The seller paid the $180 fees, I felt kind of bad for him since it was meant to be $240

theres always the risk of the power that be holding on to your package if its undervalued and they smell the shekel

id rather do it all legit tbh

the item's price was $240

Could the chinks fake an invoice or would customs want a bank statement?

here they just wanted a screenshot of the purchase from ebay

so it could easily been fixed with

they can fake it but ask yourself if it's even worth it

I was an honest guy back then, so just took the bill

It's worth it

@sludge I thought about faking my proof of payment, but figured it wasnt worth 7€ i would have saved vs. 600€ potential fine for fraud

you can almost take for granted that they will write $20 on the box and not leave a receipt inside

ask them if unsure

I've never had an instance where that wasn't the case though

its not usualy worth the jailtime

The fees here are $50 +15% of (purchase + shipping) if (purchase + shipping) is over $40

so $400 becoms $510

15% without admin fee?

admin fee is $50

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I thought it was bad with parcelforce's £9

I don't mind paying the tax

customs workers gotta get paid

it's the admin fee that makes lower value items not worth it

So for me undervaluing things that are under 400 is pointless anyway

And I'm rarely buying things over 400

Jesus Christ

Living in third would country must suck

BTW, me and another csg are meeting up in Taipei this week if anyone local wants to jump in

It would suck

@kaetaa will you review each other's gf?

isn't china technically thirdworld

gulag says its second world

@JHWH that's already began

By the original cold war-era definitions, first world = US and its allies

second world = USSR, China and their allies

third world = non-aligned and neutral countries

So countries like Switzerland, Finland and Sweden were considered third world

China is one of the few OG second world country left in fact

without any sort of government change

Us = first world