Buggah. I was hoping you were Hilo-Side.

Can't wait to see news on units beginning to ship.

OP, does the $129 shipping fee cover shipping the unit(s) safely to Australia?

Are you on track with meeting your October November shipping schedule?

Thanks,

Hey Phoenix, what island are you on? If you're on Oahu, we've got all the major islands covered except for Maui because I'm at the top of the island chain.  

Yeah, I'm finalizing my Solar PV install with Haleakala Solar. Gonna have to try to deal with our gnarly electricity rates somehow. I also bought mining shares with ASICMiner to hedge against hardware depreciation & mining power loss due to network growth. May have to shift to pure mining pool shares once I build up enough BTC & if it becomes too expensive to run my mining gear on order.

BTW, I was interested in KnC or BitFury. If you feel like selling a share or some shares I'd be up for committing $1.5-2K to help pay for one of your miners. I'd help with electricity, of course. I was going to do my own pre-order on a Mercury soon but since you have a early pre-order I wouldn't mind helping out on the costs you're already committed to. No pressure, just something I thought of right now.

energy cost in Alabama is above the national average

the cheapest cost of living when giving extra weight to utility prices would be in texas and oklahoma

Yes. It's .08/kwh here in Houston.

Actually, I'm a bit protected from Pele's fury, as there are a few hills in between... (Barring a shift in the tradewinds)as for the Doggone little bastard Coqui Frogs... Yeah, they are seasonal fortunately this high in altitude, they die back every winter. It's common for us to get 45-50 degrees(F) at times during the night. The orchids love it, my bones don't.

This thread has gone to shit.  I guess it's because there really isn't anything to talk about until September.

Yes the $129 is for shipping, but remember you will be paying a 10% customs duty on the value of the goods at the time of purchase and another $50 customs fee on every package.

Also, remember that the customs duty is on the value of the goods at time of purchase so if the Australian dollar drops any more than you pay even more for duty.

Whats the customs fees on shipping to the US?

That's not quite accurate. The entire VAT will be at checkout. Customs doesn't make a business of holding packages "Hostage" for duty fees, as most international shippers require all that at checkout, and are paid well in advance of arriving to customs. In this case, It's UPS, and I know that's their policy. http://www.ups-scs.com/international/customs_broker.html
If you had actually bought a miner from KNC, you would not have missed the VAT section