Anyone ever ship anything to China? Import fees the same regardless of carrier?

[DaWhim]

Laptops have no import duties in China. Maybe that's why you haven't been hit. Because there aren't any.

Here's the cost of freight forwarding from a company that gets economies of scale from shippers and gets better rates than you or I could ever hope of getting. And no, I'm not shipping this thing without tracking or insurance.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/Paragon_Media_Storage/Shipito.jpg

And I'm not handing it off to some stranger to take it across the border.

You still want my business at getting this laptop across the border for a fee? Because you're doing a shitty job of selling it with your attitude. You can forget it.

I don't get hit with VAT either, sorry man, you don't know sh1t about what i do, you need to stop assuming.

please go with TNT, save yourself money all the extra money you need not spending.

i don't want your business, you can go eat sh1t. i don't run a shipping company and my business is not helping people to ship things to china.

 

[yhelothar]

I wouldn't doubt it at all. That's how stuff operates in China. The odd Communist government/market economy means that these local party bigwigs can bend the rules for whatever company they are cozy with, and it's usually tolerated.

I once received a care package shipped from my family when I was studying abroad in China. It had been opened and rifled through. That kind of stuff happens all the time, sadly.

Yeah and unfortunately the US as well. The odd Crony Capitalistic government sells their souls to the highest bidder.

 

[2timer]

Yeah and unfortunately the US as well. The odd Crony Capitalistic government sells their souls to the highest bidder.

True, but corruption in the United States is not as bad as it is in China. Here at least, you have a legal system that protects personal property. In the USA a corrupt government official can't sell the village to a developer and kick everyone out.

 

[yhelothar]

True, but corruption in the United States is not as bad as it is in China. Here at least, you have a legal system that protects personal property. In the USA a corrupt government official can't sell the village to a developer and kick everyone out.

It does seem better controlled in the US. However, on a parallel, you may consider that the US allowed banks to gamble away billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars on the basis of greed.