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

[Joe Grubbs]

I was worried about the tax you'd have to pay for that TP10 :-/

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From: "Daniel Campos" <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
Sent: March 21, 2015 6:41 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Buying a Dragon from California Digital - Has anyone?

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

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
>


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