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inthewild · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea

Anything I need to know before I just have my laptop sent from the US to Korea with the romanized school address written on the box...?

Taxes, other government related things... other unknown variables.

Like it goes through customs and they take it and I never know about it... Neutral

Thanks.

Randall Flagg · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:32 am Post subject:

You may have to pay duty on it. I recently had an external hard drive shipped to me and had to pay duty. The problem is that it just sat at customs in the airport and nobody notified me. After several days of waiting I finally called FedEx. It seems they were content to let it just sit there. Evil or Very Mad

inthewild · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea

Interesting... any idea what the duty might be?

I'm getting a really slow old laptop sent over... like 250mhz. Feel free to comment on the (lack of) wisdom on this too. Neutral

Randall Flagg · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:52 am Post subject:

I read on another thread something about not paying duty on used items. I don't really know the rules governing duty either. In order to cut down on duty costs I told the Fedex people the value of the product was only $300 (actual cost was much higher). I ended up paying 44000 won.