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Hey everyone,

India Today is a popular weekly English magazine which is available for sale all over India. This week they have published a 11 page article titled "CRYPTO MANIA" which is focused on Bitcoin and crypto in general and it has been mentioned in their cover as well  :D

In [REFERENCE] Magazines & Newspapers with Bitcoin Articles (Pre 2009 - 2019) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5148433.msg58523284#msg58523284) thread, I posted an interest check for Group Buy and there has been some descent interest for that.

I just bought the magazine 2 days back and it had pretty good information. Here are some pics :

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Price :

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The Price of each magazine is incredibly low at $1.5 per book. Please note that, though the price of each book is $1.1-1.2, withdrawal charges to fiat is included, hence I'm charging $1.5.

As of now, there were interest for 13 books from 3 members which I will be able to get them from the local shop. But if there is interest for 50-100 books, I can try to contact India Today office for a bulk order.

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Shipping :

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It would be easier if I'm able to ship all the US books to a trusted person in US like minerjones or Mopar for reshipment and the EU books to a trusted person located in EU. For example, if we are able to reach 50 books for US and 50 for EU, it will cost just a single payment of ~$30 or so to ship from my country to US and another $30 for EU. Though final shipment prices are subject to change.

With this, each person can pay just an additional cost of $30/50 books ~ $0.6 shipping fee per book and then they can discuss further shipment with the reshipper in your country.

No one likes to pay $25 shipping just for $5-$10 worth of books  :P

If you are able to pay an additional of $1-$2 per order, I will be able to buy some envelopes for safe shipment  :)

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Format for ordering :

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Forum Name - Number of Books - Country

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Donation Address and Payment Address:

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Donation address : bc1qzv569zsyn2f9zjhrvlp9m87av4gj0cw75rplpg

Payment address : bc1qj8065rw9xn492738pxcmf7xrra6x8vl92tu577

I accept stablecoins like USDT, USDC and BUSD for payment as well and other popular cryptos like LTC, XMR, ETH and BNB as well. Please PM me for payment address if anyone is willing to pay through these cryptos other than Bitcoin.

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Orders :

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aoluain              - 4 books           - EU
bitdexter            - 20 books           - EU
Iced                   - 5 books           - EU
MoparMiningLLC  - 2 books          - USA
Anon #1             - 20 books        - USA
2stout                 - 2 books          - USA
Mitchell               - 25 books        - USA
blucepheus          - 10 books        - USA
jackbauercsgo     - 2 books          - USA
sweeteye            - 4 books          - USA
Dernoste              - 4 books          - EU
TheNovemberMan  - 4 books         - USA
bitbollo                 - 3 books         - USA
Hookzup1              - 2 books        - USA
Fattcatt                 - 10 books       - USA

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Special thanks to Mitchell (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=113670) for the Group Buy thread template.

Happy to reship for any US customers :D

orum Name - Number of Books - Country

MoparMiningLLC - 2 (one for me and one for The_Crypto_Kid) - USA


let me know once shipping is figured out so I can send one pymt for both the magazine and shipping.

Thanks for the reshipment service minerjones.

As of now, 35 books have been ordered. The book will be available for sale till Dec 5, 2021 AFAIK. So, let me know of orders before November 30th so that it will be easier for me to purchase.

2 please, Thx!

Great, thanks for the heads up HH

I am in the E.U and can confirm 4 copies please.

I can also organise re-shipping to any other E.U country or if someone else with
bigger trust wants to do it I'm ok with that too.

Note: Regardless of the quantity I might (most likely) have to pay import duty for
items bought outside the E.U.

Iced - 5 copies - Belgium (EU)

blucepheus - 10 books - U.S. - via MJ

Thank you!

2 for me please, via MJ - US

Mine via MJ as well, Thx!

Bitdexter 4 mags - confirmed -

USA

4 please!
Shipping to MJ as well~

Updated the list till sweeteye.. Will close the group buy with 100 books or by November 30th whichever comes first so that we can proceed to payment and it will take some ~3 days for myself to receive the books and probably I will ship before 10th of December to both US and EU  :)

Thank You very much for the help!

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@EU members, all the books ordered will be sent to @aoluain for reshipment  :) Regarding import duty, I think you guys can work together and get into a solution before I ship from my side.

Dernoste - 4 copies - (EU)

Id like to edit my order - 20 books - to EU

4 for me please!

Shipped to MJ.

3 copies for me , shipped to MJ.

to everyone:
I am available for reshipping in EU/ ITALY  
(I will ship from another EU country, fees to be determined with EACH shipment/user/number of copies).
Other European Location/North Africa, please send a message!

I think he has a person he is shipping all EU orders to already

2 for me please also shipped to mj thank you for offering
I'll send payment once shipping is figured out 

I'd like 10 please. Shipping to Minerjones.

*EDIT.....Make that only 5 magazines ... sorry

thank you @MoparMiningLLC I have completely missed that post ::) .

OP in any case my order of 3 copies can be delivered to MJ (I have already other items to be reshipped in EU).

Hey bitbollo, added you to the USA lot.

With Fattcatt order, the Group Buy is CLOSED as we have reached 100+ books already. Each book approximately weighs around 250 gms and 84 books have been ordered from US and 33 from EU. Hence, the total weight for shipping will be ~ 20-25 kgs for US and ~8-9 kgs for EU. I will be sending in 2-3 lots of 7.5-10 kg each to the US and 1 lot of 8-9 kg to EU as the max shipment is limited to 19kg AFAIK.

