FOB is short for Free On Board or Freight On Board. In other words, who pays the freight from the factory to you?
We offer three options.
- F.O.B Origin: This term means that the customer is responsible for the international and domestic shipping on the product from the origin (China, Taiwan or some other origination point) to their dock.
- F.O.B Ship point: This means that the customer is responsible for the shipping from our (Focus) warehouse in Mesa, AZ to their dock.
- F.O.B Destination: This means that Focus is responsible for all shipping costs from the manufacturer to the end customer’s dock.
So what is the best option? At Focus Display Solutions we recommend option 2, FOB ship point. This allows the customer to ship from AZ to their location on either their UPS, Fed Ex account or on the focus UPS account.
Our character and static LCD display modules are not as large as TFT liquid crystal displays.
Segment displays (static displays or glass displays), 7 (seven) segment, 14 (fourteen) segment and 16 (sixteen) segments are smaller and less expensive to ship then Alphanumeric LCD displays (aka: Character LCD’s).
The smaller character displays such as 8×1 LCD display, 8×2 LCD display, 16×1 LCD display, 16×2 LCD display, 16×4 LCD display are less expensive to ship than the 20×2 LCD display, 20×4 LCD display, 24×2 LCD display, 40×1 LCD display, 40×2 LCD display, 40×4 LCD display.