That´s a good idea and I start with it.
If the admins don´t want/like it please delete it.
If somebody wants to know the reason maybe I´ll explain it later I don´t want to write the hole story here.
It´s pretty clean and proper assembled (the last 12 years I built every(!) Pass/FW amp).
This VFET has Eichman RCA Connectors and better diy solid aluminum feets.
My costs were 595,- € and I sell it for this plus shipping plus(!!!) a donation to diyaudio.
It depends of the donation who will get it 🙂
Please send me an offer per PM and I will forward it to the admins cause of the donation.
Again if the admins disagree with that please delete it.
Kind regards
Andreas
If this were acceptable, I’d be interested in purchasing one of these units in the US and donate to the diy audio community. As a beginner with only one build this far it wouldn’t matter if it was already put together, as it would probably be a cleaner build. Please delete this if it’s not ok to post here. I did not win either drawing and would love to see how the
v-fet compares to my other papa designs (nak pa-7 , aca mono blocks).
Regards,
Mike
v-fet compares to my other papa designs (nak pa-7 , aca mono blocks).
Regards,
Mike
This morning I received an email from the diyaudiostore saying there was a delivery exception and I should contact Fedex. The tracking is still showing it stuck in France with operational delays. I'm guessing that was an automated email? If duties are owed will it say something different?
I received the same message.
The phone call repeats the same information you can read when tracked, not new information
The phone call repeats the same information you can read when tracked, not new information
Don't eat the costs personally. There must be a better way. You already already contribute so much time and effort to the boards, store, and special projects like these.
Hi, I am the a...hole you are shouting about. ( Hifisentralen). I have legal, but personal reasons that I do not have to share. You can not know about health, economy, future plans. I also paid extra charity. I can keep the amp for a couple of years, and my son may sell it when it has became a collectors item. Anyway, the amp will ( and shall) deserve a good home serving joy and musical happiness. I do still concider, but please keep untasteful comments for yourself.
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As to the shipping issues, it appears to be a systematic one with FedEx, I have an unrelated package coming from Italy, and it's been sitting there for days while showing it would get here by Monday, now that date is gone and it hasn't moved.
Just wanted to let you people know it's not just the VFET package, or a store issue, it looks to be a FE problem.
Just wanted to let you people know it's not just the VFET package, or a store issue, it looks to be a FE problem.
Thank you Mr. Jason for clarification.
I am not worried about US shipments with custom duties pre-paid.
I had previously ordered some speaker drivers (for Tarkus speaker) from Parts express which also had duties pre-paid. That was very convenient and gets to me without issue.
But for non-prepaid duty shipments, once it gets stuck in customs there are various charges and taxes + plus they open the box to assess the value of goods (arbitrarily pull some value from their brains) and dont re-pack it properly.
So I will have to wait and see. if lucky (like winning the lottery) I will get all the chassis items (provided they dont misplace screw packets , etc)
So keeping my fingers crossed
I am not worried about US shipments with custom duties pre-paid.
I had previously ordered some speaker drivers (for Tarkus speaker) from Parts express which also had duties pre-paid. That was very convenient and gets to me without issue.
But for non-prepaid duty shipments, once it gets stuck in customs there are various charges and taxes + plus they open the box to assess the value of goods (arbitrarily pull some value from their brains) and dont re-pack it properly.
So I will have to wait and see. if lucky (like winning the lottery) I will get all the chassis items (provided they dont misplace screw packets , etc)
So keeping my fingers crossed
Thanks for that extra detail, my tracking also dropped the expected delivery date and says "No scheduled delivery date available at this time." Certainly a FEDEX issue and not a DIYAUDIO or Modushop/HIFI 2000 issue.
It recently took 2 weeks for my ACA kit chassis to pass through Charles de Gaul, which was then road freighted to Greece and sent to Abu Dabai?, before being sent to Australia. It's a choke (joke) in Fedex's system. All up 27 days from con-note generation to delivery. Parts from the US were on-time.
I don't think Fed Ex have a clue as to what they are doing, I just received a tracking update from them to say my chassis will be delivered here tomorrow in Australia (10th Aug), but it is still showing as being in Paris on the 9th Aug.
They seem to do well in the US, but Int shipping I'll take DHL all day long, at least coming to the US, cause that's all I know.
They're usually quite reliable and their service is good but for some reason something is going on in Paris and all the shipments are being delayed
I expect we'll make a small profit on these 180 VFET amps, so that we can make a nice donation.
The store makes (IMHO) a fair and reasonable profit on everything else it sells. This has allowed us to invest in better systems, staff and processes this year (all ongoing...), which is important so that the store and the forum can continue to operate and people don't burn out.
In this case, you can ignore the "contact the carrier part".
There are hundreds of carriers in the world, and each one has dozens of unique error messages. We use a platform called Aftership to coalesce all those messages into half a dozen standard message types. One of them is "delivery exception" and that message presently says "please contact the carrier".
Normally that would make sense, but in this case for an "operational delay" it doesn't. I will update the generic advice to make that clear.
As Gianluca has mentioned and I can attest to, FedEx International Economy from Italy is normally an exceptionally fast, very reliable and incredibly well priced service. Pre-COVID 80% of orders to the US would arrive in 2-3 business days. During COVID that increased to 5-7. I'm sure post-COVID things will go back to normal. It might be years away.
Trying to manage international logistics during the last 18 months has been an "interesting" experience. When COVID hit, it was total chaos with simply not enough planes to ever handle the backlog of packages. A lot of parcels ended up shipping by ocean instead, usually turning up 70-110 days later. The carriers won't pay out for insurance claiming that packages are not lost but delayed, and everyone is claiming force majeure. The goods news is that it was true and in almost every case packages did eventually turn up.
As for this situation, as TT has interestingly mentioned, it looks like there is a major jam-up in Paris at the moment. We'll just need to chill out for a week. FedEx is a good carrier with their brand on the line, they will sort it out eventually. There isn't anything that can be done but have patience at this stage.
Server money is prostate money
Hi, Jason,
I was the winner of most donations auction for Andreas P-channel V-FET amp. I was unable to donate to any of your causes with Paypal. Feel free to distribute my $200 ($50+$100+$50) donation to any of the causes, and remove some but not all of my fanatic privileges from contributing to your server.
Hail the server!
Although, I feel excused since I work with the diagnosis of prostate tissue samples daily as a bioengineer, but that is a different matter. That is also the reason why I really could use a prebuilt amp to not destroy something beautiful as a complete electronics amateur.
Hi, Jason,
I was the winner of most donations auction for Andreas P-channel V-FET amp. I was unable to donate to any of your causes with Paypal. Feel free to distribute my $200 ($50+$100+$50) donation to any of the causes, and remove some but not all of my fanatic privileges from contributing to your server.
Hail the server!
Although, I feel excused since I work with the diagnosis of prostate tissue samples daily as a bioengineer, but that is a different matter. That is also the reason why I really could use a prebuilt amp to not destroy something beautiful as a complete electronics amateur.