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This is something a bit different for Rigu to be stocking, and something pretty different in the world of tripods and tripod alternatives too.

I was sitting around thinking, “wouldn’t it be cool if someone made a bean bag with a camera mount, then I wouldn’t need a bulky tripod, I could just put the bag down anywhere.” It turns out that someone had already thought the same thing, so they made The Pod, an innovative hard-wearing bean bag with a camera mount on it. There are a few different options available depending on your gear setup so check out each product (red/green/silver/black) to see which is best for you.

Rigu is currently the only distributor in the UK so I am very proud to be bringing this practical device to British and European photographers.

Rigu sends out packages every weekday at our local Post Office in the Lake District, usually achieving same-day dispatch on orders placed before 4pm (sometimes up to 4:30pm) and this will not change during the festive period as large numbers of orders are placed at the store.

As you can see from the lists below we are now approaching the Royal Mail’s cutoff dates for Christmas packages but there is still a couple of weeks left for people in the UK to place their orders, all the way up to December 23rd for Special Delivery orders.

Royal Mail cutoff dates for international mail (all Airmail, which is the standard Rigu service):

Thursday 5 December Australia

Friday 6 December Africa, Caribbean, Central & South America, Middle East

Monday 9 December Cyprus, Eastern Europe

Tuesday 10 December Canada, France, Greece, Poland

Friday 13 December USA

Saturday 14 December Western Europe (excluding France, Greece, Poland)

Royal Mail cutoff dates for UK mail:

Wednesday 18 December 2nd Class and Royal Mail Signed For™

Friday 20 December 1st Class and Royal Mail Signed For™

Monday 23 December Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed™

Rigu likes PayPal, they’re a payment provider that deal with millions of transactions every day, and some of those transactions come through Rigu. That said, one of the top complaints/suggestions that I receive is from people that would like to see options other than PayPal when placing an order on Rigu, people that want to order directly with their credit card.

Today, thanks to the innovative payment processor Stripe that is now an option at Rigu, it’s something that I’ve been trying to achieve for a few months, and I will be hopefully adding other options in the future. Stripe have only just launched in the UK and Rigu is proud to be one of the first companies using their system. Currently in the UK stripe accept payments from MasterCard and Visa cards, with American Express being added soon.

Taking payments directly on the site also represents a challenge in terms of protecting your data. Rigu will not see your credit card number, I don’t want to have that information, but when you type in your card digits on Rigu that means we do pass that information on to Stripe, and so we have had to put in extra security measures to protect you (and us) from hackers. This is completely non-intrusive and will not effect the way that you use the site, so it’s just like before, but safer!