So I order something from Madarake,

Received my 40$ (+shipping) toy, get to the post office to get told that I have to pay 113$ in taxe because the value of the package is 839$

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ok so I check the japan customs paper, Mandarake check the Gift option and value of 7100 yen

Now for Canada customs it says that it's an electronics NES/ Circuits value at 839$

wow

Has this ever happen to someone esle?


Thanks

Boy that sucks. Any way to arbitrate it?

113$ = the taxes on a 839$ item (their evaluation of 7100 yen)
If you kept your bill, it will be pretty easy to clear that off.
You probably will have to pay the 113$ first and do your claim after,
if you want your toy now though. This sucks hard.

that sucks a lot Side, sorry to hear that, canadian customs are some real slackers!

canada customs are the worst.

they lost a gorilla jyu on me. or at least it's still sitting there, undelivered since May.

Now that fucking sucks.

tell me about it. anything i mail international now is via EMS. no more first class mail.

^ Don't worry, they can fuck that up also.
They lost me a 300 Euros order that was insured with Collissimo a couple years ago.
Even worst is that they never acknowledged losing it in the first place.
I'm lucky the senders sent me a new box right away.
They got their money back from the french post 3 months later.

I just mail them my mandrake bill with the refund form

hope this work

Is it possible for you to talk to someone at the Post Office/Customs? From the values you stated, sounds like a clerical error.

I'm in the US, but it sounds similar to what happened to me. The seller shipped the package and a few weeks went by so I was wondering what was up. I got the tracking info and found out that it had been stalled at Customs the whole time. When I finally got someone on the phone, they told me that I owed them some outrageous amount on what would be about $400. worth of stuff and would also have to fill out an importer ID form, give them my SS# etc. Baffled. I started to complain, and said I've had stuff shipped from Japan at this value or more and have never had to fill out forms, pay a charge like this, etc. So the woman got all huffy and said, "well, if you import $40,000 in merchandise, what do you expect?!?!?" Um, okay. I told her to check the seller's invoice which had a value of 40,000 YEN, not dollars! Silence.....then "oh, I see what you mean." My package arrived with no Customs charges a few days later.

just got some news,

after a reject notice I was abable speak to someone who was on my case,
she just said to fax her my creditcard statement of the purchase

she phone me back to tell me that a 100$ check was in the mail

Great news. L'honneur est sauf !

The check just has to go through customs first, you'll be charged for it too

G, you've had some bad luck recently... have you cleared everything with that unsent items?

yup
He gave me a tracking number yesterday

Then I should say you're on good luck recently Everything that seemed wrong got fixed!!!

That's some great news, I'm happy for you Side.G