WiiCrazy said:kaputnik said:WiiCrazy said:Yeah, anything over €100 finds itself in the customs office
Risky, and some retailers doesn't ship them anyway.
Dealextreme.com always write down the value of the parcel content a lot. Here in Sweden anything above 100 sek (~ €10) gets picked up by the customs. I've ordered sh*tloads of stuff from DX, some quite expensive stuff too, and the only time any of my parcels got picked up they claimed that it's value wasn't declared and asked for a copy of the receipt.
Perhaps ordering one from them (or some other HK webshop, guess all of them do the same thing) would be an alternative.
Well our custom officers in the post center are a bit over cautious. Sometime they don't trust the receipt at all, at one time it happened to me I had bought some comics, books and cds from amazon.co.jp and though the total cost was below the limit my package. I had to go to post center to pick it up. In another one it was just a semi-priced carrying case for my mobile sl45 from germany, it was picked up by the customs too...
Anyway, I've changed my mind, another friend will visit Germany in a couple of weeks and I wanted her to purchase a DSi XL there. It's 177€ there, compared to the current price here (275-300€) it's still cheap
Yeah, that's definitely a better way to do it. And really, you won't get a DS a lot cheaper from HK either if you want it brand new. Maybe you can save €10-20 if you're lucky, but it's not worth the risks involved. And you never know how it's handled during the transport, if your friend brings it home for you that's not an issue either
Got no idea how zealous the custom officers at your airports are, but if that's a problem your friend could just unpack the DS and claim she bought it in Turkey. It's not like it's hard to motivate why you brought your DS when travelling :>
