You are absolutely right that I am known to be clueless at times, but I was more referring to if someone in North America purchased directly from Bitmain, they would not be subject to 20% VAT and it would be cheaper than to purchase this one used. It seems almost too obvious to say it, but VAT (or any tax for that matter) does NOT add value to a used product. It doesn't matter what
you paid (in reference to a seller), it matters what it would cost me to purchase new as reference to pricing. Also, BitClouder charges ~$0.11/kW which seems pretty high for hosting. You are also right that I didn't know BitClouder was in Romania. Isn't that where the Colosseum is?
In EU paid VAT still add more sales value to used product.
For anyone who has bought them, wants his money for VAT back.
Because everyone is paid the higher price for the miner purchase , the local market price is just higher than in US .
And no matter that it is cheaper to US market, for the purchase of used goods must be pay VAT if you exports
used miner outside the EU.
VAT also must paid from shipping costs, and it makes the miners expensive. You can not lie about the shipping costs.
And although the Americans accept that they do not have to pay VAT for the purchase miner , they are worried about any BTC , which miner produces.
Must worried, how to declare BTC income, miner sales income and so on.
Finally, it is a more as 20% , that we pay with VAT.
