Sending servers TO the US

[Shachar Shemesh]

Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This will sound dumb to most of you but I'm not in Israel so my
> situation might be different.
>
> Does anyone here has experience sending servers (e.g. Dell PowerEdge
> 860 rack-mounted) TO the US?
>
> We have an opportunity to buy a few second-hands on a bankruptcy
> fire-sale and wonder how much would it cost (tax-wise) to just pack
> them with me when I visit there later this month.
>
> The sale closes tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>   
Yes, I did this once. It was a Sparc machine that we installed in 
Israel, and then I took with me to the US to be installed.

When we arrived I approached the first customs officer and told him 
about it. He asked whether he could worship the Sun (did a couple of 
actual bows - jokes by a customs officer were so outside of my field of 
experience that I totally failed to get the joke), and then waved us 
through, and that was it.

Of course, that was pre-9/11.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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