Re: FSRs and German Customs
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:12 am
Speaking from recent experience here...
Let's just say you have a German buddy buy some FSRs and then re-ship them to you in the US. Germany has some "decent" flat-rate shipping from DHL:
Up to 5kg €35 ($46)
Up to 10kg €45 ($60)
Up to 20kg €65 ($86)
I priced out the cost of either 10kg (4 FSRs) or 20kg (8-9 FSRs) and the final priced worked out to about $30 per FSR to get them over here to the US. Now if you had someone in the UK who could get a few cases shipped for to them for cheap, that might save some money on the initial shipping cost. But if you're looking at shipping more than 9 FSRs (one case) at a time (to save shipping costs), you have to add the extra worry that Customs might take a special interest in your pacakge. Yes, even if the product originated here in the US - because they won't necessarily know that.
Let's just say you have a German buddy buy some FSRs and then re-ship them to you in the US. Germany has some "decent" flat-rate shipping from DHL:
Up to 5kg €35 ($46)
Up to 10kg €45 ($60)
Up to 20kg €65 ($86)
I priced out the cost of either 10kg (4 FSRs) or 20kg (8-9 FSRs) and the final priced worked out to about $30 per FSR to get them over here to the US. Now if you had someone in the UK who could get a few cases shipped for to them for cheap, that might save some money on the initial shipping cost. But if you're looking at shipping more than 9 FSRs (one case) at a time (to save shipping costs), you have to add the extra worry that Customs might take a special interest in your pacakge. Yes, even if the product originated here in the US - because they won't necessarily know that.