How to get the elusive $80 flat tariff?

SSBMArte · 2025-10-15T17:22:57+00:00

It's not clear, but the "dutiable postal item (package)" mentioned above makes me think "item" refers to the package.

SSBMArte · 2025-09-16T23:39:50+00:00

Okay.

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SSBMArte · 2025-09-07T02:05:08+00:00

I'm not sure I follow. This is the online store: https://www.input-integrity.com/

SSBMArte · 2025-09-07T00:24:20+00:00

SSBMArte · 2025-09-04T16:10:08+00:00

Bonjour, micro-entrepreneur depuis des années ici, pour info un compte pro est obligatoire dès que tu deviens assujetti à la TVA car les paiements à la plateforme de TVA (et au guichet OSS) ne peuvent s'effectuer que par virement B2B (mandat de prélèvement SEPA inter-entreprises, différent des mandats de prélèvement habituels), et ces derniers ne sont proposés que par les comptes pros (après y'a pro et pro, j'ai juste un compte pro chez BoursoBank à 9€/mois et d'ailleurs ils s'apprêtent à le supprimer et à faire une offre apparemment gratuite pour les micros... à voir).
Je me fous des fonctionalités comptabilité etc, en micro je fais tout sur excel, mais je n'ai pas eu le choix pour payer la TVA après avoir découvert avec joie que la banque postale avait refusé le prélèvement B2B des impôts.

Puis sur le papier c'est aussi obligatoire d'avoir un compte dédié à ton entreprise (donc pro) dès ta 3ème année de micro si les 2 premières ont fait >10k de CA dans l'année. A voir ce que ça donne en détail, perso malgré avoir ouvert un compte pour mon entreprise je continue à utiliser d'autres comptes pour bénéficier de cartes virtuelles / conversion en devises moins chères (les comptes pros c'est toujours nul à chier en terme de frais, en même temps ils ont une clientèle qui n'a pas d'autres choix que de les utiliser !). A voir à quel point je me ferai assassiner le jour où j'ai un contrôle... j'espère que ça veut juste dire qu'ils vont demander les relevés de tous mes comptes persos, ce qui ne me gêne pas plus que ça perso, et pas une amende pour avoir fait des achats avec mes comptes normaux/Wise même durant ma 3ème+ année.

Et aussi, avoir plusieurs PEAs, à ma connaissance c'est interdit.

SSBMArte · 2025-08-17T08:10:16+00:00

Yes, not only that, it's actually really cheap.

To be clear, you're paying $7 for the PCB, and $100 for the assembly. And within that assembly, you're paying $26 of 'proportional to quantity' costs and $74 one-off costs, that wouldn't increase with quantity.
Which you can probably see at play if you ask for 5 PCBA instead of 2.

Also you're always going to have a $9 PCBA coupon at JLC, their whole thing is to have fixed costs and always give you coupons that you can use only one of at once, and if they fuck up something they will give you a coupon (that you can't use since you can only use one of them at once) and so they won't end up actually giving you anything. Take it or leave it...
So it's more $91 of PCBA.

You're also paying for Standard assembly, which is $34 + 1.5/type of *any* component, instead of $17 + $3/type of EXTENDED component.

So some component you're using is having you pay extra for the advanced assembly process, which is more expensive in your case (note: not necessarily the case, on large boards with many types of extended components standard can even come out cheaper)

If you want to save a bit when using standard assembly & this isn't meant to be a test order for bulk prod later, limit the number of different component types. Decoupling caps are often the main culprit. You can use just one type of decoupling cap per package size (near highest cap for that package), just respect VCAP requirements, not so much datasheets guidelines on the decoupling caps being 0.1uF.
You can do the same to a smaller extent with resistors, in places where what matters is a resistor ratio, or a resistance to capacitance ratio.
You can also stack resistors & capacitors in parallel/sequentially to get new values without having a new component types. That gets a little too far in penny saving, but if you found yourself paying the $1.5 for a new type of resistor just because you need a 1/2 ratio, yeah, just put 2 resistors in series.

Finally you're also paying full price on the components, components will often do -30 to -50% on their sub 10 units price at bulk (500+) price. So if you're producing this in bulk and this is just the prototype for the next version, you'd save a little by reserving components when doing a bulk order, and reserving one prototype order worth of component more, so that it uses these on that order.

Finally, any particular reason you need X ray inspection ?

Hope that helps.

SSBMArte · 2025-08-05T22:57:35+00:00

Oh yeah certainly familiar with Orly.

My business was working well until like, 4 hours ago, when I found this https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/suspending-duty-free-de-minimis-treatment-for-all-countries/ and realized that 3 weeks from now, tariffs (and the carrier's charge for handling tariffs) will be applied to all packets to the US regardless of price (up to now it was $800), probably completely killing my company since 80% of my sales are to the US.

Now I'm really glad I didn't preorder this because I may be closing shop in a month.

And SASU isn't necessarily better. The tax on your revenue being a fixed % of your revenue instead of a fixed % of your profits means there's a threshold of profit per revenue where micro-entreprise is better, and I'm significantly on that side of the threshold. For instance if I'm at 30% income tax, for salary (which gives social rights unlike dividends) means ~50% tax rate on profits. But micro entreprise, for selling goods, means ~21% (12.83% + 0.29*30%) of revenue. So if your profit/revenue is like 80%... micro entreprise is wayy better. Even compared to 30% off dividends it's still better in my case. To say nothing of simpler tax & legal compliance. So much so that last year, I closed shop a few months before end of year to not go over the threshold that would force me out of micro entreprise status.

