Declaring Value On Overseas Shipping

LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
edited January 2012 in Strut Central
My old policy was to under-declare value to save European customers from paying vat.

More recently I have started declaring full value to more closely follow the letter of the law.

Today I am sending hundreds of dollars of records to Italy, express mail.
One side says insure the records for full value in case they get lost in the mail.
But, recently I have heard that Italian postal workers will steal anything with a high valuation.

What do all you all do?

  Comments


  • gazgaz 232 Posts
    If you insure them put the full value [prob essential to Italy as there is a high likelihood theyll go missing]

    Uninsured or normal registered post, if you dont declare a low value on the postal decalaration, on average across europe about $25 max, you will loose most euro customers which would incl me for one
    Import tax kills us on buying anything from outside the EU and includes a paperwork charge on top of $15 to boot

    never complain about your tax in the US ...

    Oh and yes, I'm another ebayer that excludes Italy from all my sales and I'm from Europe !

  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    Only time I ever declare more than 5-10 bucks is if I'm insuring it, because then you have to.
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