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@willyto I live in Philadelphia, USA.
When I bought my Rainbow Country jacket directly from the Mushman store in Japan, they shipped it and I didn't pay any import tax either. Also EMS to the U.S. and then USPS the rest of the way.
Because of that I never bothered to check the customs paperwork on any of my purchases to see what the declared value was.
Since it never happened before I was kind of surprised when I got that email this last time from DHL saying I need to pay import duty. And sorry I remembered $120. It was $135.
I can only think of two possible explanations:
1) USPS. They are severely incompetent.
or
2) From my understanding the seller ships it to the Buyee warehouse. Buyee then ships it to the buyer. So I don't know who is responsible for declaring value. I would assume the seller and all my other purchases were from bigger "stores" on Buyee that do a lot of business. I bought 3 jackets from the seller fashion_daikou. They currently have over 15,000 items for sale. Maybe it's standard practice for them not to declare full value on expensive items. The last jacket I bought was my Tenjin works JS02. It was from a seller that had no past sales and nothing currently for sale.
When I bought my Rainbow Country jacket directly from the Mushman store in Japan, they shipped it and I didn't pay any import tax either. Also EMS to the U.S. and then USPS the rest of the way.
Because of that I never bothered to check the customs paperwork on any of my purchases to see what the declared value was.
Since it never happened before I was kind of surprised when I got that email this last time from DHL saying I need to pay import duty. And sorry I remembered $120. It was $135.
I can only think of two possible explanations:
1) USPS. They are severely incompetent.
or
2) From my understanding the seller ships it to the Buyee warehouse. Buyee then ships it to the buyer. So I don't know who is responsible for declaring value. I would assume the seller and all my other purchases were from bigger "stores" on Buyee that do a lot of business. I bought 3 jackets from the seller fashion_daikou. They currently have over 15,000 items for sale. Maybe it's standard practice for them not to declare full value on expensive items. The last jacket I bought was my Tenjin works JS02. It was from a seller that had no past sales and nothing currently for sale.