[QtonPi] going to refuse the "free" one

[Laszlo Papp]

I am not replying particularly to anybody, just my opinion on the topic, if
I lived in Brazil.

I would most likely get a Pandaboard ES (or something more powerful, if
there is such a BSP) delivered than a raspberry pi, to be honest. It is a
bit more expensive, but since you already pay a huge tax, it would work
better for me all cost / board wise. Raspberry is really just a simple
board without RPC, and a few other features.

Anyway, commiseration guys.

Laszlo

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Anderson Lizardo <
anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org> wrote:

> Hi Jesus,
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Jesus Sanchez-Palencia
> <jesus.palencia at openbossa.org> wrote:
> > I just got the UPS notice that my board has arrived in Brazil but I
> > will refuse mine as well.
> >
> > It is NOT that the board itself is not worthy the cost. I had the
> > chance to hack on a board already for a week or so and it surely
> > rocks!
> >
> > My reasons are more related to "moral" than to money. I can't stand
> > paying 100 dollars of taxes on something that cost 35 dollars to the
> > final customer. This is killing the entire point of Raspberry Pi
> > boards being cheap and accessible, IMHO.
>
> My plan is to pay for whatever taxes they come with, and complain
> loudly to some government representative (maybe they pay attention due
> to elections this year). Not sure if it will make any difference, but
> it will surely cost me much less than a RPi in Brazil to try.
>
> I think I have enough evidence to at least describe how awful is the
> process to get something *for free* in Brazil: the mail letter with
> notification saying I'm a "importer" (how much lucrative is to resell
> a single $35 product?) and that I'm importing "electronic components -
> memory" (??), discrepancies between weights on departure and arrival,
> no clear explanation for the "administrative cost" and where it comes
> from or how it is calculated (and why it is varying so much), voice
> call from UPS saying clearly that shipping cost was paid by sender,
> although I will pay taxes with this value included etc.
>
> BTW, I haven't received mine yet (it already arrived in Manaus, so
> should be delivered today), so I need to get the product, accept it
> properly to get all receipts and then proceed with the tedious
> complaint. I do not expect to get reimbursed, just add noise to the
> matter (which is only affecting me now, I seemed to be "lucky" so far
> and not get taxed for other things I bought in the past).
>
> It's worthy noting that the RPi is already selling in Brazil by a
> Farnell reseller, but it is also very expensive.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Anderson Lizardo
> Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia - INdT
> Manaus - Brazil
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