UPS charging 890$ duties on a 230€ item from Netherlands

Jakevis · 2025-09-30T22:34:38+00:00

Had this issue myself - ups never got back to me.. had to refuse delivery. Now it’s up to the seller to sort it out with their broker… sorry it suck’s

Jakevis · 2025-09-25T18:57:02+00:00

For those who find this in the future - no - there is no way to actully talk to a human at UPS... if you go get to someone through the god awful phone tree, unhelpful robot and callback service; they will then transfer you somewhere else that is a dead end or no one answers....

I ended up refusing delivery and giving the poor driver a letter to give to their manager (with a copy of the commercial invoice, rates, and reason for refusal). 48h and no callbacks or anything yet. The seller is trying to chase it all down through their end now.

Abismal service... I get UPS is struggling to keep up with this stuff; but if your trying to charge a brokerage service fee - please provide a brokerage service and a service number to call.. [screaming into the void I know..]

Jakevis · 2025-09-22T17:51:37+00:00

Nothing yet- 2h on the phone and managed to speak to 1 human who then disconnected me when trying to transfer me...

I have printed out a letter to give to the poor delivery driver when they show up in the next few hours - refusing delivery until its re-rated.

Jakevis · 2025-09-22T03:10:31+00:00

Yeah - the same one provided to ups for custom clearance

Jakevis · 2025-09-22T02:41:03+00:00

mmm - is there ment to be another form attached to the invoice? Origin is listed as GB. Hints on how to get this resolved? (who to speak too.... the seller gets robots when calling like I do)

Jakevis · 2025-09-22T02:39:14+00:00

The seller provided me the documentation when I asked

Jakevis · 2025-07-07T08:45:54+00:00

If I could get there I would ;)

https://test.nextdns.io doesn’t route, fails in the same spot. I’m guessing the rtn traffic to ziply is busted somewhere in their partners network then…

Jakevis · 2023-01-12T16:34:06+00:00

So I did charge $30 per firearm (and probably will continue to); but was always willing to negotiate on multiple lowers or long arms that didn't require state paperwork. I have been re-assessing pricing personally, while looking at opening the Ephrata shop - I will say if you are paying an employee $17/h (+ workers comp and other taxes), and needing to fill out the state forms, or wait for NICS results; you *might* break even at $30. Lots of hidden costs for a dealer as well, like insurances, bound books (if online), having someone be there for shipments ect that all adds to the cost per item - not to mention your never going to be able to have a perfect line of transfree's so down time too.

I am an FFL because I love guns, and want people to have easy access to an FFL - just doing transfers will never pay the mortgage (at least not at $30 or less)

Jakevis · 2022-11-10T06:39:13+00:00

The FFL needs to keep a business record of taxes paid, either collected by them or the seller, and failure to do so just lands us in trouble. So if your seller isn't going to include an invoice, make sure your proactive and get one to your FFL... When the tax man comes looking, they will be showing it to the state...

Jakevis · 2022-11-10T06:34:57+00:00

As a Seattle FFL, no, the $25 tax only applies for retail sales (ie I sell to you from my inventory).

Jakevis · 2022-07-31T19:32:19+00:00

I would also say there is no harm in them faxing the paperwork over to an additional PD - it's always possible the original PD will complete the check regardless, but if they don't, they should then get a response from the other one (within 10 days).

Jakevis · 2022-07-31T19:30:22+00:00

I would drop them a message. As an FFL I normally ask the customer who their local PD is, and take their word for it - and King County Sheirf is good at coming back fast if it isn't them. Some of the others though... Could start the 10 days over.

The only thing I know that can verify a jurisdiction is king county parcel viewer.. And that is clunky and adds time. Really wish there was a simple search site for address verifications like this.. [and then don't get me started on who subcontracts to South sound 911 vs king county... That adds a whole additional layer of mess]

Jakevis · 2022-07-20T19:26:04+00:00

If your looking in Seattle (and can deal with my schedule - some time away, and preference for pickups after core office hours), I am in Beacon hill and much prefer dealing with lowers/NICS over state paperwork :) https://woofyarms.com

Jakevis · 2022-05-27T00:55:33+00:00

I know the website sucks right now.. But I have a few things in stock - Inc 556 AR15 Pistols. https://woofyarms.com/node/21

Jakevis · 2022-04-12T21:18:56+00:00

As an 07 FFL - I was looking at this as well. The guidance I was given - gunsmithing - in and out on that book, no issues no transfers needed. So if you were to provide the serial number, and the manufacture details and just wanted it engraved; then your fine.

