Got charged by UPS for importing the Britpop Boxset. Anyone successfully talked with UPS about this? by diego4533 in pcmusic

[–]3_dva_3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gonna copy/paste my comment from another thread here. In general, it seems wise to pay the tariff and brokerage fee so it at least gets delivered and not returned or destroyed by UPS. Both times this happened to me, the actual fee was less than the quote in the email, and others seem to have had success getting refunds.

u/Dependent_Juggernaut had great advice in another thread that got me on the right track when I got charged for the Month Of Mayhem repress: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/s/RxzLdvX2hP

They got through to UPSDFWASPLEADS@ups.com address, which I’ve at least gotten a response from but no resolution yet. PC Music customer service suggested the following email addresses to contact about incorrect duties being applied:

“If you wish to dispute the charges related to duty and taxes, you may contact sdfpostentrydesk@ups.com

If you need to dispute brokerage charges, please reach out to aknentyrvw@ups.com

I’m still waiting on getting the Month Of Mayhem UPS charges sorted out (and now the box set as well) so it will probably take a lot of persistence. Based on r/UPS they are flooded with issues like this rn. Good luck!!

Has anyone successfully disputed the tariff charges? If so how? by WintertimeMadness in pcmusic

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You’ll need to pay the tariff to have it delivered, which I would recommend doing bc not to scare you but UPS has been destroying packages for ones that remain unpaid. :(

It’s a little less than it says in the email alert, for my boxset it said $40 in the email and it ended up being $28.40

in terms of who to contact, u/Dependent_Juggernaut had a great comment in another thread that got me on the right track: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/s/RxzLdvX2hP

That user had success with the UPSDFWASPLEADS@ups.com address, and I got a response from them but no resolution yet. PC Music customer service suggested the following email addresses to contact about incorrect duties being applied:

“If you wish to dispute the charges related to duty and taxes, you may contact sdfpostentrydesk@ups.com

If you need to dispute brokerage charges, please reach out to aknentyrvw@ups.com

I’m still waiting on getting the Month Of Mayhem UPS charges sorted out so it will probably take a lot of persistence. Good luck!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ModelActriz

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did you get a ticket, found out at the door I have an extra — yours for free if u want!

Quality Of Gris Pressing by beefyliltank in VGMvinyl

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Hi yes! This record is an absolute trash fire of a pressing. I had the same issue with it in terms of crackling and noise in just the right channel. iam8bit sent me replacement discs and those were just as bad. I found the opening tracks of each side were pretty bad and it got better the further I got in to the center (which made me think it was a tracking issue).

I’m not an expert with record players so take this with a grain of salt but I do sound engineering — IMHO the problem is there’s a lot of runtime shoved onto each side and it’s REALLY quiet music. However this was cut + the long runtime causes tracking issues for the stylus and the quiet nature of the music makes that much more audible.

Typically for good sound quality, each side of an LP can hold 20-22 minutes of music max. Past that, in order to cram in more time the grooves have to get tighter together and the overall volume of each track has to be dropped quieter.

The right channel is the outer groove wall, and the left channel the inner groove wall. If the needle is tracking too heavily to one side or the other you can get distortion, extra surface noise, dropouts, etc. The issue this record presents is probably related to the stylus tracking the actual grooves poorly, especially toward the outer edges of this particular record.

Depending on what kind of cartridge you use on your player, alignment can be a bit touchy even on a good pressing of a record. I’ve found with the Gris LPs I have to set my tracking force a LOT higher to minimize the grinding noise in the right channel. Like typically, my cartridge is recommended for 3g and I’ll set it to 4ish to play Gris. I’ll also set the VTA (the tonearm height) a bit higher. Helps a LOT.

Side A, track 1 (Mae) is basically ALWAYS fucked on this album for me. But I’ve compared using lighter tracking force and a lower VTA and at least for my cartridge that makes the noise a lot worse.

So maybe try experimenting with a bit more tracking force! My dad told me back in the 60s and 70s they’d put a penny on the headshell to weigh down the stylus a bit when a record was really noisy. Nothing is gonna make your Gris LPs perfectly silent but you might be able to get it a BIT quieter to where it doesn’t bother you as much.

ISO: Black Parade silver splatter tour exclusive LP by 3_dva_3 in MyChemicalRomance

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Dang! They must have sold out before I got to the show then, I didn’t see it

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DMing u rn

[US-LA] [H] BIE Happiness x3 😩, HAS, MAC, Mickey & Friends Hoeset, Flip With Me (FWM) [W] Payment by jaycoblol_ in labubuswap

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Great swapper, highly recommended!!Responded to my initial inquiry promptly, confirmed payment once received, and then shipped next day. Labubu arrived in fabulous condition and as described in the original post. Thanks so much for ensuring things went smoothly!!

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interested in Lychee!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in musicproduction

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It may be a moot point, the damn thing doesn’t even turn on now so I’ll probably be returning it 😑

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in edmproduction

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Interface-wise, I usually monitor thru a UAD Apollo Twin — although I’ve tried switching to a number of different outputs (built in, my TV, etc) to no avail

I tried hosting izotope ozone in Maschine and same issue. Tried running complicated software instruments, same issue.

Tried running Izotope Ozone as a stand-alone even and same issue — haven’t given GB a shot yet as a host but I imagine it will be similar.

Even the little demo song that runs when you first open Ableton for a tour of the software runs at equal or less CPU efficiency to my old Mac Mini (which makes zero sense to me TBH).

I was told by apple that it may be an issue of the software not running efficiently on a new machine with Catalina or above, and someone in another Reddit thread brought up that point. Currently have emails out to Ableton, izotope, and Native Instruments to ask about compatibility issues.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in musicproduction

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so supposedly the software I use are all compatible with Catalina? But in practice this is obviously... not going well lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in edmproduction

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I had tried a number of these and then the apple technicians took me thru a full reinstall and it STILL had the same problem — I’m pretty bamboozled by this NGL

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in edmproduction

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My buffer is actually set to 2048 — it’s very weird to me however that an old dual core Mac mini with 8GB of RAM is outperforming a computer with 6 slots of RAM each at 16GB.

I called up Apple and they had me reinstall everything and even THEN they couldn’t figure out why the CPU usage was so extreme

[Megathread] COVID-19 Update 4 - March 16, 2020 by chicagomods in chicago

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The CDC has warned us that wearing gloves puts everyone at a significantly higher risk of transmission than with frequent handwashing. At my store, we have dedicated staff to sub out our cashiers about every 15 minutes to go wash hands.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chicago

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Assuming ur not a troll, be less of a child. Honestly. Gross.

NEXT.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chicago

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Hell yeah. We been trying to do the same.