How do you avoid custom charges?

[Douglas R]

Originally Posted by stuarty

Planetaxel ship from their warehouse in the States or Canada to their warehouse in the E.U. and then forward it to the buyer thus avoiding custom charges.

They don't avoid customs charges - no supplier can legally do that. The charges are worked into the total cost of the item.

[Mr. Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Douglas R

They don't avoid customs charges - no supplier can legally do that. The charges are worked into the total cost of the item.

No, but they play the system. They basically exploit the fact that all countries in the EU have different import limits. They import the discs to a country with a high import limit, then repack them and ship them to their destination.

As the discs have been imported legally to EU and were below the importing country's import limit, the destination country is not allowed to charge customs. As I wrote above, it is a fundamental principle in the EU that goods can travel freely between the member countries without being subjected to customs inspection.

[gothic_hobbit]

It is now 2014.

Which companies are still customs friendly ?

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by gothic_hobbit

It is now 2014.

Which companies are still customs friendly ?

The only two I know of that will guarantee no charges are Movietyme and DVDWorldUSA as they re-ship from inside the UK.

There are other companies out there that I have ordered from that arrived without charges (ImportCDs/Barnes&Noble) but that might have just been luck.

If you order from Amazon.com and choose Expedited Shipping you can pre-pay Import Fee's so no nasty surprise.

[TheDot]

Ah, PlanetAxel, those were the days.

[Sinthetic]

I buy from DeepDiscount and Bluraysforeveryone for my US stuff. DDDHouse, YesAsia, KimchiDVD and Amazon Japan for my Asian stuff.

Never had customs charges.

[bigeviljimmy]

how reliable are bluraysforeveryone?