Comments on: Crazy Customs Charges: Someone Stop The Insanity http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Darius Wey http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272/comment-page-1#comment-541 Darius Wey Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:46:50 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272#comment-541 <blockquote>I guess I shouldn’t complain too loud though - I could live in Europe or Australia and have it be even more expensive/impossible to get the products that I want. What was the product you might ask? It shall be revealed soon…</blockquote> Actually, it's not that bad in Australia. Customs allows most products to be imported duty and tax-free if the value of the product doesn't exceed $1000 AUD. As for the extra distance covered by shipping, it only ends up costing a couple of dollars more.

I guess I shouldn’t complain too loud though - I could live in Europe or Australia and have it be even more expensive/impossible to get the products that I want. What was the product you might ask? It shall be revealed soon…

Actually, it’s not that bad in Australia. Customs allows most products to be imported duty and tax-free if the value of the product doesn’t exceed $1000 AUD. As for the extra distance covered by shipping, it only ends up costing a couple of dollars more.

]]> By: samantha autumn http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272/comment-page-1#comment-455 samantha autumn Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:50:32 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272#comment-455 hey thats crazy. my grandma lives in canada. she lives in chattom onterio. but i would not want to buy anything from canada because i live in ohio. lots of love Samantha Autumn hey thats crazy. my grandma lives in canada. she lives in chattom onterio. but i would not want to buy anything from canada because i live in ohio.
lots of love
Samantha Autumn

]]> By: ctmagnus http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272/comment-page-1#comment-426 ctmagnus Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:40:28 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/crazy-customs-charges-someone-stop-the-insanity-272#comment-426 I cannot tell you the number of times that extra charge has caused me to ditch my cart at an online checkout. And that's just for the merchants that actually state up-front how much their shipping, etc. will be. I cannot tell you the number of times that extra charge has caused me to ditch my cart at an online checkout. And that’s just for the merchants that actually state up-front how much their shipping, etc. will be.

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