I didn’t see an option anywhere for the credit card to do the conversion. I tried setting the transaction to Euros and going through checkout but they still forced the transaction into USD later on.
Anyways, I definitely can believe I missed something, paypal isn’t going to make it easy as they don’t want to lose that nice chunk of change. Maybe if someone else buys a Cirklon they can post the part where the selected it 
Ok I see what I did! Because I didn’t see an option earlier, I used my bank account instead of my credit card, and that doesn’t let you set where the conversion happens.
That being said, in my case if I had done credit card, paypal would have tacked an additional $43 dollars in fees to do the credit card transaction no matter what (I think this only happens for friends and family transactions.) So even if I had selected the conversion It wouldn’t have been a whole lot.
Regardless thanks for helping me through this rabbit hole @Prints
I’m not sure about that. I thought PayPal had to allow you the option of having your bank or credit card do the currency conversion instead. I’ve never seen this option not available, but I’ve always used Wells Fargo. It just always defaults to PayPal doing the currency conversion and must be changed manually every time.
I can see the option with my credit card and not my bank. Maybe its on a bank-by-bank basis, my bank is a local credit union.
I actually just Googled it and PayPal might not allow you to choose for your bank to do the conversion when paying with funds from a bank account during a transaction.
If I had funds in a bank account though, I’d just transfer them to my PayPal balance and I think you should be able to convert your PayPal balance to different currencies without additional fees. I’m pretty sure PayPal only charges additional fees to convert currencies during a transaction.
You are using a shop that resells that device in the UK, vs I am looking into the shop of Colin himself. Even if they have a direct deal with Colin, they have to do all the customs into the UK. I wonder that the price difference is that low for all the additional work they have to do.
I love it when people hate the producer for stuff that their own country decided to do.
It’s more complicated than that. You can only buy from Sequentix if you’re in the EU. Everybody else has to use Rubadub and prices are higher there because they don’t adjust their prices too often to adapt to the changes in the foreign exchange rate.
So, right now the reseller’s profit margin is increasing, and people have to be patient and hope the price will eventually come down if they want it to match the one being offered in Germany.
But no import tax with Rubadub.
But we can still order a base-model v2, right? It just might take a little bit to ship?
Barbara replies in a day. Drop her a line.
been waiting almost 2 years no update from Barbara, need to ask her next year if I will have shot at one as next sequencer.
Are you on the waiting list?
yes
I entered the list in 2020 and got to the top of the list December 2023. so your 2 years is totally in time!
Between entering the list and that mail last year there were no updates.
cool well in another year probably would buy a Cirklon v2 as next sequencer since that would be 3 years no gear purchase other than cables and the portable monitors.
did you get one? I know you were building your own sequencer so if you got a Cirklon I’d be interested in your thoughts on it, and how it’s influenced your own sequencer project.
All I know is that, when I went to the rubadub page, the non CVIO model was not an option. I didn’t try going back to refresh the view, or anything.
Hey! Due to the financial situation, I sadly did not. I would have loved to mess around with it, etc.
As I knew, that I would stay with my own hardware at the end, as it can do whatever I want now, and is able to do so even in the future, that would have been way too much money.
I guess it’s a bit of a double edged sword for a small company that’s not significantly upscaling production.
On one hand they have a potential guaranteed revenue stream for many years with a currently in demand product. On the other hand there’s so much development going on with new alternative products that may replace it. Not to mention the economy and new customers budgets vs price.
I’m 2-3 years away on the list, so reasonable chance other products will be released and I’ll end up declining the Cirklon option.
