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		dhruvkar on May 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? I'm doing the same for extended friends and family. I import and wholesale natural stone slabs for a living, so was right in my wheelhouse. Concur with the pricing, Is say the best deal I got was earlier in and out was $1.90 shipped to the US.

taylorhou on May 14, 2020 [–]

what folks don't seem to understand is if a shipment gets stuck in customs (china or US), you're effectively out whatever that batch cost. a fellow importer has 300k masks stuck in Shanghai customs for over a month already...

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