Sure as an individual that is not unreasonable. However as a company doing the same thing you run the risk of some serious fines, not to mention the tax revenue you are depriving the countries from that could be going to good use such as paying for education.
Hi! This is Daniel.
1st... I think it is crap that we even allowed those lights out. we had an issue with the packaging and these must have been already ready to go.. As stated we will get you a new set..
2nd.. We do the majority of our Business outside the USA actually. We have locations in South Korea and China and based on how thing are going.. we are considering a partner location in Australia. Through out time we have evaluated many things and import duties are one of them.
All duties are paid in advance on the actual sale price and it is incorporated into the actual shipping cost from us to. We discount the additional costs and you only pay the logistics ( shipping cost ) in general we actually pay around 18% of the actual retail price as this is a cleaner more efficient way to process the item. if we judged every sale on the retail price and then again to the buyer on the retail price the actual taxation would be double what it should be and in effect there would it would be paid twice. in order to combat the issue and cover the buyer from resulting fees we pay in advance in cooperation with the shippers ( DHL UPS FEDEX ). All in all we pay almost 15% higher in tariffs than a normal import would pay but this protects from any issues and balances out around tax time. So we actually pay more per item and dump more back into the system than if we declared the value individually and made the buyer pay the fees... The amount of paper work that takes is insane and often results in a COD shipment and people don't like that...
We take care of it all on the backside so you don't have to and we pay roughly 14%- 18%
After 4 years of running things we have found this to be the best options when we ship direct from our warehouse. Hope this helps explain it all..
There is no scam on anything nor is there any issue.. id be more than happy to show you miles of monthly invoices showing our contribution to the education system though... I have to wonder if it actually goes there... anyways...
We have always been honest about everything we do and we would love to move more here to the USA but its hard.. We are a growing international company and through what we do overseas we have created a decent number of Jobs in the USA as well..
Thank you for your business.. we really do appreciate it... we are very sorry these made it out and we will make it up to you for sure... As stated shot me an email direct and lets chat 1 on 1 to see what we can do for you in addition to a new set of light!
