Paging Merkin cousins

I need something from Amazon.com, but the supplier won't ship outside
the US - anybody can get this and tranship, I'd be grateful.
Drop me a line, the email addy is valid.
Cheers

 

Make sure your US contact doesn't put the value of the goods on the customs
wotsit. Otherwise, you'll have to pay import duty, or whatever the ****
it's called.

DAMHIK, IJD, OK ?

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emailed.

 

Lemme know if Mark decides he doesn't want to commit a felony. Or
whatever.

 

I need something from Amazon.com, but the supplier won't ship outside

If everything else fails (having no friends etc.) the mail-forwarder
http://nybox.com is hereby recommended.

Nybox allows you to bundle packages from multiple vendors, which Nybox
will open and repackage in the smallest possible package and then
forward to you with a very friendly customs value and "Gift" notice on
the front.

They forward small packages by airmail, so please note that any large
volume package (fx. small and light items packed in unreasonable amounts
of styrofoam) aquickly becomes VERY expensive to ship. It might be
possible to have them ship large/heavy items in some other
cheaper/slower way, but you would have to either read the fine print or
contact them to find that out.

You also get a legal US street address, which can be used for ordering
other services in the US which requires one of those, fx. Netflix.

 

Interesting, but I couldn't find anything on their site about customs
declarations. Which is prolly a good thing, because any overt
declaration of something like that would surely court interest from
the Man.

 

Interesting, but I couldn't find anything on their site about customs

Indicating clearly on their webpage that they down-value packages could
possibly mean that ALL packages from them would begin to undergo
scrutiny or might even land them in legal trouble, so that would be a
reasonable explanation as to why that bit of information isn't there.

The custom value my package was marked with was not unreasonably low, so
it didn't grab the attention of the danish custom (who usually are quite
zealous) and the VAT I ended up paying was proportionate to the
indicated custom value. Saved me a bit of money on customs and VAT, but
shipment was a lot more expensive than I thought (due to volume of one
item) so maybe that's some sort of universal VAT-karma?

If you calculate with paying full customs and VAT on any shipment you
can only end up being pleasantly surprised if a package should sneak
through at less expense than you calculated; a sort of applied "plan for
the worst and hope for the best". :-D

 

What's one more or less, between friends?

 

That sounds illegal to me, and if the service is well known, I'm sure
a lot of their stuff gets intercepted.

I've just won this on eBay You-Ess-Ay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/140528721647

For those who don't know the price of good used BMW bits over here,
that is an absolute steal at the price, and my own seat is just
starting to develop a split.

Anyway, the seller has agreed to send it to our friends in Albuquerque
and they'll hang onto it until September, when we're visiting. And
I'll just take it back in my luggage (we go out with two suitcases,
one empty and containing a third, smaller, case, which gives us loads
of space to pack purchases for the return journey). Also, of course,
the tax-free allowance is bigger if you bring the stuff in personally
rather than have it sent.

 

That sounds illegal to me, and if the service is well known, I'm sure

I'm sure you are right and that some laws or other are being broken by
them. My package might have slipped in 'under the radar', but no
interest was shown in it by danish authorities what so ever - and of
course I'm not promising that any other packages will be treated with
the same wonderful indifference.

Nothing in the arrangement prevents an honest citizen from declaring the
true value of the package to the proper authorities to make sure that
correct customs and VAT is being paid, so if it really is an issue for
the receiver, I'm certain that whatever government (s)he is usually
plundered by will appreciate the extra revenues.

I'm not going to pretend to know UK law either, but danish customs and
VAT are a lot more friendly towards used/preowned items than they are
towards new and taxable ones, so it might be worth looking into having
it shipped after all. That way it wouldn't cut into your tax-free
allowance (which isn't that big after all) when returning from 'over there'.