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Are these as bad as the Chibson Les Pauls?
Would they do this if shipping to the US or is it a Denmark thing? I've actually never heard of stuff like this until now.
These look pretty good in these photos. I just wish they didn't have such a flat butt. That looks wonky.
Typically, no. The USA has all sorts of funky trade agreements, so you'd have to look up the current tarrif laws, but we do not get hosed nearly as bad as our European counterparts in receiving imports. There is still that chance that something will get mislabeled or misidentified and descend into customs hell, but in my experience with shipping a dozen or so things to Europe [especially Germany], it is pretty much a given that anything shipped to Europe will be confiscated by customs, who will invariably claim the thing is worth big bucks and demand ten or a hundred times the tarrifs that would be fair. As my most extreme example, three $5 cables [why I had to pay $50 to ship $15 worth of cables internationally is another story] were falsely identified as fiber optic sensors, and then appraised by customs at $12kUS each, resulting in a customs bill of $10kUS. This happened years ago and I still have not figured out how to successfully dispute it. I told the recipient that they had to either help me out or just buy their own cables, of which they chose the latter.
Well this extended procedure is most likely due to the fact that the seller has stated an unreasonably low item value.That is incredibleDidn't know the Customs customs (?) differ so much within the EU - it is a Customs union first and foremost. Here in Fi Customs procedure goes as follows: 1) I get a tracking number from the shipper, 2) I check when the shipment has crossed the border and landed at the Customs physically (i.e. the same moment), 3) I log in onto the Customs website and declare the item myself, 4) within seconds I get the amount due to Customs (VAT and the tariff itself) and a link to pay it via internet banking service, 5) I pay the amount due, 6) the item is released for delivery. This takes about 5 minutes total
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Now I guess there might certainly be a more strict process regarding goods from, say China, but stuff from the US and Japan have always gone through like breeze
EDIT: And of course it may not work as easily if the item value is suspect - better use the correct value at all times![]()
customs payed, package is on its way again! total customs payed: 107$ + 25$ processing fee (sigh).
25% VAT and 3.7% duty + 25$ processing fee. Yay europe!
The danish postal system has recieved a lot of criticism about being outdated - most of this critique is based on their love affair with physical lettering. All this could have been sorted out about 2 days earlier, if it weren't for the fact that they insist that all messages from them has to be via. physical mail.
customs payed, package is on its way again! total customs payed: 107$ + 25$ processing fee (sigh).
25% VAT and 3.7% duty + 25$ processing fee. Yay europe!