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Author Topic: Returning an old server to GDC Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 06-23-2019 07:54 PM                        I want to return my SA-2100A to GDC for the credit. Since it's going to California, I thought it would be cheaper if a friend of mine took it to Minot and shipped it on UPS from there. He got to the border with it yesterday and they wouldn't let him through with it. He had to leave it at the border station and pick it up again on his way back. So I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and pay UPS for sending it from here.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-06-2019 09:50 PM                        Why wouldn't they let it through? Or were they trying to make him pay import duty on it?  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 07-06-2019 10:48 PM                        I'm not really sure why, and I don't think he knows either. He just said that the border guards wouldn't let it through but they would keep it there at the border station for him so he could pick it up again on his way back. Which he did. Ultimately I shipped it out from the UPS store in Regina last Friday and according to the online tracking information it's in Billings right now and will be at its destination in California next Wednesday. It cost me $250 for freight which I'm sure would have been a lot less if it had gone from Minot instead, but what can you do...  |  IP: Logged

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