Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 303. (Read 531298 times)

Damnnit... I paid UPS yesterday for fees owed, truck came today with the miner on it and -- driver said it was COD. Showed him the receipt and UPS conf# and doesn't matter 'cause the system still has not been updated for it...

Hopefully by time of the days-end pickup it will have cleared so I can get it today vs Monday.  Grrrrr..........

In the Midwest here so we get a lot of different temperatures.  So far I have had good luck to seems to be able to handle the summer heat which is good.  In my mining area I use air from outside push it through miners with big CFM fan's and exhaust the hot air. 

The S9 has done very good with the varying weather.   This week I could have high of low 90's F which is hotter then I like to the lows in the 60's F.   So it is handling  a variety of weather good.

I bet they're waiting for you to pay up - call them

Seems DHL wants to keep my B2

Friday, June 24, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
28   Clearance event   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   05:40   
1 Piece
Thursday, June 23, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
27   Clearance event   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   05:34   
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
26   Clearance event   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   05:22   
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
25   Clearance event   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   17:53   
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24   Processed for clearance at BRITISH COLUMBIA - CANADA   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   10:36   
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23   Arrived at Sort Facility BRITISH COLUMBIA - CANADA   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   10:22   
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22   Customs status updated   BRITISH COLUMBIA, BC - CANADA   06:36   
21   Transferred through SEATTLE - USA   SEATTLE, WA - USA   06:32   
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20   Departed Facility in CINCINNATI HUB - USA   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   05:29   
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19   Processed at CINCINNATI HUB - USA   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   02:09   
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18   Clearance processing complete at CINCINNATI HUB - USA   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   00:19   
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Monday, June 20, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
17   Shipment on hold   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   10:46   
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16   Arrived at Sort Facility CINCINNATI HUB - USA   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   10:39   
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Sunday, June 19, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
15   Customs status updated   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   09:50   
14   Customs status updated   CINCINNATI HUB, OH - USA   04:01   
13   Departed Facility in HONG KONG - HONG KONG   HONG KONG - HONG KONG   06:31   
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12   Processed at HONG KONG - HONG KONG   HONG KONG - HONG KONG   06:17   
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Saturday, June 18, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
11   Clearance processing complete at HONG KONG - HONG KONG   HONG KONG - HONG KONG   23:55   
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10   Arrived at Sort Facility HONG KONG - HONG KONG   HONG KONG - HONG KONG   23:41   
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9   Customs status updated   HONG KONG - HONG KONG   22:09   
8   Departed Facility in SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   21:06   
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7   Processed at SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   20:51   
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6   Clearance processing complete at SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   18:55   
5   Clearance event   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   06:16   
4   Arrived at Sort Facility SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   06:14   
3   Departed Facility in SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   01:13   
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2   Processed at SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   00:39   
1 Piece
Friday, June 17, 2016   Location   Time   Piece
1   Shipment picked up   SHENZHEN - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC   17:11   
1 Piece

My S9 Batch 2 has arrived...

So far so good... It's quite warm here atm.

I see the firmware for the S9 is now available for download - has anyone taken it apart & inspected the miner spoftware yet?

I must have bought the same package deal as you wobbzz

here is my itinerary

Incheon, Korea, Republic of   24/06/2016   8:13   Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China   24/06/2016   3:35   Departure Scan
Osaka, Japan   23/06/2016   10:33   Arrival Scan
Narita, Japan   23/06/2016   9:12   Departure Scan
23/06/2016   8:25   Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China   23/06/2016   3:07   Departure Scan
23/06/2016   0:56   Export Scan
22/06/2016   21:27   We updated the delivery information for your package. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Shenzhen, China   22/06/2016   21:27   Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery. / The package will be forwarded to a UPS facility in the destination city.
22/06/2016   17:33   Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery.
22/06/2016   14:08   We updated the delivery information for your package.
22/06/2016   1:00   Arrival Scan
22/06/2016   0:53   Departure Scan
Shenzhen, China   21/06/2016   23:29   Origin Scan
China   21/06/2016   0:09   Order Processed: Ready for UPS


seems the weather is nice in Japan this time of year so we will make two port visits there
then we will go back to Shenzen, because we forgot some of the other passengers, then off
we go to Korea and a quick visit to the DMZ and wave to some guards, lets take a guess at
what our next stop on the magical mystery tour will be.

