On 16-4-2012 20:08, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 16/04/2012 01:39 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 4/13/2012 0:49, Invisible wrote:
>>> country. Or that it wasn't Amazon themselves selling it...)
>>
>> I've never known Amazon to sell something through a third party that
>> wasn't marked that way. What was it, out of curiosity?
>
> It was a shirt. Just an ordinary red shirt. I /assumed/ it was in
> Amazon's warehouse just down the road from me. But when I ordered it,
> they shipped it from South Korea. I had no idea they were going to do
> that. I certainly had no idea I was going to be charged 50% again for
> the import duty. Obviously if I'd known that, I wouldn't have bothered
> purchasing it.

last year I had an interesting problem with thinkgeek. They do not take 
care of the taxes themselves, but they know how much it is and it is 
taken into account, so you know what you will be paying. Except that the 
invoice is in $ and I pay in €. They ship with UPS, so UPS has to do the 
custom things. Which is also easy, they know how much it is so they can 
convert. Here is the catch: between the day I ordered and the time they 
have to pay our government the conversion might change, so they need a 
temporary buffer and they might loose a bit, so they will have to charge 
you afterwards. In short they take a small financial risk and they want 
some payment for that. About 2% or so from the tax if I am not mistaken. 
I assume you see what is coming: there is a minimum amount of €10. So my 
actual order was about one cent wrong to their advantage and I had to 
pay €10 extra for two shirts because of some silly company rule of UPS.
Or at least this is what I could understand had happened when I mailed 
and phoned UPS later for an explanation.

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