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Re: Mailing out of US....
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lugnet.market.shipping
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Sat, 26 Jun 1999 02:56:35 GMT
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Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote in message
<37706C09.80DF8354@compuserve.com>...
> Julie Krenz wrote:
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> > I don't include an invoice type note in foreign orders, since I check
> > "gift" on the customs slip.(Even though I feel like the customs police are
> > gonna haul me away every time I do that.) I figure my buyers can refer to • our
> > emails to be sure of what they got, I know they appreciate it.
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> You may want to reconsider doing this. Check out Matt Chiles shipping
> rules on his auction and Vault pages for some reasons why. One is that
> it has been known to happen for Customs in the UK (maybe other places
> too) to sieze a package marked "gift" when it is not, and if that
> happens the buyer may never see his item again, or if he does he gets to
> pay extra on top of what he would have had to pay as duty. Personally I
> do not mark packages "gift", and I put the actual (retail, not
> necessarily auction) value on the package too. No buyer has ever
> complained, although I know one guy in Japan got stuck with duty on his
> package. I have had to pay GST on incoming Lego sometimes too, it's just
> part of the purchase price.
What do you do in the case of trades? Retail value I guess?
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| (...) You may want to reconsider doing this. Check out Matt Chiles shipping rules on his auction and Vault pages for some reasons why. One is that it has been known to happen for Customs in the UK (maybe other places too) to sieze a package marked (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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