I wonder then how customs will interpret several package arriving at the same time, since they group several packages to the same buyer together to see if it reaches 200 dollars, I wonder if now they will count them separate to get to 20. (Or both)
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Customs found a new way to punish online buyers
I'd almost say my orders get split into multiple packages most of the time.
The couriers took DGM to court before and I suspect they will do so again this time. It's kind of hard to believe that many businesses are stocking items for resale $200 at a time. I don't very often buy the same items with any sort of regularity. If I was commercial, I'd have a very eclectic market stall.
This smells like a simple attempt to reduce the use of the $200 exemption because DGM can't seem to find a way to eliminate it completely which I believe to be their preference.
The couriers took DGM to court before and I suspect they will do so again this time. It's kind of hard to believe that many businesses are stocking items for resale $200 at a time. I don't very often buy the same items with any sort of regularity. If I was commercial, I'd have a very eclectic market stall.
This smells like a simple attempt to reduce the use of the $200 exemption because DGM can't seem to find a way to eliminate it completely which I believe to be their preference.
That's what I heard / read they supposedly do, no experience with it because my orders are always below 200.
Found it here just now in an article of 2014, but expressed as a complaint from the couriers of the abuse from customs so maybe they stopped doing that.
https://www.diariolibre.com/m/notic...endo-trabas-a-paquetes-de-couriers-HADL916551
If DR officials were smart they should be working with Amazon to, reduce taxes, costs, red tape, so Amazon could build a couple fulfillment centers in the DR.
I would order 10 pairs of shorts from Old Navy when they were having a sale, and they'd all be for me. 3-4 different styles, 3-4 different colors.
Jet Pack nor Taino did this. I had 2 orders come in the same day, value over $250 total, because I screwed up the timing. No issues or "extra" fees.
If they didn't have an outrageous 36% import tax for products, (plus then itbis coming in at 18% making the end product too expensive for decent retailers to bother), then maybe there would more availability of better products, and not so many people would need to order online, but when we only have the option of cheap chinese tat, sometimes sadly I really wonder if the island wants to advance at all.....