[Coco] Buying a Dragon from California Digital - Has anyone?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 21 March 2015 18:41:01 Daniel Campos wrote:
> Ed, perfect!
> I don't understand why so much people in US don't like to send things
> internationally! I suffer a lot to get CoCo things on Ebay just
> because people don't like to go to a postal office to send a box.
> When I bought my CoCo3, from a guy in Canada, I paid only $10 for it
> and another $80 for shipping to Brazil. And I got lucky, because if
> that box falls in the hand of a customs guy, I will have paid another
> tax of 60% of the value of the product+shipping. We have to like a lot
> of this hobby to accept this.
>
> Now Ebay has further complicated things because of this global
> shipping program of them, now the tax of 60% that we pay not so often
> to customs in Brazil is paid at source always. We do not have the
> benefit of sampling in customs anymore.
>
> Daniel

That sucks, big time Daniel.  I'd be very unhappy, and my congress 
critters would know it right up front. But I've no clue how that works 
in Brazil except what you tell us.  Is there not some sort of 
politically driven recourse?

> On 21/03/2015 19:07, Zippster wrote:
> > I send things to Canada and all over the world all the time.
> > Only one customs form to fill out.  Your address, theirs, what’s in
> > it and the value.  Import duties are on their end if they apply.
> >
> > - Ed
> >
> >> IMO, with all the triple and quadruplicate paperwork that is needed
> >> to get something across the border into Canada, or vice-versa is
> >> worth $25 to the person filling out all those forms.  Every penny
> >> of it.
> >>
> >> So $70 to Canada sounds about right. Lots and lots of paper has to
> >> go with it.
> >>
> >> Fix your customs, they are killing any chance of any of your
> >> manufacturing facilities ever competing on the world market.
> >>
> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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