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Post Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 12:23 am   
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Lucky dog! Congrats bro!!


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Its been a pain in the ass dude. Took a while to come up with shipping cost to put aside for shipping.

Took more time to find a shipper that would give me a reasonable price for door to door service, UPS is out of the question, they quoted me like over $400us.

So found a local shipping guy, got him to give me a good quote and then told him I just had to make arrangements on a good pickup day from the guy with my PC.

So the guy with my pc takes several days to get back to me as he is always super bussy.

So now have to give the shipper the info via email, a week goes by after several emails to shipper, so I make an international call to him and he is all ready to ship now again.

Ok so now I have to get back to the guy with the PC, at this point he is just getting ready to leave for London for a trade show, so tells me he will not be able to ship till he gets back. So he gets almost 2 weeks later and is good to go for a pickup.

Now I can not get the shipper to get back to me again, after another week I say screw it and find another shipper.

Turns out this new shipper is much larger, more professional and about 45% cheaper. At about $160 US Super cheap compared to the other dozen or so I have researched for door to door for the 2 boxes 17kg and 5kg, cpu and heat sink packed together in a separate smaller box.

They require the person at the pickup location to fill out an international invoice and hand it to the shipping companies driver at pickup.

The guy with my PC is bogged down again and he got a hold of me yesterday, said he will get back to me on a good day to have the driver come by for a pickup.

Once he gives me a day, I can tell the shipping company I have lined up to GO!



So no I do not have it yet but very close.


Oh, I didnt even mention the part where I was calling customs offices in both the UK and the USA to get info on stuff like what proper paperwork is required, if there will be any duties from either side etc. And add in the time difference so I often have to call them at 2 or 3am my time, as by time I get home here its super late there.

Its been a pain in the ass, But hope it pays off.

My bud that won the 3rd place rig got his home and loves it, but he only had to ship local.


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Post Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:28 pm   
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If i knew it was going to be this much hassle, i would have collected it on your behalf and let you know how good it was Laughing

Seriously though, i would have!

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Post Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:42 pm   
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That's why it's easier sometimes to do it the ups/fedex/dhl way. They take care of the paperwork, and just pay the duties at the depot when it arrives. But seeing as you won it, and no hurry it's all good Smile


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Post Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:57 am   
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That's why it's easier sometimes to do it the ups/fedex/dhl way. They take care of the paperwork, and just pay the duties at the depot when it arrives. But seeing as you won it, and no hurry it's all good Smile


Ya, would have loved to use UPS, but it would cost about $400 vs this shipping company at $160.

They ship through DHL with DHL insurance so thats all good.


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Hey guys, I finely got the Rig! thats a bit weight off my shoulders. Ready to get back to doing more here on the HQ. Below is my cut and past of the post I put on OC3D as a thank you to those guys.

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I was the 2nd Place winner for last Christmas competition here at OC3D, Later dubbed "Snow White Competition".

First off Let me thank everyone.

1. Tom, Jim and everyone else at OC3D for this competition.

2. The Random number generator for choosing my number!

3. Dougdiamond for helping hook me up with a shipper/courier.

4. Shaun Rowley at Ess-Express [url]"http://www.ecs-iow.co.uk/welcome.htm"[/url] Shipping. If anyone needs something shipped from Toms area on the Isle of Wight, Shaun is your guy.

5. And all the sponsors that donated all the parts for the rigs.



Not only did I win the Rig but also won some little goodies in a separate competition within the main competition where we all created some graphic art for the Snow White competition, Below are my submissions that won me some of the goodies you will see further down the page here.

My Church style Stained Glass with the Sponsors logos.



Poisoned by OC3D apple



Naughty White



OC3D staff hard at work, can you find Tom?




You probably wonder what took so long, Well I had a lot going on, Tom is always very busy and was away for that trade show and the such, and my local shipper on the Isle was in the middle of a move of his business and did not have internet for almost a month. It took quite some time to get to a point where all 3 of us were all ready to go at the same time. Better late than never.

Shipping started with Shaun at Ess-Express (link above) (2 boxes, one with Mobo, Case, SSD and Ram. Second with Cooler, GPU and goodies).

The packages had a bunch of transfers and movement in the 6,000 mile trip from Isle of wight to my house. They had 7 transfers in total, Each transfer to a new vehicle adds to the chance of damage, which there was a little....

Here is condensed version of the trip




Now for some Pics....

DHL van arrives from Los Angeles




The 2 Packages I have been waiting so long for.




Open first little box, Oh whats this? A Gigabyte Ruck sack, feels like something might be inside.




Full of goodies.



Here is what was in the ruck sack.




The first box also had the Cooler, NZXT case with power cables and the GPU.



Here is total contents of box1.



Now On to box2.



Here she is, with some slight damage, but Im happy to have it and not bothered by
the slight esthetic damage.









All 4 bolts were bent in like this one..



Inside






Needed to pick up an adaptor so I could plug my monitor into the PC, also had
to pick up some compound, this is the best they had on hand that day.



Cooler Install






DVI to AVG adapter




Lights on MOBO come alive as she is powered up for first time.



Rear of PC







All the Fans have dust filters, going to come in handy in our area.




Disc Drive cables.




The new kid and the old man.




This is how I would turn on my old PC, by touching these wires together, sometimes my desk fan being turned on or off would activate my PC to fire up.




Yep, she is ugly.




Check out my old video card, notice anything odd?



Yep, thats a fan ripped out of an old xbox 360, mounted to the card as the cards fan died.



Its alive



Ready to go..





And a game play video below, nothing fancy, but only game I got on it right at the moment, she plays smooth and stays cool. Graphic options all set to max, res just at 1024 x 768, maintained fps in High 70s, on Operation Flashpoint Red river.




Thanks OC3D...


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Post Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:07 am   
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congrats once again, wow, it was really worth the wait it if you ask me.. Glad you got it all shipped out and now setup.. Smile I can't believe how much stuff you won, amazing!
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Post Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:41 am   
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forahobby wrote:
congrats once again, wow, it was really worth the wait it if you ask me.. Glad you got it all shipped out and now setup.. Smile I can't believe how much stuff you won, amazing!

You mean... Wanker!

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Post Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:14 am   
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that is awesome congrats may it serve you well


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