EU Used Intel DC S3500 160/300GB (60/98€ - shipped price)

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Those disks are on offer for the same price every now and then from him, feedback looks ok.
I have not bought from him, but contacted him previously for a discount on larger orders and it seemed possible. Didn't come to it since the drives where gone before we agreed on the details.
 
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Flintstone

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Seller wanted €20 in shipping to Norway - so for me it's probably better to wait for a good US deal with Global Shipping.
 
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With import and shipping it's a litte bit expensive. BUT warranty and guaranteed health can be important for someone.
 
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Flintstone

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For me (outside EU) the shipping and tax is the same and no import fees (from Germany probably €20 fees). Global Shipping is a gamechanger for me atleast.
 
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Really? I think the Global Shipping program charges a bit for the service too you should at least check if using something like Jetcarrier could be cheaper. But if expediency is important to you, you may be willing to pay more.
Also wasn't shipping from Germany about the same? You really sure you have to pay extra fees when buying from Germany? That isn't my experience.
 
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Global Shipping is almost always cheaper. No extra charges that I know of, and the shipping is often damned cheap for heavy items. I found another benefit aswell - ebay includes the VAT as part of the purchase prize, so when I got duped on an item the other day, they also have to refund VAT.
 
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German parcels are often sent with DHL. They charge like 175 NOK or so for the customs work. I don't mind paying VAT, but I am tired of paying DHL and UPS.
 
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Problem with Global Shipping is when you purchase items to a VAT-registered company. To get the paperwork needed to reclaim VAT you have to jump through a couple of extra hoops.
 
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So SSD came by today. This is his smartctl -a output:

Code: 
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-4.4.15-1-pve] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Intel 730 and DC S3500/S3700 Series SSDs
Device Model:     INTEL SSDSC2BB300G4
Serial Number:    BTWL313301Z2300PGN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001517 8f35f7fc4
Firmware Version: D2010370
User Capacity:    300,069,052,416 bytes [300 GB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon Aug 22 17:58:17 2016 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x33) Offline data collection activity
                                        is in a Reserved state.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   3) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                (13107) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        No Auto Offline data collection support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       39
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       28
170 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
171 Program_Fail_Count      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
172 Erase_Fail_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
174 Unsafe_Shutdown_Count   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       25
175 Power_Loss_Cap_Test     0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       647 (1 7)
183 SATA_Downshift_Count    0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   090    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Temperature_Case        0x0022   075   075   000    Old_age   Always       -       25 (Min/Max 19/25)
192 Unsafe_Shutdown_Count   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       25
194 Temperature_Internal    0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       34
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 CRC_Error_Count         0x003e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
225 Host_Writes_32MiB       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       197875
226 Workld_Media_Wear_Indic 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       645
227 Workld_Host_Reads_Perc  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
228 Workload_Minutes        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2230
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
234 Thermal_Throttle        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0/0
241 Host_Writes_32MiB       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       197875
242 Host_Reads_32MiB        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       196216

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Bonus:

Code: 
badblocks -v /dev/sdf > /tmp/bad-blocks-sdf.txt
Checking blocks 0 to 293036183
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)
 
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I decided to not buy from him. He seems confused about VAT rules.
hello
best way to send stuf to Norway it´s via Post / DHL
If the stuff cames in, you have to go to you local custom office and you pay the Norwegian VAT

i can only cut the 19 % German VAT if i write a invoice to a Norwegian company with a VAT ID number
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This is false. You should not pay German VAT regardless if you buy as a company or not. You would end up paying VAT twice then. And I'm not gonna visit my local customs office to sort this out.

And now everything is sold out it seems.
 
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This is exactly what i have had in my mind lately as i've used Global Shipping from the US quite some time for now, but planning to reclaim the VAT on a registered company.
I'd highly appreciate any more info or links about this subject if you have done this before.

Kybber said:
Problem with Global Shipping is when you purchase items to a VAT-registered company. To get the paperwork needed to reclaim VAT you have to jump through a couple of extra hoops.
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I try not to buy from EU auctions. Only exeption is UK - they almost always have a good handle the VAT stuff - my guess is that this is because they do alot of dealings with other parts of GB. Postage is also dirt cheap from UK to NO - not so from most other EU countries. Prices is also almost always high.

Global shipping (if available) or JetCarrier rocks - I do not use anything else anymore from the US,
 
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fossxplorer said:
This is exactly what i have had in my mind lately as i've used Global Shipping from the US quite some time for now, but planning to reclaim the VAT on a registered company.
I'd highly appreciate any more info or links about this subject if you have done this before.
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The main problem with Global Shipping is that even though VAT may be explicitly listed on your invoice (in USD/EUR/GBP etc), you need paperwork from the customs handlers stating the value in NOK. I called the directorate of customs to discuss the issue, but unfortunately they had no solution other than to contact the shipping company and hope for the best. So that's what I did: After my Oculus Rift arrived I called UPS Norway, told them I needed the customs paperwork for my accounts and gave them the tracking number and my email. A day or two later I received an email with a pdf with everything I need, thus saving me ~1650NOK/$200 :)
 
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So the local Norwegian authorities need the VAT we pay for the import of a product specified in NOK to be able to reclaim it? Most of the time my stuff arrive into Posten (Norwegian Postal service). So i need to call them for such i guess.

Anyway thanks for your replay, appreciated!

Kybber said:
The main problem with Global Shipping is that even though VAT may be explicitly listed on your invoice (in USD/EUR/GBP etc), you need paperwork from the customs handlers stating the value in NOK. I called the directorate of customs to discuss the issue, but unfortunately they had no solution other than to contact the shipping company and hope for the best. So that's what I did: After my Oculus Rift arrived I called UPS Norway, told them I needed the customs paperwork for my accounts and gave them the tracking number and my email. A day or two later I received an email with a pdf with everything I need, thus saving me ~1650NOK/$200 :)
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