All i wanted was a trip on the Rocky Mountaineer and a nice holiday in some cold location
in Newfoundland or similar, to be hosted by a caring and diligent host for a good 12 month
sabbatical

I must contact my travel agent and see what kind of trip this is.


All jokes aside, I have never had any of these issues getting miners sent to Australia,
with both UPS and DHL in the past, but this is really turning me off UPS

ROI for S9?

with BTC expected over 1k by year end... hopefully in no time!

how long does it take for you to ROI?

DHL is very much based on location.  Some people will love them others will run into issues.   I am on the very edge of my  DHL driver's route so not so great for me.  Any shipment that goes DHL I can count on him calling me end of day and asking if I can meet at X location or I won't get it that day.  Worst one was around a hour and half away.... I did not have time to meet him so went next day.

I can't find it the name of it on their site but if you don't have gurenteed delivery by them, they reserve the option to send last leg through usps vs driving it to those on edge of route like me.  So again some will work great, but if on edge of delivery they are a pain.

All my shipments from BMT and AliExpress to SG are with DHL - very fast, minimal paperwork and all web & SMS automated.

I just pay the Goods & Services Tax (GST) upon arrival to my doorsteps - about 7% of declared value.

From Amazon, I used Fedex and UPS before but too many paperwork and delays. Some UPS packages did not arrive!

Changed to DHL and no more issues.

i think dhl charges a lot more to ship it.

dhl      1 s7ln = 67.56
ups     1 s7ln = 82.08
fedex  1 s7ln = 54.51

well based on s7ln fees maybe I will give dhal a shot next time.

but I really think I will just let it drop to  under 1800 before I buy again

Has anyone tried DHL? I know UPS and FedEX are charging.

Ok call it Customs fees and brokerage fees, either way it's has been very rare I've had to pay them and since I've gotten at least 1 or 2 of pretty much all of Bitmains generations of batch-1 miners - they've been pricey.

@ Philipma, Ditto. Since April 2014 think this is only the 3-4th time I've had to pay duty. I could look back and see what time frames/orders I did when I got chargde but too lazy.. But kinda seems right.

As a person who has received invoices for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of miners Customs Duties have always been $0, unless the tariff code was entered wrong, however there have always been Customs Fee's and Brokerage fees, either with private brokers or UPS/Shipping company brokerages.

yeah could be  I did 2 batch 1's then 2 batch 2's   grand total of 8300(estimated) with the shipping.

I can not complain  with my orders since dec 2013  I have not paid much.

I will do a waiting game  and mine for now.

Could well be that US Customs is looking at it more as well. I got my both my b1 and 1st b3 without duty being charged and they both were more than this 3rd one. Getting 3 over $2k value each in ~1 month might raise a flag in tracking systems.

well I got the four running.

2 are running on the 4k 2x dps-2000 psu's

1 is running on an evga  1600 p2

1 is running on optimizer's newer designed  breakout board for the dps-1600, dps-2000 , dps-2500  psu's

so far all four are doing well with bigger gable fan.

Some thoughts you need  need  good air circulation if the area is warm.  the fans are on 90%   and we have the big 1600cfm gable fan.  I will bring a kill a watt meter for the gable fan.

we are running 60-65 pcb and 90-95 chip  on all boards.

the batch 1's are at freq 575
the batch 2's are at freq 600

ambient temps were 85f today in the barn

I am going back to setup that older s-7 batch one  and will add more fans as push behind the  intakes.

I still think these need a little more pop then the s-7s' in a psu.
I also hope to get really good fall numbers with these units.


And I will not buy another until they drop under 1800 shipped

FYI, I wrote to Bitmain about this and they claim that they haven't changed the shipping codes. The implication is that it's the dollar figure triggering the difference, or UPS has gotten gready.

The fact that every S9 was in excess of $2k while every S7 was under ($1.8k I think) leads me to think that we're in that gray area that Phil indicated where anything north of $2k might be interpreted as commercial and hence subject to duty.

I'm going to take this up with UPS, but I doubt it will change anything.

Bitmain needs to understand that the $2k threshold has an impact on the US market. They should return to pricing that's more sane.

They've been especially greedy this time. They probably would have made much more money if they had priced the S9 lower, assuming that they could fill the unit demand.