Caliroots Customs charges

[UKingdom]

to my surprise (and shock) I received a bill from UPS today on a order I had made from Caliroots way back in early Oct, my order was $230 and I received a customs charge of $35 + $5 broker fee. WTF! i was pissed as hell. they didn't provide a deadline of when payment was due, etc. i never got notification or any advance warning that i'd be getting a bill. if i knew, i would have thought twice before making my order.

anyone have experience with paying customs/duties/tariffs? what bullshit. will definitely make me think twice before i make large overseas orders. shipping alone was $30 and now i'm having to pay an additional fucking $40.

[feeble]

Get over it.

That charge is nothing to what I had in the past, £70 for a Kaws figure....jeeez my jaw nearly dropped that day. I was in a complete haze for the rest of the week because of that crazy charge.

[freddrick]

i paid 30 dollarls shipping plus 60 extra in taxes... for a pair of vans :D from overseas.. life sucks :D!

[Mackland]

lol thats the risky part of ordering from online stores.. they note the actuall amount of the goods

i just ordered from an online store, lionsden and anything, for the first time, the goods should be delivered this week..

[homi]

yeah , its a problem for us in alot of countries

main problem is UPS also , they tack on a useless brokerage fee to alot of things

[imsohappy]

i just purchased a jacket no custom charge.

[UKingdom]

don't speak too soon; i didn't get any advance notice then got a bill 1 month later...

[tomxkaws]

i know someone who got a £70 import charge for a £170 hoody

england is disgraceful when it comes to taxes

[jawnly211]

im knocking on wood as i type this


but i live in the states.......has anyone ordered from caliroots and got taxed from customs living in the USA???????

[UKingdom]

i live in the usa too. and i got a $42 tax on my $230 caliroots order. so yes, you will get taxed.

[jawnly211]

damn

live and learn.........

[munition]

yea, thats happened to me before. I thought online shopping from other countries would be cool, but NOOO, they gotta charge extra shit
thats why im never going to order anything from out of the states

[1 OF 1]

ive heard about these nightmares from caliroots. i try to avoid these sites even though they have a lot of heat on their website... its a g-damn shame...

[PopYaColla]

That's what it's like for me everytime I order from the U.S., but hey, if I get sick I don't need insurance :)

I'll rather pay some more for mye clothes for that reason alone.

[Mackland]

yo dutch customs charged me $96 tax for a phase 2 hoody from florida i just wanted to pick up, while at the same time i picked up a package of lionsden w/out any charges...

cancelled the phase 2..

[PaulzY]

What about getting charged significantly more for postage fees than the real cost. I buy a hat off ebay and the charge for shipping is listed as $26US for overseas shipping, so as I won the auction your sort of agreed to pay it. But then when it arrives you see the sticker shows it only cost $7 CAD, that shit makes me feel like I'm entitled to a refund.

[Mackland]

^ nothing special, shit happens

ive also been charged for usd15 while actual shiping was usd25

but iam just in a haze of that $96 custom tax cotdamn

[goschn]

yeah it's fucked up ... when I order from overseas I usually ask the online store to state a real low value that avoids me to pay those extra taxes. I live in Switzerland and everything that has a value over 100 USD gets some extra custom taxes. You should try to find out what that amount is in your homecountry....