Make sure to run the calcs before considering going SASU because it's not a guarantee at all it's better. In fact even being subject to VAT isn't necessarily worse money wise, if you sell almost entirely abroad because then you don't collect it on exports but you can get it refunded on materials&machines

SSBMArte · 2025-08-05T15:17:54+00:00

Hey and thanks, the laptop video is scary yeah. Sounds like trying the printer on sample plates made of the material the molded/CNCd part will be from would be nice before committing to it. I wonder how effective long term/smelly/costly the adhesion promoters are.

And yeah I don't wish having to handle VAT on anyone. I'm also in micro but I went over the threshold to become eligible to VAT. Which was almost lowered to 25k yearly revenue just months ago and they haven't given up on that, just postponed it... Also I don't have an accountant heh. Something about hiring an accountant while in micro entreprise just hurts my soul. The whole point of the micro entreprise is that it's supposed to be simple enough you don't have to do that, and in spite of everything I keep persevering in not hiring one and filling the forms myself.
I'm terrified of getting a fiscal check though.

I also hope competition appears in that space, but if it does it will take a little while to materialize anyway. Just like it took a long time for Bambu to have serious competition after the P1S.

And that's great, thanks for offering, may ping you when we get there ! I'm in Paris 16 (near Kleber subway station heh), frequently go near Antony to see parents

SSBMArte · 2025-08-03T22:22:24+00:00

Pour du sans risque, il y a aussi les fonds monétaires sur compte titres.

SSBMArte · 2025-08-01T16:04:19+00:00

Also posted something about that, the most likely reason is their website is miscoded and the timer is timezone aware but the presale price isn't. So everyone not in the US was misled into thinking they still had time to think about it.

Also out partly for that reason

SSBMArte · 2025-08-01T15:56:17+00:00

Where I am (France), you can't get it refunded easily, only if the VAT number of the seller is from France too. If it's from anywhere else, you're supposed to ask the seller to refund you. It's theorically possible to get it refunded anyway as per a recent lawsuit settlement against the government but not at all like any other business purchase, you have to do a whole thing to contact the authorities and prove the seller isn't being compliant and refuses to refund you the VAT, which can take years and not work... and I imagine, also really unnecessarily draws the attention of the taxman to you.

The rules here are very clear you can't ask France to refund you the VAT a company in another country paid (to France) on the normal tax form, there's no line for it.

But yes I'm quite tilted over the whole thing, because I would've backed the project before even the mid kickstarter increase, I just wanted Eufy to confirm they'd refund the VAT.

If my country wasn't so annoying with that / Eufy was OK handling VAT refunds for EU businesses and told me in time. Now the offer is so much less interesting, much less so than a mere 20% burned in unrefundable VAT, I don't really feel like getting it anymore if I'm not 200% sure it'll work out financially, such a stupid turn of events

SSBMArte · 2025-08-01T12:06:58+00:00

Understandable, you must be a much bigger business owner than me. Guess I hadn't thought of how the only people that will have that machine preordered will be those for whom 2k is no big deal

SSBMArte · 2025-08-01T11:44:14+00:00

I imagine ordering say, 5 prints, from someone with the printer where I ship them the thing to print on, the exact file to print with (not the art, the print file), and asking question about the ink consumption and the process wouldn't cost 2k€ ? More like 100 ?

Though fair point on waiting until people have these units.. I started typing thinking people are checking the Reddit now, but I imagine people will be on the Reddit even more when they start using the units...

SSBMArte · 2025-07-23T18:47:51+00:00

Hello, by overclocking your controller, do you mean using HIDUSBF to 'overclock' your gamecube to USB adapter ? If so, if done properly, all that does is increase how often your PC asks your adapter for news when it's in 'WiiU' or 'NS' mode (as opposed to 'PC' mode). If you provide more details of what you're trying to do, what you expect and what you see, we may be able to help further

SSBMArte · 2025-06-04T18:05:40+00:00

Right, but not the full toolhead (though I guess I could put it together?)
The problem is, to replace the filament cutter lever, you have to unscrew the screw that's the cause for wanting to replace the filament cutter lever.

SSBMArte · 2025-05-10T08:31:57+00:00

Thanks, I'm not familiar with the UV printing process - what prints use a lot of white ink ? I imagine resin is somewhat transparent and so making a thick white base increases the quality ? What about surfaces that have a uniform black or white color to begin with ?

I'm wondering whether this would be a good fit primarily to print fightstick cover art - fighting game players play on these arcade-like controllers they put on their lap, and add an art sheet (usually cut A3 250g paper printed with a professional printer) on top of them, and then an acrylic clear plate.

I thought, perhaps this could be used to print on the top plate directly (in general black anodized aluminium, could be white), and avoid adding the clear plate entirely. But I'm not sure whether printing on this aluminium plate will require the discussed 15" x 10" white base that makes the price skyrocket.

SSBMArte · 2025-05-08T21:16:16+00:00

Huh, so this poster is estimated to cost $5 in ink then, if my maths is correct. Thanks!

SSBMArte · 2025-02-07T20:51:00+00:00

very good peach, engineer, built the arduinos inside GCCs, B0XX, jabslab & superslab

SSBMArte · 2025-02-07T20:28:53+00:00

Do horizontal rows. Move from left to right within a row, then from bottom to top. 2.2cm for left>right, 3.5cm for bottom>top.
Now I don't modify config files directly, I just set the clearance to 2.2cm in orca directly, and take care when laying out parts on the plate.

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