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Apr 21, 2015, 02:11 PM
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Tell me your customs charges sob stories.
I've never been hit with a customs charge, I figure I've been lucky. What's the worst you've had?
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:20 PM
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I was hit with a $100+ charge on a Stowa once. They shipped it with an alligator strap and the proper forms weren't filled out. The charge was about the same price as the strap.
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:23 PM
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I once bought a Pulsar (I think) Railroad Homage for about £25. When the admin fee was factored in the customs charge was also £25....
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:42 PM
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They seized my Seiko Cocktail Time that i bought from Chino. They told me it was a fake watch and i would have to pay a huge fine and probbably go to jail if i did not alow them to destroy the watch. The fines of importing fake goods in to the EU can be astronomous. Word is/was that Seiko asked to seize every JDM Seiko coming from Japan cos they don't like us to buy them. Since that time the big 3 stopped shipping JDM Seiko's to the EU (as can be seen on their site's). I think they lost a lot of watches to customs. They (Chino) refunded my cash and lost a watch...
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by
I-B
They seized my Seiko Cocktail Time that i bought from Chino. They told me it was a fake watch and i would have to pay a huge fine and probbably go to jail if i did not alow them to destroy the watch. The fines of importing fake goods in to the EU can be astronomous. Word is/was that Seiko asked to seize every JDM Seiko coming from Japan cos they don't like us to buy them. Since that time the big 3 stopped shipping JDM Seiko's to the EU (as can be seen on their site's). I think they lost a lot of watches to customs. They (Chino) refunded my cash and lost a watch...
Whoa, that's not good at all! When was that?
I'd noticed that Chino had stopped shipping to the EU, but Seiya still does. I bought my Alpinist from him a few months ago and have a SARB035 km the mail at the moment (although now I'm worried!!!)
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by
whatmeworry
Whoa, that's not good at all! When was that?
I'd noticed that Chino had stopped shipping to the EU, but Seiya still does. I bought my Alpinist from him a few months ago and have a SARB035 km the mail at the moment (although now I'm worried!!!)
i thinkk it's a little over a year ago now. I made a thread obout it (in Dutch) in the old place, including the e-mails and conversations between me and custom's. They bully'd and threatened me. Stupid EU...
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:50 PM
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I won a Brathwait watch and three straps in a compeition, but as the sender kindly (and appropriately) listed each item at its full retail price - totalling $200 - I landed a customs fee of nearly £35 to get my free stuff! I didn't object to paying my taxes but did object to the £7.50 'processing fee' ParcelForce charge to read the customs label and multiply the total by 0.2...
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Apr 21, 2015, 02:58 PM
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Apr 21, 2015, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by
whatmeworry
I once bought a Pulsar (I think) Railroad Homage for about £25. When the admin fee was factored in the customs charge was also £25....
Isn't there some kind of threshold that has to be passed? Or it that for duty but not VAT?
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Apr 21, 2015, 05:02 PM
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£18 Parcelforce handling fee with each parcel. They had over £200 off me in a week recently for three parcels with duty, VAT and fees...