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Re: Customs question...
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lugnet.market.theory
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:36:33 GMT
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I think a lot of people are honesty impaired.
I can think of few instances where the amount of stuff I have ordered abroad
is of anyone's business or interest. A lot of the trading that goes on
here, brickbay, and so on, is essentially inconsequential. I figure if it
gets someone out of having to pay a duty, writing "gift" on the package
cannot be a big deal. I seem to recall a lady in San Diego complaining
about having to pay tax on a package coming from DYA in France, if she had
known the cost of the duty it would have been a deal breaker. You can be
assured that when I made a purchase from there, I asked them to write "gift"
on the package. I think I got a handful of 6097s that way. I certainly would
never buy anything from Europe if there was a lot of extra tax to be charged
on top of it -- or extra shipping to avoid packages large enough to incur
such a penalty.
Why make it more complicated than it has to be?
I bet hundreds of people are reading this thread and snickering, thinking "I
can't beleive that people worry it to this degree. Just mark it a gift."
-- Hop-Frog
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| richard marchetti wrote in message ... (...) abroad (...) This message baffles me. When I read the first line I assumed Richard was going to say that one should not write gift on the customs form when it ain't. However, he's saying the opposite. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| You and that lady from SD both goofed - no need to lie at all, DYA doesn't have to mark it anything but merchandise. LEGO is a Plastic Construction Toy, which is duty-free incoming to the US. I have received bills from Customs 2-3 times in the past, (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) My understanding is that it's also appropriate in certain cases to mark neither gift nor merchandise (nor commercial sample, of course). I think a trade falls under this category, and for those of us who don't consider ourselves to be (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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