I just read the latest from the NI blog, and it appears they've modified the policy (again) to refer to it as a "restocking fee". The cancellation fee was present in yesterday's version. Of course, since they're charging immediately rather than waiting until shipment, I'm not sure how this doesn't amount to you being out of luck if they don't ship at all.

Rohan's post is quite slippery. First he mentions the "one-world shipping cost" of $50 as a way to make things easier for European customers who usually pay exorbitant amounts for shipping compared to US customers, thanks to labor issues and messier govt regs. How nice of him to expect Americans to subsidize the rest of the world even more than we already do. Anyway, he then attempts to justify this by saying it costs $36 to send a 2 lb package from NY to LA, which I knew was false as I've had things shipped nearly that distance for far less. Reading the DHL price list he referenced shows that the $36 rate is for next-day shipping, which is almost certainly not what Notion Ink is using.