Hi Jo,
Your pooled ordering sounds eminently sensible, it must minimise issues of long term inventory storage. I guess you may buy a couple extra with each batch to keep for emergency orders, which could presumably be sold at a premium to cover storage costs.
@nanocastro just mentioned your pH FeatherWing in the water test kit matrix discussion. I’d have bought one already, but postage to the UK is >1.5x the cost of the product itself, so perhaps we should have a chat elsewhere about other instruments you sell that may help our work at Amybo before I place an order…
Back on topic for this discussion: do you have any UK/EU distributors, or do you think some sort of Crowd Manufacturing hub here could help IO Rodeo? The idea would be that the hub would buy the unique components of your products from you in bulk, and source the other bits ‘locally’ then sell on assembled units or kits to the UK/EU markets with much more affordable and sustainable local shipping.