Just wanted to add that at least in portugal they ignore "gift markings" and such: if it comes from outside the EU, sometimes customs let it slip (hey, it happens, I think it's when they have too much backlog, but it happens less nowadays), but most of the times they hold on to it until you send them payment or go down there to pay taxing on the item.<br>
<br>That's why I always try to buy from inside the EU -- at least you know how much you're paying, VS thinking you are getting a great deal in US$, and getting your package delayed and taxed to a very (random) high price.<br>
<br>Ivo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM, flexd <<a href="mailto:flexd@doombox.org">flexd@doombox.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If ordering from the US (or anywhere really), would it be possible to have the package marked as a gift to evade taxes and such? Norwegian taxes are high, so we'll probably pay like half a phone extra >_<<br>
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Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano skrev:<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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Erland Lewin ha scritto:<br>
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2008/4/13, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <<a href="mailto:mail@3v1n0.net" target="_blank">mail@3v1n0.net</a>>:<br>
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Well, if you consider that you've to pay the shipping costs from Usa or<br>
Asia in 10 or more people, instead that as an alone buyer I think that you<br>
gain really more than 30$-8€ ;)<br>
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Well, that is the key question now for us in the EU - I believe that<br>
FIC has said that they will have a distribution center in the EU,<br>
which should make the shipping much less expensive. The very high<br>
shipping cost in relation to the price of the phone I think was a<br>
problem with the GTA01...<br>
<br>
I'm very much looking forward to hearing about how FIC will solve the<br>
EU distribution, and how much the shipping will be in Europe on top of<br>
the $399 + VAT price, which I think is a very good price. I think that<br>
info would be in the next update from FIC.<br>
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/Erland in Stockholm, Sweden<br>
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Yes, you are right, i was thinking that buying a 10pack phone is always cheaper than buying a single phone due to the shipping costs. I'd like to know the eu price and if it's convenient to buy the phone in eu, else there are some services that you can subscribe for 10$ 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.<br>
Everything obviously is to see how much the eu phone costs due to the VAT and other taxes.<br>
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.<br>
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Cya!<br>
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Pietro<br>
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