I recently purchased a SE/30 grayscale neck board and harness off of Yahoo Auctions using the Buyee proxy buying service. Everything went fine until the board and harness reached the Buyee warehouse. I got an email saying they were no longer allowed to ship items with semiconductors substrates to the US. I questioned the term semiconductor substrates and was told the board had them. The board does have 3 transistors and a few diodes but I don’t consider them semiconductor substrates. To me a semiconductor substrate is something like a wafer. I asked them again about this and was told my board contained semiconductors substrates and I had 3 options. 1 Dispose of the shipment. 2 Remove the substrates and ship the rest of the items. 3 send the items to a local address. They would not allow the items to be returned to the seller. I settled for option 2 which is to remove the substrates and ship the rest of the items. I could not get them to tell me if that meant to just remove the transistors and diodes or discard the entire board and only ship the harness. The board is current in transit to the US and should be here on Tuesday. Let’s see what I receive.
Manuel
Manuel
