"Toxic" Pencils (It’s not what you think)

General Mechanical Pencil Discussion
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I gave them the invoice which seller provided me, and attached the screenshots of the internet price of the items which they requested.

We are not doing any kind of illegal activity and since I am an individual and not a commercial entity they may let it pass with the duty and the taxes.

Also, last time when the sender marked the package as a gift and declared a custom value, the customs calculated the value of the package themselves with comparable items(maybe) and asked me to pay $230 for pencils worth $250.

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that’s the problem I guess. either they don’t recognize the collector’s value at all (then you go really cheap), or they really look up on internet and see those ridiculous offers from ulfesharpe and so on and start to calculate astronomique totals …

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Where are you from? Here in Brazil customs is very strict.

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WHAT? That’s nearly a 100% markup. That’s robbery.

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Yes, or they just randomly calculate the value based upon similar items imported earlier

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I am from India. I have heard a lot about Brazil

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Yeah, I had to send the items back. Normally, duty + taxes are around 50-60%.

I made a post few months back that I want to buy Spoke 4, and if someone could help me with shipping. If I buy the pencil from the website, it would cost me around $135. $45 for the pencil, $45 shipping and then $45 custom duty & taxes.

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A 200% markup because of customs and shipping is absurd

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Customs released the package today after I provided them the invoice and screenshots of the site where pencils were listed.

Going to cost me $800 or so for pencils worth $1550

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