In retrospect, my decision to order these connectors turned out to be a terrible idea.
The whole process has been very frustrating and so far has cost me more than my regular monthly salary with nothing to show for.
Having ordered stuff from China before, I did not anticipate that this would turn into such a difficult transaction.
For the record, the connectors have been manufactured and shipped and have been sitting in customs for about a week now. DHL sent me a customs invoice a while ago, as they usually do, and which I paid right away, but there was no progress on the delivery.
It took a lot of back and forth between me and DHL to figure out what was happening, and according to them, I am not _allowed_ to buy 1000 pieces of something (never heard of such a thing before) unless I am a company, which I am not, obviously. So they have basically forced me to register a company with the government just to be able to receive my package AND on top of that I had to obtain an import licence. What the actual f*ck!
Anyway now that I have (unbelievably) done all that, the paperwork has been submitted and the customs will be re-assessing the value and deciding what to charge me. Even though I already paid (DHL, why submit an invoice if you can't clear it?). I am not aware of what other implications of this are going to be in terms of owning a "business" (lol) or in terms of what they are going to charge me for the import now. According to DHL, it will take 48 more hours before we know anything.
I am really hoping that at the very least they were manufactured correctly. There is also the small thing that with the cancellation of the 1260 and the fact that Edu's 8mb board is no longer open sourced, they are pretty much paper weights now.
In spite of that, I am very relieved that our friend go0se has committed to still buying his share off of me (this was supposed to be a group buy after all), although now I am starting to wonder how can I ship this so that he does not incur in the same border difficulties as I have (and consider I have no idea what triggered them for me in the first place).
SIgh... I am not blaming anyone here, it's my responsibility for entering into this, out of desire to get my hands on the rare holy grail of amiga computing, the 1200 connector.
