Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 307. (Read 531168 times)

I have personally purchased and have been using 30 of the Bitmain PSUs with no issues so far.  The rest of my miners have been on rental PSUs.  I would say that over the time of 9 months is a very good track record.

Yeah, but if you try to run Avalon6 version of cgminer on a Bitmain product it's not going to work. Each miner has its own driver for cgminer core, and Bitmain's code hasn't really been that good in about two years. The hardware doesn't care what it's hashing as long as the data is fed in in the right format. Pool issues, vardiff issues, shitcoin issues, all that is software.

S5 are known to lock itself when mining shitcoins on nicehash. Same apply to S7s but they only loose one hashing board untill soft reboot. I don't think this is cgminer problem as A6 also use cgminer but don't have such bug

I can not complain as I have order s-1's s-3's s-5's s-7's and even 2 s9's and never paid a tax as of now.

 So even if it is 3% that would be about 123 usd.
If it is .3%  that would be 12.30 usd.

I was not complaining so much as I was  wondering what I would pay.


@ alienesb

  yeah  it was brooklyn speak   which is talking like you feel at that exact moment. 

Now that 12 hours have past lets face it I will buy more gear.

Hail Europe, where you get as*fisted at any given opportunity.

Pretty unlikely to be hardware-related, if it was on the S5. BM1384 have no problem working with vardiff 1.

nope, it is stolen and renamed cgminer

this problem is known since S5 and i believe it is hardware related

Yes they are very lucky i am paying 20% sometime and sometime around 26%

You guys should be happy the tax rates are so low! I'm paying a default 25% import tax on my miners aka 520$, on top of the 2085$ miner price (Norway).

Hahaha, come on this is a lie! Wait until the next super miner comes out and you'll be there on day one.

Bitmain uses his own BMminer on this device.
The result is that the miner is unable to mine coins with lower difficulty.
Also renting out on Nicehash or Westhash doesn't work. All share get rejected, lots of hardware errors and temperature rises a LOT

It does work perfectly on bitcoin pools.
Why Bitmain, Why didn't you just use CGminer instead of your own branded miner that clearly isn't up to the task (yet)

Status update:

After 5 days of talking with Quentin via email we are no closer to a solution.

The day I posted here, I went to Bitmain's website and read that for people who can repair their own machines, they can order parts.  The BB board listed said to state what model you are repairing as it needs to be programmed correctly, so I placed an order for an 1/0 and a BB board, seeing that S9 wasn't listed on the parts, but that they still haven't put the manual for the S9 up either, so I figured they had not updated the website.  I stated CLEARLY on the order that I needed S9 parts, that I had a defective S9 and that once I was able to determine which board was bad, or both for that matter, I would request a RMA and return it for a replacement, keeping whatever returned as a spare part.  Makes sense from my end as I lose more money being offline than the cost of the parts.  I get a order confirmation and it is sent out and then I get a message from Quentin that they don't have S9 parts for sale.  SO what is on the way to me, I still have not gotten an answer, I cannot give a screenshot as it doesn't even appear on my network (so there is nothing to navigate to) NOW my new batch 3 miner is down.  Out of 3 I have only 1 working.  One of the hashcards is not working and I have uploaded a screenshot of it, but we are now at 5 days and Quentin doesn't seem to understand what is going on.  HELP.  Do I take delivery and see if the parts are right?  He will not answer me.

US govt takes only 0.3464%, at least that's what my FedEx bills show. Plus $7 flat fee of some sort charged by FedEx. If you have to pay 3% there must be something wrong.

How many of the Bitmain APW3's have you tried out? Through my testing I have 1 remote connected to a APW3 and one now at my place connected to an APW3 and not having issues with them.

What way are you testing the APW3 to determine they are coming up short?  I have been testing by running the units with them so wanted to what tests you were using to get this. Just trying to compare as we seem to be getting different results.

I think I am stuck since they sent my   june 9th order and my june 12th order on the same day.

each is 1985 plus shipping or 2047 + 2047 = 4094  which is over the threshold of 2500.

I do not want to complain  to ups as I have  had many orders before on the s-7 and even the s-9 .

So if the driver want 3% of 4100  that is 123 usd   i will eat the charge and never order gear from bitmaintech again .

 as I just can't deal with the drama any more.

I will have 4 s-9's and it will have to be enough

The only time that happened to me was on an S7 and the fee was $38.  I think the cost was around $1900 but I can't recall now.

You might be able to call UPS and get it reversed.  I did.  But I had to pay the driver to get it and they sent me a refund check about a month later.

I think there was a post about the HST Code that they use for shipping.  If they use the wrong HST code you may incur additional charges.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13512588

well they were ordered on the 9th and the 12th .

they have separate order numbers and separate tracking numbers.

so i am not going to go nuts over it. since they arrive the same day I guess they can be combined.  If the combination is legal for the total I am over 2500.

so I will lose the day pay the fee.

When shipping to the USA if the value of a shipment exceeds $2,500 then Customs Import Duty kicks in. Same applies to folks returning from abroad with trinkets they picked up during their travels.

Considering the price of s9's yeah 2x def puts ya over that threshold.

EDIT: Interesting reading... https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/internet-purchases

I believe items over $200 are subject to customs duties and/or taxes.  Then there is a Merchandise Processing Fee that is determined by a threshold of $2,500.  I don't claim to be an expert, but I know certain items like computers are exempt from one or both of the fees.  That's how some get it through with no additional cost (I think).

If you want to fight it, you need to identify what is exempt and make a claim based on that exemption.  If you want to pay it I believe you have to procure a broker to handle it (most shipping companies can do this).  The fees shouldn't be more than about 3%.  It may be faster and more economical to pay the fee depending on potential delay.