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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;john59, post: 2109452, member: 73760&quot;]Lying on the customs forms, I do not advise this to anyone. This is a potential problem. Foreign government customs are not stupid. Anything strange on the customs label will get it opened and they will check it. Especially anything marked as &#039;gift&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the insurance part, if you do not put the right amount on the customs label (at least for high priced items that I sell) the insurance will be voided. Your rationality that countries consider scanning a useless frill is totally wrong. Most but not all do it. To what extent? That&#039;s left up to the country. That&#039;s the only way they track their packages the same way we do. So at least 1% of them will get scanned. And what gets scanned, you know will get delivered. At least with my experience to foreign countries they get the right address. </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re going to hear horror stories, packages going to and from the US and it&#039;s rightfully so. Our postal system&#039;s quality has gone down unbelievably. Even though we&#039;re still the best in the world, at least in my opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>You have a trend now on eBay, that US sellers will only send to the 48 states and will not send to Alaska or Hawaii. Also territories and protectorates. Why? I don&#039;t know. The tracking and service is the same. Now on the other hand the foreign countries, you&#039;re seeing a trend in Germany, France, Sweden and many others that will not send to the US at all. They only will send within Europe. It doesn&#039;t matter, even if you&#039;re willing to pay Express cost, they will not send out of Europe. Half of their fears are US customs, too many lost items and the part of the US not wanting to sell out of the country plus the cost. </p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, if you&#039;re getting paid by paypal, after a certain dollar amount you need signature confirmation. That&#039;s why with anything I sell over $500 abroad I will only take cash or Western Union.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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