There is customs duty to add as well surely. VAT is to do with Bitmain. Below a certain price, no VAT or Duty is payable.
I buy lots of stuff from China and never pay any duty or VAT because I keep the cost and weight below certain amounts and perhaps because the vendors lie about the price I paid. Of course this is not possible with a minimum order quantity of 20. Perhaps Bitmain should team up with some of the vendors in Shenzhen that one can find on aliexpress.com
I buy lots of stuff from China and never pay any duty or VAT because I keep the cost and weight below certain amounts and perhaps because the vendors lie about the price I paid. Of course this is not possible with a minimum order quantity of 20. Perhaps Bitmain should team up with some of the vendors in Shenzhen that one can find on aliexpress.com
... You can't complain that Bitmain isn't illegally underdeclaring the value of goods, that's not a valid expectation. Pay your taxes.
I'm complaining that a DIY device is not being marketed and that the order quantity is ridiculous. There would be no power supply included and it would be up to the recipient to bolt on a heatsink and cooling. I've got plenty of heatsinks and cooling fans from defunct processors. With the cost of VAT and duty and the mark up of middle men, these are being marketed to the naive. How is that for ethical company behaviour ?
Additionally I pay all the taxes that I'm asked to pay so I resent your allegation that I'm not.
1) This is NOT a DIY device
2) Don't buy it if you don't want to
3) I resent that you're resenting that I resented that you were asking Bitmain to underdeclare the value of imported goods in order to avoid you having to pay taxes.
I'm perfectly aware that it is not a DIY device.
You're helping to market a device that will never make a cent for the purchasers.
I was asking no such thing. I just remarked upon how it is that I've never paid VAT or duty on items from China.
It's true, there was no request to lower stated cost for customs or taxation purposes from what I read.
Dogie, if your role in this thread is that of a company representative you should temper your words and act accordingly.
And to Tupsu's point, it doesn't matter where the added expense comes from; it the product costs too much (net to the consumer) then it's "No Sale". Don't create friction in the purchase process. This isn't Q4 2013, when even rational people tripped over themselves to throw money out the window.
