[Mod_Master]

DON'T USE UPS !

i bought an HPI MT2 off ebay for a pretty good price. Boy was i ever wrong about my savings..

UPS brought me the package and reamed me up the @ss with brokerage fees and duties.. In total above my 19usd shipping charge i ended up paying a whpping 78 bucks for brokerage and duties..

Learn from me and take this advice if you dont already know... UPS SUCKS

btw.. great site i been visiting it often. i think this is my first post

[t3x]

did you end up getting the car?

[imported_VEN]

ok....what you do...i hope i dont get in trouble for this....I've heard people send their packages to people in US and those people send it over to Canada as a GIFT so no hassle taxes apply.....its proven to work and the customs can't do anything cause it really is a gift if you think about....I know how you feel...my first nitro car came from china and i payed half the price of the car for shipping and taxes...can you say RIPOFF?

[ayk_driver]

Originally Posted by iLikeEggs

ok....what you do...i hope i dont get in trouble for this....I've heard people send their packages to people in US and those people send it over to Canada as a GIFT so no hassle taxes apply.....its proven to work and the customs can't do anything cause it really is a gift if you think about....I know how you feel...my first nitro car came from china and i payed half the price of the car for shipping and taxes...can you say RIPOFF?

sure u can do that...

i send my stuff to my uncles mailbox he has in the US... when he goes down and get his car parts from there (he lives in baxter) he just grabs my stuff and calls me with the ransom on it... i think it cost me maybe 200 for 2 t-maxxes to come across the border lol

[Mod_Master]

yeah i did manage to get the car.. I know the gift trick.. lol

use it all the time with other shippers..

Problem is this time even though i specifically told the seller to mark it as a gift and declare a value under 100 he didnt !

regardless even if its a gift UPS will charge the brokerage fees which are the majority of the cost, you can save the taxes and all at the border though by marking as gift...



Anyways.. what can i do whats done is done...

on a side note anyone having trouble getting to the site?

[imported_VEN]

yes, once in a while

[Mr X]

when i got my tmaxx from US i payed 30 to ship out my truck and then payed 60 for customs. the sender did put it as a gift and he put the price at 95. then with the shipping tax which was added to that price it turned out to be 107. so i think that they do these things to get more money or something. but when i got my shocks shipped the price was 30 dollars and he sent it through USPS as a gift. there was no tax or anything but its not as safe because there is no tracking number

[PeanutButterJellyTime]

UPS is crazily expensive... I had to send my Fantom engine to Michigan to be rebuilt and I paid literally double what was expected due to UPS shipping fees... however, when I bought my RC10GT on E-Bay, the guy sent it as a gift through USPS and there was virtually no shipping, only about $15

[Pipeous]

marking as a gift doesn't always work. customs has taken many a package I had marked gift and opened them. then it sits on their shelves. I had a box of cars sit for almost 2 months in customs.

better off just getting shipper to put a lower value down and just pay the 10 or 15 bucks in taxes. if it's a small package and a low value then you won't pay anyway. trust me. I ship and have shipped ina ton of stuff. been doing it for years. the gift idea used to work but sure sucks waiting almost 3 months to get a box of cars... just cuz I was too cheap to pay $15... I'd rather pay the fee

[Mugenman]

All I'm going to say is there is no Duty in R/C Cars.