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Another story out today about a guy who got tailed for importing phake goods. I guess they found a whole lot more than anticipated.


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Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

I have the same thing going on here.Miami ISC. Parcels came into U.S
the 2nd of last month Aug.

The PO here in my home town keeps telling me to be patient. I've got 2 packages I'm waiting for. One says processed thru on the 5th
of Sep. the other says the 7th.

This must have picked these out at
random,this has happened once before, about a year to a year and a half
ago.
I have to admit I blew it off. But one day I moved it got forwarded
to my new address and the package was in my mailbox.

Good luck with your parcels,

noflkid:croc:

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

US Customs now keeps tabs on sellers who import a good amount of phakes. They will sometimes even let items go through to see where they go. 5-6 years ago importing phakes was nothing if they got seized you just got a letter saying they would destroy the items and they where confiscated.

Completely different game today. Anyone who imports items via EMS, DHL, UPS, TNT, Fed Ex without some kind of special clearance is crazy. My friend back in the day had a contact who had DHL shipment Air bills changed from like 40lbs to 1-2lbs so they bypassed customs.

Unless you have some crazy connect like that which that person ended up doing jail time overseas. You are nuts, giving customs a free look at what you are buying and the addresses and everything else.

Have known multiple people that have gotten caught up importing including one just last week saying he wished he would have listened to me after he messaged me earlier in the year when I responded about a friend who got raided by Customs/Border Security. Apparently the same thing happened to him about a week ago.

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don't mess with ph@@@%%%s .it is VERY expensive cost to hire a lawyer. and a lot stress when the agent raid your house and al possible jail time
listen to "vogeltron" , multiple persons had been hit with this.DO NOT do it any more if you still do it,if you have stock,throw them away.make sure you throw away the old computers,data card,and old phones,,,,

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

yes,they showed up at the door,seriously!!!! do not mess with %$^&*** any more,

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

CUSTOMS & HOMELAND SECURITY WILL TAKE WAHTEVER ACTION THEY WANT & WHATEVER ACTION THEY NEED TO ENFORCE IMPORTATION LAWS.

STOP DOING PHAKES. IT SUCKS GETTING A KNOCK ON YOUR FRONT DOOR AT 06:00AM IN THE MORNING

Users knowinginly importing phakes can deal with their own issues.

No more posts crying over held parcels.

:nono:

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

Read the whole thread. So during the last 1-2 years it got worse. But the question is - did they become more picky in catching the goods (doesn't matter VERO or not) pursuing the tax procedure etc or they got tougher on catching VERO and contraband of branded goods?

Cause the previous post of N/A guy sounded more like "hide in the forest for the rest of your life" than real suggestions how to be more sneaky.

P.S.: if that is a point - eb & pp also tracks everything :spy:

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

More picky? Likely more techniques exist to sort it out over past 2 years so...in a ways, sure

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

US Customs and H.S. is a completely different animal than eBay/PP.

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Don't know if this thread having no real talk about customs issues this past 2 years is a good sign or a bad one. How are customs procedures these days about importing stuff?

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

Same as always.

Avoid foo foos

:pound:

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US Customs in VA will confiscate any item from China that was "inadvertently" mislabeled. They will NOT necessarily notify you the receiver of anything - ever. You have to address refund or credit issues with the supplier. I had 1 package that had a legal substance only 3 oz. confiscated -then nada. Got credit from supplier. They had labeled it incorrectly. Why? the item was legal? error I guess. The 2nd package was detained without notice but released after 10 days. It was 1 lb of pure silica sand. Customs can just pocket items they like since there is NO recourse for US receivers. Trust your government? :hail:

Re: Package Held in Customs, Getting Nervous
 

Good luck hope it all works out