The 45,000 Baht brick :(

[MJCM]

wow Let’s see how this ends

[Crossy]

It will be interesting if they publish the "revised valuation" on the delivery documents.

 

[Crossy]

Movement ???? 

 

 

Do DHL deliver on Saturday?

 

[007 RED]

50 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Movement ???? 

 

Do DHL deliver on Saturday?

 

YES... and if your extra lucky, on Sundays too.

[Crossy]

Getting closer ???? 

 

 

[Crossy]

 

But I hope the driver has a boat or a submarine:-

 

[carlyai]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

But I hope the driver has a boat or a submarine:-

 

Hope you don't get all we had up NE, but a lond way away. 

She'll be right. ????

[Crossy]

1 minute ago, carlyai said:

Hope you don't get all we had up NE, but a lond way away. 

She'll be right. ????

 

The problem is it's coming our way down several rivers ???? 

[HidyHo]

This thread has more suspense than some of the movie/TV shows I watch!!!

 

????????????????????

[007 RED]

Hi @Crossy  Any sign of the replacement ?????  The suspense is killing us.

[Crossy]

14 minutes ago, 007 RED said:

Hi @Crossy  Any sign of the replacement ?????  The suspense is killing us.

 

Unfortunately Madam is at the hospital today, so if they want to deliver after about 12.00 it will have to wait.

 

[007 RED]

???? & ???? they come before 12.00

[Crossy]

YES!!

 

And looks like nothing to pay (Madam didn't call to ask for $$$)

 

Once I see the actual paperwork, we might see the revised customs value.

 

 

 

Photo sent by Madam

 

[007 RED]

Lets hope that it works after DHL have 'inspected' it.

[Crossy]

8 minutes ago, 007 RED said:

Lets hope that it works after DHL have 'inspected' it.

 

It was customs who inspected it, but ...

 

I might just power the beast up on the bench before mounting it, just in case 

[CharlieH]

Had me hooked !  Great suspense, Better than a Tnai-soap. ???? No one got beaten up though and the driver wasnt your iligitimate son. ????

[Crossy]

5 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Had me hooked !  Great suspense, Better than a Tnai-soap. ???? No one got beaten up though and the driver wasnt your iligitimate son. ????

 

No dicey cops (ok there was customs involved), and you need at least one ladyboy, a midget and possibly a ghost or two for a proper Thai soap.

 

[Encid]

2 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

No dicey cops (ok there was customs involved), and you need at least one ladyboy, a midget and possibly a ghost or two for a proper Thai soap.

 

The Thai implementation/definition of "woke"... 

[007 RED]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

It was customs who inspected it, but ...

 

Was it?   I wouldn't be to sure.  I would bet 10 2 1 that DHL opened the parcel to inspect the inverter and identify the make/model/serial # which they then checked via the internet against the declared made by the Sofar when they shipped it.

 

As far as I'm aware the major freight players such as FedEx, DHL and UPS have a 'special' agreement with Thai customs insofar that they initially 'act' as per Thai customs in clearing the item and determining the amount of duty and tax to be paid.  They then change their 'hat' to that of 'broker' in the negotiations between the customer and themselves as 'customs' regarding the duty/tax payable.  It is only on rare or special occasions that Thai Customs actually become directly involved. 

 

Its win, win for them.  They get paid to ship the item in the first place, then paid a broker's fee by the receiving customer to get customs clearance and then get a nice little percentage commission from Thai customs after they have collected the duty/tax due.

 

I gleamed the above information from my wife's niece who works for one of the above mentioned 'players' a couple of years ago when I imported some first aid equipment from the UK that I was donating to my local rescue foundation.  In that case it was not only the duty/tax that they wanted, but import license's from the Department of Food and Drugs Administration for each item.  Negotiations with them was like pulling the teeth from a tiger.   

 

So you appear to have been very lucky.

 

I hope it works OK when you test/install it.   Are you going to have to return the dead one? 

[Crossy]

Nothing useful to be gleaned from the (no) paperwork left with Madam, but nothing to pay at this end.

 

Whether Sofar picked up any charges is unknown.

 

It's definitely a new inverter with all the necessary accessories, nothing added, nothing taken away.

 

EDIT Actually it didn't have the WiFi dongle but works just fine with the existing one.

[carlyai]

Good result.

[Dan O]

Great news. Did they ask for the broken one back?

[Crossy]

I was rather surprised there was no DHL paperwork at all with the beast, it would have been nice to know what the revised customs value was, but I'm not about to poke any hornet's nests.

 

I did ask about sending the dead one back. The response wasn't a direct "no" but "shipping is very expensive and we have no way of recycling it" which in my mind is pretty close to a "no". I shall do nothing** until they actually ask for it back.

 

** Apart from search on the web and the various user groups to see if anyone has actually de-bricked a Sofar unit after a failed firmware update

[Crossy]

It lives Igor, it lives!

 

[MJCM]

22 hours ago, Crossy said:

It lives Igor, it lives!

 

Oke this one is called "Igor", what is the pet name for your other inverters? ????

[Crossy]

30 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Oke this one is called "Igor", what is the pet name for your other inverters? ????

 

It's actually a line from one of the many "Frankenstein" movies (probably a Hammer production) when the Baron's monster is brought to life!! ???? 

 

Igor is the baron's faithful assistant.

 

[MJCM]

10 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

It's actually a line from one of the many "Frankenstein" movies (probably a Hammer production) when the Baron's monster is brought to life!! ???? 

I know the Movie with Boris Karloff (it's from 1931 that movie but still a great one)

[Crossy]

Just now, MJCM said:

I know the Movie with Boris Karloff (it's from 1931 that movie but still a great one)

 

Mel Brookes' "Young Frankenstein" with Marty Feldman as Igor is excellent too ???? 

[MJCM]

Oke if they don't want the old one back (wait a few months) then start tinkering and maybe you can "unbrick" it and then you have a spare for "Igor and the Baron" ????