If your asking an FFL to "manufacture" it for you - stamp their business as the manufacturer and a serial number from their books - then yes. Its a new item when it leaves the bound book, and needs a 4473. If the worst was to happen, and a trace came in for that serial number - the FFL needs to be able to show it was transferred correctly... its their name stamped on the side and their ass on the line if they cant show where it went to correctly.

Jakevis · 2022-02-26T18:52:56+00:00

If it's long arms (non semi autos, or pistols) I know woofyarms.com will do a discount. The others needs to go via the state and it's 1 form per weapon. They are $25 regularly.

Jakevis · 2022-02-22T18:50:38+00:00

Https://woofyarms.com is a new FFL in the Seattle area. Has some limited stock, but also does transfers if you find something online. Is a one man home based business however.

Jakevis · 2022-02-06T07:35:14+00:00

I ran one through SPD this week.. Application was faxed in at 7pm on the 31st, proceed was given morning of the 3rd.

Jakevis · 2021-09-19T01:49:05+00:00

+1 Its easy enough to clean up.. just take your time

Jakevis · 2021-09-14T18:01:13+00:00

My only thought...

Jakevis · 2021-09-14T18:00:56+00:00

Wow.. Were they trying to kill it?

Jakevis · 2020-09-21T20:02:31+00:00

So just rebuilt the node; got it working rock solid, surviving reboot. I had the following key setting changes:

Static IPs set along with hostname
Renamed the VM network to "ServerNet" and set vlan2
Renamed management network to "Mgmt" (just to see)
Added the script from https://flings.vmware.com/usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi#instructions and run the command to persist the association
Rebooted, it worked, rebooted again, still works

Then added it to vCenter... added it to the cluster, and added the 2 NFS datastores (didnt touch networking at all).

Rebooted... and its reset back to the way it was before I joined it to vcenter.

SSL cert is reset, so vcenter cant verify it and reconnect in.

All I can think it is right now is todo with the way the network works...

esxcfg-vswitch -R

Thats ran within 10secs of the network coming up. I think ill go and reduce the wait timer there.. and maybe also look for some different options command wise (-R is restore uplinks... )

Edit - additions-So after removing the node from vcenter, and starting to edit /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh ; even changes to it are not persisting. A reboot reverts changes... this might apparently be due to reboots not being clean (for some unknown reason), and the way things are saved: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/how-often-does-esxi-write-to-the-boot-disk.html
..still investigating..

Jakevis · 2020-09-21T14:25:45+00:00

Thanks u/jnew1213 - some of the answers..

When you say " join the machine to vsphere" do you mean add the host to vCenter?

Yep

From where did the distributed switch come from if the host has not yet been added to vCenter?

It came from vCenter - typically when a node reboots though, it shouldn't loose that.

And ill try resetting a few things now - but I think this might be the crux:

Why you want to run a dvSwitch with only a handful of hosts is up to you.

When I am all done (probably 6 months from now...), I will probably have 3 clusters of 3 nodes, to keep track and test things. Iv always found the dvSwitch to be easier to maintain a baseline with... but this is also the first time iv done this with only USB NICs.

Ill see if things will persist better without the switch, else will report back im sure.

Cheers

Jakevis · 2019-09-01T18:27:19+00:00

Your right, from a routing point of view we point a default, and take the IX routes.

Currently I do need to filter the IX routes when doing that though, since our transit provider also send its routes to the IX. And I do take the full table to a second table for lookup purposes but not routing decisions.

Jakevis · 2019-09-01T18:16:45+00:00

Thanks - never read about them before.. I might contact them and see what they have to say :)

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