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Re: Customs question...
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:23:30 GMT
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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, I simply print out the
Customs info for that classification, and send it back with the bill. One time,
someone marked "Plastic Toy" on the customs form, so they billed me. I sent
back the classification printout from the Customs site and noted that they had
sent me a "Plastic CONSTRUCTION Toy".
Details - http://news.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=7894
Last time I got a huge shipment from overseas from an AFOL, I simply asked him
to note the classification # on the Customs forms for his country.
Bottom line, that lady got screwed, she should be asking for a return of the
duty fees.
richard marchetti wrote:
> I think a lot of people are honesty impaired.
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> 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.
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> Why make it more complicated than it has to be?
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> 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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