Re: Bitmain looks like they're releasing a 15GH/s DASH miner called the AntMiner D3

Ups charging me 177 USD for 2 machines duty tax doesn't that seem a bit high wth...

Bitmain must have tripled the item value or UPS is price gouging.

DO NOT USE UPS for shipping. I repeat DO NOT USE UPS!!!

These fuckers charged me 163 USD for 2 machines just like you, and held it hostage until I paid them back. I will never ever use them again, ever! I advice people to choose other shippers other than UPS. They're not idiots, I bet they know what's in them, and they want to take advantage of it, as much as possible.

Where are you from ? What are your import fees ? Do you pay VAT ? That would be 5.5% total fees. Consider yourself fortunate wherever you live.

United States! I would have been happier with Fedex instead.

Like I said, consider yourself lucky. If you lived in EU, you'd have to pay import fees (some 2-4%) and then vat on top of that (approx.20%) and then some. The 1500$ miner would cost you 350-400$ more each. And you also got the first batch, so what the hell. Mine the s$$t out of it Wink

When you put it that way I'm not as bad as I thought. Vat is ridiculous though that's so high tax.

Quote from: Searing on September 19, 2017, 02:52:47 PM

FYI: UPS in USA had my D3 flagged as some exotic piece of scientific computer equipment .... about $96 bucks duties

This is when they called about a Soc Sec Number I asked price

I informed them that I should be (like other equip) be called a manufactured peripheral accessory to computer equipment as a classification

and offered to show here my miners with a laptop front end as a peripheral computer hardware

they dropped the price to $25 on the change in their 'what it is' number

just a heads up

Good to know they called me for social security before it even left China which I thought odd but let's see how it plays out my shipment comes tomorrow.