@Julian crossing my fingers here, but if I do get full tax it's okay since its only 50-60 dollars.

where are you from?

i ordered 500€ phone to germany paid 0 tax

from gearbest

you probably got german express

I cannot use this

I have to use normal registered airmail, and then I have to rely that they dont splerg all out and write 200 dollars as value on a 150 dollar item

because if they do oh boy I will have to pay more than its worth

what country?

Norway

no EU market, full tax border on all items.

well youre probably rich anyway lol

yeah totally rich boi

Its off-topic, but I have loans that are at 21k EUR now.

well gearbest has been pretty reasonable to me so good luck

thats a BIG oof

Yeah, that was why I ordered here, Lauri said that his phone got sent underdeclared, maybe they are just saying this to keep up face.

I also saw another one who posted in reviews it was declared as 100 USD, this is also acceptable since its not that bad. I have to pay a fee to pay taxes, this is the worst when it comes to chink shit.

You can end up with 50% of the item tax cost being the handling fee for collecting taxes of the postal company

25% tax I am fine with

when it comes to chink shit I think that in the future everything will be taxed through an online EU portal some years from now

well everything is more expensive up there so it would be sorta unfair if you had to pay the same there than you have to pay here

Well I am getting the A2 lite, it has warranty if I order it locally. Okay so let me explain the scenarios

a2 meaning phone?

1 I get chinkshit phone locally, its the 32GB ROM, 3GB RAM version, 230 euros. But I do get 2 years? probably 1 year local warranty,

like a xiaomi a2 is that a thing?

2. I get it at GearBest, the 64GB ROM and 4 GB RAM model. 152 euros, probably 50 eur in tax. so 200 euros.

So for a cheaper price, even if taxed, I get a phone with 1GB more RAM and 30 GB more ROM.

Yeah its a phone.

I guess I shouldnt be worried since thats fine.

I barely ever used warranties, trust the Xiaomi stuff to work as it should. Obviously me being a retard and dropping it isnt covered by warranty.

that said, I probably will use GB less if they splerg.

i have a mi mix 2 for almost 1 year now and its fine

even dropped it on day 2

Probably a good flagship phone.

well good luck on your order

thanks. For the record Germany is lucky in this. All of the big merchants offer German Express where they take care of taxes for you. Here its manual and outdated.

Checked my last GB order

They sent it with the legit value, but they checked the gift box...

this is contradictory to what their support said.