I've ordered about 20 ants over the last months, duty was always around €50 to €30 and the last ones were free. I can set myself to seeing this as being lucky for not having to pay much.

However, because the costs have never been high, everybody counts on them to stay low. The big problem here is that Bitmain decided to ship them out as $900 value WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE ABOUT IT!!
They should know this brings extra costs for their customers, so why didn't they tell? Probably because they were afraid for getting less orders.

I personally would still have ordered with them, but then at least I knew I could count on additional costs which I could include in my calculations.

The problem is not them changing it, the problem is them not telling us.

Shit i'm screwed, i have 18 S1's coming in tomorrow with DHL. UPS last time was 80€ for 3 S1's, i hope DHL is not to expensive, or it was my last direct order via bitmain themselfs!

WHY DID BITMAIN CHANGE COURIER WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE???

Their ORDER website states:

Antminer S1 currently mine at about 0.02776860 BTC per day without overclocking.
(Current Difficulties: 3,129,573,175)
*Pool luck may increase or decrese the mining rate.

It depends on the country, for example in my country customs don't care at all about what inside the package, they just call me and ask what inside and "some computer hardware" is good enough answer for them.
So Bitmain why did you send the packages with the value declared even higher than the current real price without letting the customers know?