MOTM and Australian customs (again)

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow Paul 'n' y'all.

At 10:57 PM 06/09/99 +1000, Paul Perry wrote:
>On an encouragig note, I just got a secondhand TEK 
>scope from a US listmember via DHL, with a 
>declared value of $500, packed in (the shame!) an
>Imac box.. and, they delivered to the door with nary a 
>mention of duty, sales tax, custom forms, or anything.
>So, I think it remains a crapshoot.. Good luck, everyone!

Yes this is the other point. Customs don't have the resources to check
everything that comes in by personal mail. They pick packages out  on a
random basis. But you don't know which will get hit and which won't. I'm
told about 20% get hit. You do indeed takez yuz chances. If you do  get
hit, it will hurt your bottom line such that your wallet will be left
smoking. You can be looking at twice the amount in US dollars.

A friend of mine once brought in several thousand (lots I don't remember
how many exactly) LEDs. Customs were going to slug him veritable shit-loads
for them as electronic components. He went down there and convinced them
that they were in fact, little tiny light bulbs and therefore incurred only
2%.  You can get lucky some times but you have to fight every inch of the
way if you get stung.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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