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austinchauncey
Joined: 02 Mar 2010
Location: seoul
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 Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 9:01 am Post subject: Foreign Stores that ship to Korea |
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What stores ship to Korea?
These are the ones I know of:
Shopbop
Freshpair
Strawberrynet
Amazon but only some products
I did a search and couldn't find anything. If such a discussion has been done, please let me know. |
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Steve_Rogers2008
Joined: 22 Mar 2010
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a lot of places on ebay will.... and LLBean of course....  |
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ForceOne
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Any sites for the fellas? |
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carpetdope
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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http://www.surfstitch.com/
Australian based surfwear, and all kinds of clothes and shoes. Pretty quick delivery, too. |
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bde2
Joined: 19 Feb 2010
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For any gym monkeys out there, netrition will ship to Korea. Just click past their warning about Korea having implemented greatly restrictive import laws. And after you pay for shipping, you'll only have one arm and leg left to work out...  |
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pangaea
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| JCPenney and Eddie Bauer ship to Korea. Victoria's Secret ships to Korea also, but not sure how helpful that will be if you are a guy. |
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shostahoosier
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Abercrombie ships to Korea too if you're still young enough to wear their clothing... |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Amazon.  They wanted to charge $130 to ship two sippy cups to Korea.  |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Saks, Bloomingdales and Macys will but this government will make any purchase price soar with their import taxes. |
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austinchauncey
Joined: 02 Mar 2010
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a way not to get screwed with import taxes? It is not my fault that I am too tall so can they just make exceptions for things I cannot possibly buy here? Is there a tall people tax exemption?
Don't say Itaewon. The only things there worth getting are at about a 200% markup. |
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Lolimahro
Joined: 19 May 2009
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Don't ship more than $100 worth of products at a time or you will be paying import taxes.
For kids, I believe Gymboree will also ship to Korea.
Some ebay sellers will ship to Korea but the shipping prices vary HUGELY.
You can use a mail-forwarding service like Bongo to mail-forward items from anywhere, but the mail costs are quite pricey. However, they arrive in 3 days usually. Even if you use a mail-forwarding service you should pay attention to what will cost you import taxes. |
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austinchauncey
Joined: 02 Mar 2010
Location: seoul
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Thanks for the info. My family's an unsatisfactory but free forwarding service.
Is there some way to hide it to avoid this import tax like maybe taking the things out of the package and just say they're sending some used things? Is that illegal or just frowned upon? How much is this tax? |
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ForceOne
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| In response to the last post, I usually find it works best to have the sender mark the package as a "gift" and write the value of the goods much lower than the actual value. Also, if it is clothing, have the sender take off all the tags and out of the boxes/packaging etc... |
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pangaea
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
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austinchauncey wrote:
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| Is there some way to hide it to avoid this import tax like maybe taking the things out of the package and just say they're sending some used things? Is that illegal or just frowned upon? How much is this tax? |
You can have things shipped to a friend or family member back home and ask them to remove the tags and repackage everything before sending it to you. I think the total estimated value of the contents has to be under $100 USD to avoid import tax. I know it is illegal for a catalog order company to remove tags before shipping overseas. I guess it would also technically be illegal to have things shipped to family and forwarded to you to avoid import tax, but with no tags or packaging, I would think it would be unlikely for anyone to find out that is what you did. If I am purchasing clothes to wear and not to resell them, I don't see why I would need to pay additional tax on them. If I bought the clothes and just brought them in my suitcase, no one would know the difference. |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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American Eagle ships to most places including Korea...
their delivery charge was moderate ($50 for 1 week delivery) and NO IMPORT TAX...
unlike Victoria's Secret that stung me with a $60 delivery charge plus 40 000 won import tax..
ouch!!! |
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