Super old guidis I've had forever, maybe 8 years and the previous owner another 5. I'm pretty sure they're legit - everything lines up, both my cobbler who works on guidis and a local boutique think so.
But the leather is super shiny and wrinkles differently than the way I see modern guidis. My cobbler thinks they're just polished. I want to sell them and make sure I get the description of the leather right.
I'm sure many of y'all are aware, fedex charges a $90-150 arbitration fee in any duty dispute if it's found to be "customer caused"
Problem is, I ordered some books and they are tagged with the HS tariff code 6403.20.000, footwear with leather outer soles. There's nothing even with a leather cover, and the title on the duty sheet is clearly the name of the book.
But that triggered 15% 9903.02.20 tariffs. But books should exempt. These were actually shipped in September 2025, before reciprocal tariffs but while general tariffs were still legal.
Does "customer" include the shipper? Would I be charged if the shipper incorrectly applied codes or FedEx is now processing tariffs retroactively missing those exemption codes?
I don't want to give FedEx a cent, I think it's obvious this entire duty scheme and how they process it is anticonsumer and plainly lobbied for and corrupt. That being said, it's $25, and I don't want to fight collections or pay an obscene fee either.
Just posting to warn folks. Their return policy on controllers is only 7 days, which is insane because it two weeks to ship them and I was out of town when they finally arrived.
Customer service kept trying to upsell me on a subscription for a longer return window, which is the most American anti consumer thing I ever heard. Someone pointed out the subscription return policy still wouldn't cover controllers anyways.
Since I was back and forth with gamestop for 30 days, afterwards I opened a paypal case like 32ish days after and Paypal denied it because of a 30 day window even with these photos.
Like what the fuck lol. What employee sent a like new controller with no analog sticks. And I need to open up the black controller because chewed sticks is one thing but it doesn't even turn on, maybe water damage
Why is it $125...?
Edit: I realized it's CBGB related which has been pure "how much can we charge for nostalgia" so dumb question I guess
Hello,
I'm looking for 6tb+ sas drives. A pair, preferrably.
So like many I timed my project a bit too late to catch the cheaper HDDs.
It does not seem like prices are going down anytime soon, so I started to compare the lowest possible prices I could find for reasonable grade drives at high capacities, price per TB.
Criteria was:
- ebay sold listings or active amazon listings.
- not broken or defective, not used chia mining
- totally human, but i looked from prices that were generally clustered from big sellers and not including outliers.
Roughly, I found that between ~10-24tb, sas was always a few bucks cheaper per tb, with SATA around 14-18 and SATA 18-24 .
Which is historically always the case. But that makes the math for say 2x 12tb drives, you save about $70 between two drives. Add a controller card for $40, and you're trading SATA ease of use for SAS always up reliability and added wattage (read speeds can be better, but likely lost benefit here).
However, where I found this math to get most interested is around 3-8tb. I don't understand if I'm seeing bad listings but it seems you can get as low as $8 per tb with SAS 3tb drives, and maybe 10-12 for other "low" capacity cards. Seems like SATA is still around 18-24 per tb at this price point.
Considering a single PCIE controller can control many, if you can route them out of your case you have a pretty easy way to run many cards in parallel, although paying more for usage.
Curious what people think.