Sending servers TO the US

[Noam Rathaus]

Shachar,

You are talking about taking a server with you when you fly to the US

He is refering to shipping it with a courier like UPS and FedEx

In that case, you don't even get the wave, UPS and FedEx take care of
everything :)

2009/8/10 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>:
> 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
>
> --
> Shachar Shemesh
> Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
> http://www.lingnu.com
>
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