Based on Postage Estimates (https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/calculatePostage.aspx), shipment for each book comes around $5 for US and $2.5 for EU including tracking. You can do the math yourself based on the total books ordered.

If it's lesser when I go straight to the PO, I will repay for each orders. Here is the sheet and total payment details for each user:

https://i.imgur.com/0tqjwW3.png

If anyone willing to pay through any other popular crypto other than Bitcoin, please PM me for payment address. Once you have paid for your order (which I've mentioned in the sheet), please send your txID so that I can add you to the paid member list!

Once everyone has paid, I will buy the 117 books and ship them to @minerjones and @aoluain for reshipment in their respective countries. If you have any doubt regarding payment, please PM me so that we can sort it out  :)

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Update regarding orders : I spoke with India Today Head Office (as this was a large order) regarding shipment to me and they will get me a quote by tomorrow. Once I pay them, shipment should take 3-5 days to reach my destination!

why is shipping $5 per book? above you said that 50 books shipped to the US would be ~$30 so how is 84 books going to cost $420 to ship?

Not complaining about the price - just trying to understand.

Yup, even I thought of the same. The above one was my estimate as I used to send small shipments to various parts of world till now and after a surge in interest for group buy I called PO and asked. They asked me to make an estimate through this link : https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/calculatePostage.aspx

Each book weighs an approximate of 200-250 grams (120 pages). 250*84 books ~ 21 kg approx. For shipping 11 kg, it is ~$120-$150 (final charges might differ based on the location where I ship to in USA, hence posting a rough estimate)...

So $300 approx for shipping 84 books. It's $3.5 for 1 book on an average whereas it's less for shipping to EU. I'm asking an additional $1.5 per book just in case if they are higher. I will share the invoice copy image in this thread and if they are less, I will repay whatever extra I have with me. They are a govt office and they don't accept credit/debit cards, hence I need to pay through cash. So I need to have some additional cash with me before I reach PO.

Just to recheck, I tried ordering Citadel21 mag which ships from US. They charge me a shipping fee of $8/book and hence I came to a conclusion that shipping in the India Post website is approximately correct.

P.S Shipping through private services like DHL and UPS costs $250 for 9 kg whereas 11kg parcel costs only $120-$150 through govt shipments.

understood - my txn id is 81e9cbc05017b62c5af769de9163e4306066662c3f605b009c7ea8c83a10140e

Thanks for organising this H_H
payments sent to both addresses:

96bf4af32a508c7f15e6c9418623882fcd9d916c898c763ef1c4ef9b5c2f08b8
af9373642e9d0693d9bf3645921bc871fc58a7e8b43914613719677224076a26

I will send a PM with postal details.

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In relation to reshipping to @bitdexter @Iced & @Dernoste I will send some PM's
requesting addresses and details for payment.

As I mentioned before there will be a TAX charge on the items received from
Heisenberg_Hunter because he is shipping from outside the E.U, that will be
23%, some E.U countries charge 19% others 25% so its average.
Luckily because the value of the items including shipping costs is under €150
there should not be an EXCISE DUTY charge.

More info here > https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/buying-goods-online-coming-non-european-union-country_en

For US orders, I've a minor workaround to reduce the cost of shipping/book. If I'm able to ship the large orders of 25 books and 20 books separately to their respective locations, the total weight will be reduced to ~10kg around for 39 books and will cost $120 instead of $420. $120/40 will cost shipment charges of $3 per book instead of $5.

P.S will repay the extra $4 which @MoparMiningLLC paid yesterday if this solutions works. Also these are tentative prices and final price might be lower if I go straight to the PO and if I have an exact weight.

EDIT : I will be doing separate shipment for Mitchell and Anon member who contacted me through PM. With this, the shipment of price per book has been reduced to $3 instead of $5 for US members. Here is the updated sheet for payment :

https://i.imgur.com/Q3MucY6.png

39 books will be shipped to @minerjones, 33 books to @aoluain, 25 to @Mitchell and 20 to anon. Also, received a quote from India Today and paying them by tomorrow for all the 117 books.

Is it too late to grab one of these? I can grab one from mj

Sorry, but it's already late. Though, 12 books haven't been paid still so will wait for confirmation from them for a day otherwise you can get them  :)

Regarding orders, here is the final list :

https://i.imgur.com/7oZffKH.png

Received confirmation from bitbollo for payment. @blucepheus and @jackbauercsgo let me know if you are willing to pay for all 12 or any reduction in quantities required. If yes, @selassiesoildier can grab some.

I've paid for all the books and received them today in great condition  :) :


I will start preparing the boxes of 39 to minerjones, 33 to aoluain, 25 to Mitchell and 20 to the Anon now and ship them by tomorrow morning. Will share the invoice of shipment and tracking once I go there  :)

I’ll be sending payment today. Thank you!

Here is an update to record that I have received the parcel from @Heisenberg_Hunter today
and strangely enough no import duty was applied to it, all good. I will send PM's to my gang
later this evening.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dPcQEzg7YqY/YcDaerd3fDI/AAAAAAAAA2E/RlVbTqC7le8OorPcgtUdQY9y8qsKkeMhACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1640028793938401-0.png

Are any available?

Thanks

I think you had to reserve them when he was doing the pre-order. thought someone who ordered more than one might be willing to part with a copy.

@selassiesoildier if you check out the spreadsheet earlier in the thread you will
see who bought in bulk, like 10 or 20 and are in your area, US or EU and they might
be able to sort you!

Thank you kindly

Magazines received in good standing.
Will start shipping them out tomorrow :D

sweet!