case you must pay local VAT % on top of your purchasing price from Onefinity, and the % is different in every EU country (21% here in CZ).
Josef
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Hey Josef,
That was not the thread that I linked to. What I linked above was this one 
by the original poster
Thank you! I know people who will appreciate this information. Can you tell what you paid as shipping costs for what packages amount / weight?
The Onefinity CNC machine we received was made in Canada (Onefinity stated that every machine is sent from there) and we paid just the local german VAT, due to CETA free trade agreement, plus a small amount for the clearance process that DHL Express took care of (I reported this here, here and here).
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right, sorry @Aiph5u, I missed your link to the post from different thread. So it seems they have not fixed this issue in Onefinity webshop for thansport cost to Czech Republic. I cannot explain the reason.
I can only advise to @Lobyk to send an email to Onefinity to sort this out and if they are not ready to modify the shop price or offer reasonable shipping cost, then order without shipping and arrange it himself. I believe the number of orders coming from our area is still very small numbers compared to the rest, meaning this issue is not an important one for them.
As for the price of shipping itself that I paid, it was definitely 40-60% cheaper than the price offered by Onefinity on the webshop, but very similar to shipping cost to Germany and other EU countries offered by Onefinity.
Josef
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Hi guys, I am from Czech Republic as well, I am looking to buy one of this toys also. I have been buying some other machines from USA in past (planer, and table saw). I used this company for transfer http://www.shipexus.cz/, I think they are cheapest on the market especially if you choose boat transfer (takes couple weeks). I was roughly calculating costs and it seems to be around 300-400 USD. for one piece. Onefinity can send the package to one of their storage places I think they have like 3 in different states. And then they take of the rest and deliver to your doorstep.
Maybe we can order a palette transfer I guess 3 machines would fit a share even cheaper costs.
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