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Customs are just ****s, that's all there is to it.
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Received mine today. **** me it's perfect.
anwe
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Unfortunately EMS is more likely to be caught by customs for me. Even if they don't check the package and verify the value and you get to pay for the low value declared. But still with the extra handling fees it becomes very annoying.
The worst thing is when it's used good won on Ebay or Yahoo. In what way is it reasonable to put local sales tax and possible customs fees on used products from another country that I have bought with money I have already payed income tax for?
Various criminal grouping throughout history could not have come up with a system more twisted and onesided than income tax, sales tax and customs fees. I guess maybe it was criminals that invented it, but it was perfected by government offcials.
The worst thing is when it's used good won on Ebay or Yahoo. In what way is it reasonable to put local sales tax and possible customs fees on used products from another country that I have bought with money I have already payed income tax for?
Various criminal grouping throughout history could not have come up with a system more twisted and onesided than income tax, sales tax and customs fees. I guess maybe it was criminals that invented it, but it was perfected by government offcials.
Pixelpiper
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Pretty sure this happens in most countries. Sales tax, Value Added Tax, makes no exception for whether something is used. You buy, you pay tax on your purchase. Income tax is entirely something else. There are many othr taxes you won't see applied to items you buy new within your own country as well, so taxing used items helps your government collect on those imported goods. Yeah, it sucks.
Start a business, it helps.
EMS gets delivered here without any processing fees, which is nice.
anwe
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It does, but I do tend to get a little upset when I think about all the taxes that I pay and others pay and still the government (local and state) can't take care of the simplest things because they piss away all that money on inconsequential things that aren't good for anybody. Of course it has something to do with living in the country in the world that has a personal grudge match with one of our closest neighbor countries over which can have the highest taxes in the world.
Using EMS was a guaranteed taxfree affair 10 years ago, as was FedEx. But now it's not I'm sorry to say. Some stuff at least from Asia you almost have to use EMS but as I said, I'm used to pay tax.
It would just go down a hell of a lot easier if I could see the positive things that comes out of it. But I live in a very civilized country that hasn't had a war in centuries and we pay the highest or second highest taxes in the world and have for decades. We supposedly do that so that we will be taken care of even if we have had a bad run. Still when people become sick they get lousy care, if you are very unlucky you die before getting the proper care, or when people grow old and weak and can't live on their own, they get to live in an old folks home where the staff starts putting the residents to bed in the late afternoon because then the home is unmanned late in the evening and at night.
When I drive to work the road is full of pot holes unless it's winter where the snow fills in the holes and after a month or so the allocated funds for snowplows are depleted so they have to take the money from somewhere else and by next summer they have to neglect the few public football fields and stop cutting the grass around town. If I'm the victim of a robbery there is a bigger chance of me winning the lottery than that the police is even investigating the case if I don't catch the criminals myself and even then it's not a given.
If by chance some other country should try to invade us we have a defensive force that could probably hold them off for about 10-15 hours. But it costs probably ten times as much as comparable nations.
It sounds like terrible whining but it's pretty much a reality. Of course I do live in the swedish municipality that have among the longest streak of social democrat rule in the country. Close to a hundred years I think. But there is little sign of the situation being much better elsewhere.
Ok, I guess I'm a bitter old man, moving on...
Using EMS was a guaranteed taxfree affair 10 years ago, as was FedEx. But now it's not I'm sorry to say. Some stuff at least from Asia you almost have to use EMS but as I said, I'm used to pay tax.
It would just go down a hell of a lot easier if I could see the positive things that comes out of it. But I live in a very civilized country that hasn't had a war in centuries and we pay the highest or second highest taxes in the world and have for decades. We supposedly do that so that we will be taken care of even if we have had a bad run. Still when people become sick they get lousy care, if you are very unlucky you die before getting the proper care, or when people grow old and weak and can't live on their own, they get to live in an old folks home where the staff starts putting the residents to bed in the late afternoon because then the home is unmanned late in the evening and at night.
When I drive to work the road is full of pot holes unless it's winter where the snow fills in the holes and after a month or so the allocated funds for snowplows are depleted so they have to take the money from somewhere else and by next summer they have to neglect the few public football fields and stop cutting the grass around town. If I'm the victim of a robbery there is a bigger chance of me winning the lottery than that the police is even investigating the case if I don't catch the criminals myself and even then it's not a given.
If by chance some other country should try to invade us we have a defensive force that could probably hold them off for about 10-15 hours. But it costs probably ten times as much as comparable nations.
It sounds like terrible whining but it's pretty much a reality. Of course I do live in the swedish municipality that have among the longest streak of social democrat rule in the country. Close to a hundred years I think. But there is little sign of the situation being much better elsewhere.
Ok, I guess I'm a bitter old man, moving on...
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Biosecurity...!
****s. Absolute ****ing ****s. They make this **** up as they go along.
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Beautiful pic of a beautiful figure
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Thanks Rory I really appreciate that coming from an artist like you! 
Looking great there Snake! This is another thread that I feel behind in, but I'm getting the gist that these are getting universal praise. Thank God!
This must have been talked about to death already but which one is offered in the single set? I'm assuming the taller one?
Is the disparity in color that drastic in person, or is it mainly that evident in pics?
This must have been talked about to death already but which one is offered in the single set? I'm assuming the taller one?
Is the disparity in color that drastic in person, or is it mainly that evident in pics?
Last question that has been likely answered ad nauseam; it seems like all sets include the mouse droid so the exclusive is just the rack, right? Or is there more to the EX?
Exactly. The set comes with large trooper, short trooper, rifle and mouse droid. The exclusive set comes with all that and a gun rack.
inked
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It's more the fact the the light doesn't bounce off of it as much as the HT troopers
Yeah - has there been any firm word on when this ships through Sideshow? Is this one that's caught up in the port strike? Really bummed to see all these great pics but not really be a part of it for perhaps many months.
BatBrain
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Mine is still in NYC according to USPS tracking. Hasn't moved since 2/15. Hope they arrive for the weekend...
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