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I recently read an article in the national press about a guy who has been buying CD`s from the states for years now without any problems. But recently it appears cutoms have been opening his packages and forcing him to pay some fee to do with postage. I have heard many stories about duty to be paid this side also. Has anyone out there ever had to pay any fees other than the initial purchase cost? Or is this just an Urban Legend!

My last 2 orders from America have ended up at customs. They charge VAT and an import duty and then the post office charge an extra handling fee.

So my lovely cheap 40% off pre-order bargins got very expensive.

I have heard that custums are catching more and more DVD imports. I don`t know whether importing from certain company`s are more likely to end up at customs as my last 2 orders were with Express.com and I`ve always used Amazon.com before that without any problems.

Has any one else had any problems?

We ordered X files series1 from amazon.com and were done for VAT and handling, still worked out a lot cheaper (and earlier) than region 2. Others may be able to confirm that there may be a price threshold (38 dollars or pounds rings a bell) below which you won`t get charged. But yes it happens, and if you`re unlucky it can end up costing you more than buying it over here.
Dave

try the sites that say you will not pay those prices guaranteed.
i use http://www.admitone-dvd.com and they say you will not pay the prices even if it gets caught. worth i try as they are cheap as well and quick to deliver, usually 5 workin days.

The site http://www.admitone-dvd.com appears to be a very good deal, anyone else out there heard anything about it?

We should, they are a client of ours, and sponsor a lot of the Reviewer competitions (see their charts on our Region 1 news page).

They have just reduced prices too!

Mark
DVD Reviewer

Yep. used them quite a bit. They are quick and efficient ( i got Fight Club 10 days early (than the official street date) and now even cheaper. Well worth a look. Another good site is Future Entertainment (www.futureent.com). If you order through them they`ll get you just about any released disc in 24 hours i.e. order before 12 for a next morning delivery. Which is nice :-)