Elektron Musical Instruments

Well my MD is sitting in customs as I write this :)  I'm excited but I'm 
also starting to get a bad feeling about some heavy import taxes or 
some other bloody fees I didn't know about.

For all you MD owners: How much did you get taken for at customs???

I think it was around $60.


--- In elektron-users@y..., "machinedrum99" <machinedrum99@y...> 
wrote:
> Well my MD is sitting in customs as I write this :)  I'm excited 
but I'm 

> also starting to get a bad feeling about some heavy import taxes or 
> some other bloody fees I didn't know about.
> 
> For all you MD owners: How much did you get taken for at customs???

So far, in the States - I haven't paid anything for customs...Maybe they'll
send me a bill?

-b
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I paid about $70 USD here in Seattle.

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I got my customs bill about 2 weeks after the MD arrived, cost me 60 bux

-----Original Message-----
From: W. Brent Latta [mailto:wbl@...]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 4:41 PM
To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [elektron] MD @ Customs $$$

So far, in the States - I haven't paid anything for customs...Maybe they'll
send me a bill?

-b
_______________________________________________
W. Brent Latta :-: wbl@...
Official 3DMC Website :-: http://www.3dmc.org
Download tunes :-: http://www.3dmc.org/studio.shtml
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Don't be surprised if they do. Actually, you usually
pay the tax to the deliver service when it arrives (it
depends of the state)

--- "W. Brent Latta" <wbl@...> wrote:
> So far, in the States - I haven't paid anything for
> customs...Maybe they'll
> send me a bill?
> 
> -b
> _______________________________________________
> W. Brent Latta :-: wbl@...
> Official 3DMC Website :-: http://www.3dmc.org
> Download tunes :-: http://www.3dmc.org/studio.shtml
> ________________________________________________
> 
> 


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I didn't pay any customs tax on a MD sent to Virginia.
so, depends on your location

On Tue, 14 May 2002 06:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Flavio Alvarez 
<srminimo@...> wrote:

> Don't be surprised if they do. Actually, you usually
> pay the tax to the deliver service when it arrives (it
> depends of the state)
> 
> --- "W. Brent Latta" <wbl@...> wrote:
> > So far, in the States - I haven't paid anything for
> > customs...Maybe they'll
> > send me a bill?
> > 
> > -b
> > _______________________________________________
> > W. Brent Latta :-: wbl@...
> > Official 3DMC Website :-: http://www.3dmc.org
> > Download tunes :-: http://www.3dmc.org/studio.shtml
> > ________________________________________________
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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> LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience
> http://launch.yahoo.com
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At 02:31 PM 5/14/02 -0400, James David Beard wrote:
>I didn't pay any customs tax on a MD sent to Virginia.
>so, depends on your location

Not entirely.  When the Sidstation first came out, I had a Sid delivered to 
my work address in Virginia via DHL.  A couple of weeks later, they sent me 
a bill for the ~$35 customs fee.

Evidently there are some other variables at work as well....

         -c-

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Yea it really depends of if you get screwed or not.  Most of the time they
wont catch it but supposedly they check 10% of the packages coming in to the
US, so while they check them they figure they might as well charge you. Plus
since Sept 11th they are more strict on checking the packages.  Also since
electron includes the shipping in the price you get charged duty on the
shipping too, which is not supposed to happen and is even illegal :o

On a side note, if the package is marked gift they don't charge the duty.


on 5/14/02 5:01 PM, Catilyne at catilyne@... wrote:

At 02:31 PM 5/14/02 -0400, James David Beard wrote:
>I didn't pay any customs tax on a MD sent to Virginia.
>so, depends on your location

Not entirely.  When the Sidstation first came out, I had a Sid delivered to
my work address in Virginia via DHL.  A couple of weeks later, they sent me
a bill for the ~$35 customs fee.

Evidently there are some other variables at work as well....

        -c-

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                                                    -recoil



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In Norway, tax for the MD is around $300 - $350.... :-(