How much import tax do you pay?

fusion008 · Post by **fusion008** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:23 am

Hi, i want to get a PSP Value Pack and Ridge Racers because im pretty impatient, how much import tax do you pay if you bought from lik sang in the UK?

Thanks in Advance :)

Mawdsley · Post by **Mawdsley** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:49 am

I got it with RR and Vampire Chronicle. This was also at the height of the price gouging. From Play-Asia with TNT shipping I had to pay £86.37.

pdc · Post by **pdc** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:54 am

£86 is pretty steep...

GameChoice.com.hk will mark down the value of the PSP and mark the item as a 'repair'. This is an attractive proposition for the poor amongst us :)

Mawdsley · Post by **Mawdsley** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:59 am

pdc wrote:£86 is pretty steep...

GameChoice.com.hk will mark down the value of the PSP and mark the item as a 'repair'. This is an attractive proposition for the poor amongst us :)

I got hit on my DS also.

weak · Post by **weak** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:42 am

86 is indeed crazy.

i have to pay no tax for games when they're send via normal airmail. when i use ups i do have to pay even for games, last time about 10 € or something for one game.

airmail is amazingly fast for me so i stick with that (i had my bad experiences too, but overall it's the better choice imho).

MarfPSP · Post by **MarfPSP** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:41 am

£75 for me, got mine at release too, from Lik-Sang delivered by UPS.

They asked for payment on the door.

wenmi · Post by **wenmi** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:23 pm

i had to pay 50€ for my psp import (i live in austria)

fusion008 · Post by **fusion008** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:47 pm

wenmi wrote:i had to pay 50€ for my psp import (i live in austria)

was it a standard pack or a value pack and did you get a game for it aswell?

wenmi · Post by **wenmi** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:27 am

it was only a valuepack. i think it was declared as 300$ or something.

i ordered some games at liksang later and nearly never had to pay for customs. only once. it was about 15 or 20 € (pretty much compared to the price of a game)

Deaddreamer · Post by **Deaddreamer** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:18 am

I managed to get my PSP through customs without paying any taxes. Declared it as a gift and made the seller set the value of the package at a lower price. Not proud of it, but custom in Norway demand 25% import taxes + custom fees. That is just to much.
Would have had to pay something like $100. (on a PSP and game).

fusion008 · Post by **fusion008** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:35 am

Deaddreamer wrote:I managed to get my PSP through customs without paying any taxes. Declared it as a gift and made the seller set the value of the package at a lower price. Not proud of it, but custom in Norway demand 25% import taxes + custom fees. That is just to much.
Would have had to pay something like $100. (on a PSP and game).

Cool, where did you buy it from?

Deaddreamer · Post by **Deaddreamer** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:26 am

Bought it from a guy on Ebay.com.
A warning:
I have done this kind of things many times and saved a lot of money.
But, it is not fool proof. Sometimes it gets stoped anywho. And customs demand their part.

One thing, if you do buy through ebay, doing so. Declare as a gift, reduced price at the package,
you have to remember to to make the sender not put any paper in the package saying the products price.
Even doing all this, you might not get away with it. Customs can demand seeing a copy of your payment. Like bank transfer, Paypal transfer, or something like that.
What I have experienced is that it does not seem that the package gets stopped that easy buying from Asia. May be something with the currency. I don't know.
Through Ebay, I have bought things from Asia 9 times. Never stoped by customs. But when from the USA. It's something like 20-25% chance it gets stoped.
(This is ONLY MY experience).

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