Both DX and Manafont have done it on my recent orders (with HK Post). KD is still using fake information.
my last manafont order had toys/ electronics. value 150 hkd. Contained 18650's and a few power point adaptors etc
I used to buy somethings from seller in china(hk). Even for large orders, they never write value more than $30 unless you required. I think they do the good way of shipping.
Do you buy 3 or more items of one sort and pay $1,70 for the bulkrate?
Are the $1,70 also written down in the CN22 customer declaration?
No, I didn't buy any bulkrate items.
They say, For orders shipped with Airmail Service, the name of product category will be used as declaration and the declared value for most countries is between 30% to 60% of the package value. Norway/France/Demark are exceptions and use the real value. Besides, without specail requirment, invoices/receipts are never included in the packages.
Does anyone know if paying for the $1.70 bulkrate thing allows you to order multiples of only just ONE item or can you get the discount on more than one product? ie: 4 units of flashlight X and 5 units of laserpointer Y at the discount prices
Multiples of all items!
Used to do that alot. Switched to KD for the multiples without having to spend those 1.7usd (really a unneeded expense) and the faster shipping of course. If only MF would start suppling exotics like KD does but they are getting there...
They'd probably still be 10-20% more expensive as with most other items.
You do have to watch the price though - sometimes you get a discount off a price that is quite a bit higher than the one for a single item. I only do the Bulk Rate thing with a calculator to hand. It doesn't necessarily save money.
I use the Bulkrate often. Small example of my last order:
3x 18650 Trustfire 2400 mAh (sku.20392): Price for a pair: $9,57, for 3 pairs $8,38 (each pair) - I save $1,19 each pair.
Then I buy some cheap holsters (sku.1374): Price for a pair: $2,74, for 3 pairs $2,18 - I save $0,56 each pair.
Totally save: $5,25 and pay $1,70 for Bulkrate = $3,55
+1 very true
Now I have my DX package. The wrote thecorrect descriptions on it, but not the correct prices.
They wrote pretty much the exact half of the item value for me.
All of this is pointless, custom's officials aren't dumb . I know for sure that in my country they check the SKUs right from DX, some guys received unopened EMS packages with the exact tax invoice...
Just hope HMRC officials here don't read this! Ours seem to have other stuff to worry about. Which suits me just fine.
Especially as our free import limit has just dropped from £18 to £15.
In fact we don't have a true free limit since by law all but books pay 50% no matter what. It's the simplified form for private non commercial imports through officials post only, by carriers is a nightmare.
We have an exempt of 25 usd yearly , that mean that a 100 $ stuff pay tax over 75 .In practice since I live in a mega city they let all small things pass untaxed , only packets weighing more than 500 grs are stopped but not always , sometimes they stop small things or let in big things...
In provincials customs with few traffic and a lot of time they tax all, even a 3 $ keychain
Also the list of forbidden stuff is huge but is not enforced...
In Belgium, there is no extra tax on packages cheaper than 22 euro. But if the customs think the price on the package is lower than the real value, it becomes much more expensive.
I had to pay 62,05 euro extra to get the Magicshine bikelight, if the price on the package had been correct, i only hat to pay 21% taxes... That would have been about 20 euro, so i have payed 40 euro too much.
I try to keep each order under 22 euro, i don't order too many items at the same time.
Just an odd thought, but would it really be dishonest for them to put their cost on the delcaration instead of the retail value? The price we pay is after markup, shipping, overhead, etc etc, after all, and it seems a little excessive that we should be asked to pay duty on anything more than the wholesale cost of the item itself.