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[Heikki Sørum]

First off all, I highly doubt if any serious corporation _or_ FOSS
community would engage in such matters. There are much more at stake
than just a wish to avoid a additional 25% VAT surcharge. ( That's the
tax he's complaining about.) Regardless, discussing illegal VAT or tax
evasion on a public mailinglist isn't the world's brightest idea. On
the other hand, If he'd prefer to pay less VAT there is a way for
Norwegians to do so. Norwegians are allowed to bring into Norway wares
worth up to 6000NOK (about 1200USD) _IF_ they spend a minimum of 24
hours abroad. If Flexd really want to avoid paying VAT I'd recommend
him to order a freerunner from a EU dealer and ship it _post restante_
to a swedish post office. Then he'l have to pick it up after
spending a day&night in sweden. 

Post restante= Old postal tradition where mail and packages are
adressed to a post office rather than a person. Such packages are then
retained for two weeks _without_ notice. The recipient has to pick
it up and prove their identity before the post office releases such
mail/packages. 

When that have been said, why cant flexd join the norwegian 10pack
order?
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales

Sincerly, Heikki Soerum.


Den Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:00:06 +0200
flexd <flexd at doombox.org> skrev:

> If ordering from the US (or anywhere really), would it be possible to 
> have the package marked as a gift to evade taxes and such? Norwegian 
> taxes are high, so we'll probably pay like half a phone extra >_<
> 
> Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano skrev:
> > Erland Lewin ha scritto:
> >> 2008/4/13, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <mail at 3v1n0.net>:
> >>  
> >>>  Well, if you consider that you've to pay the shipping costs from 
> >>> Usa or
> >>> Asia in 10 or more people, instead that as an alone buyer I think 
> >>> that you
> >>> gain really more than 30$-8€ ;)
> >>>     
> >>
> >> Well, that is the key question now for us in the EU - I believe
> >> that FIC has said that they will have a distribution center in the
> >> EU, which should make the shipping much less expensive. The very
> >> high shipping cost in relation to the price of the phone I think
> >> was a problem with the GTA01...
> >>
> >> I'm very much looking forward to hearing about how FIC will solve
> >> the EU distribution, and how much the shipping will be in Europe
> >> on top of the $399 + VAT price, which I think is a very good
> >> price. I think that info would be in the next update from FIC.
> >>
> >> /Erland in Stockholm, Sweden
> > Yes, you are right, i was thinking that buying a 10pack phone is 
> > always cheaper than buying a single phone due to the shipping
> > costs. I'd like to know the eu price and if it's convenient to buy
> > the phone in eu, else there are some services that you can
> > subscribe for 10$ which give you an us address so you buy the phone
> > and send them there, after that you pay the shiping cost from there
> > to your nation, this can let you to not pay VAT, don't know how
> > much it's legal but i'd like to get more info on this services
> > because they can be very useful. Everything obviously is to see how
> > much the eu phone costs due to the VAT and other taxes.
> > So i have to get more info about this service but they exist so i 
> > think it should be a good deal to use them if in eu the phone will 
> > cost too much.
> >
> > Cya!
> >
> > Pietro
> >
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