anm
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ok - I registered. Waiting for my CC limit to go up. There is so much to buy!
Hi Guys,
I did Import Heavy Items from US ebay through borderlinx in the recent past. Like a Sunfire Receiver and Bose LS 28 full package and another subwoofer Weighing around 21 kgs. For the LS 28 they went by volume and said 70 kgs. So LS 28 I paid around 21K freight and Duty to Borderlinx. I felt it was reasonable but I had a call from DHL that there is price enhancement and I had to pay extra duty. In fact my Receiver and other Subwoofer which had come also faced the same problem. Receiver the price enhancement was almost 5 times.
So I had met the Customs Officer and it went up to the level of Asst. Commisioner and I could atlast convince him with all facts and figures and cleared the consignment.
So all I want to say is that when ever you are told by the courier co. for additional duties you can always meet the customs official and deal it directly.
Another point I want to tell here is that any pilferage in the consignment is only the handy work of the courier guys as all the customs officers are highly dignified !!!!!! and they don't care for a Memory chip or some small fringes.
My consignment was opened 3 times for evaluation once it was in my presence. The practice is that the Authority is bringing the consignment from the bonded stores and opening the same but all physical labour was done by the respective courier co. guys only and repacking is done by the courier guys only with their packing materials and tapes.
In fact I wanted to import one Remote control from ebay the borderlinx quote for the same was triple the cost of the remote.
Hence in a nut shell I think for small Items, co like Aramex may be ok and for larger items we have to depend on co like borderlinx who has a tie up with DHL.
So I am going to try the remote with Aramex.
Any how thanks for the poster of this thread and for others for reading my Novel here.
You can register with a nearby area postal code and then send them an email to update your postal code.
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This message is in response to the response to my post by midnitefreakin. I just would like to emphasis here to his quote that
""If Borderlinx charged extra for your delivery and put u in such a mess that you personally had to go and handle the situation then what was the use of Borderlinx?""
Please note that Border linx might have charged me more with regard to freight but they did not put me in any mess as we are paying the Duty to BL based on the purchase price or the price mentioned by us. Whereas Customs authorities are at their liberty and right to revalue any consignment according to Market or International prices. It is only up to us to meet them with our Purchase proof and convince them otherwise be ready to pay the enhanced duty imposed by the customs authority.
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So it can happen to any consignment shipped by any courier or C&F agency.
I thought I can share this to the forum as this may remove the image that courier agency is trying to put the consumer in a mess with regard to Duties. Not only that if we meet the authorities directly we can avoid the hiked claims by the middle man or so called agents.
hmm I think I know what is the issue. I thought New York is the city, while it is Springfield Gardens. I can't go and change my address now anyways.