Question Scuba Gaskets order - duty payment required???

[Scuba-74]

Ugh, I'm not having a great e-commerce day. Getting screwed left, right, and center everywhere I go.

Totally unrelated, but also happened today - some chick sold me something on eBay, then was about to ship it via ground vs. priority, so I would have missed it when I needed it. When asked why, she said I didn't pay enough for priority, although both the shipping method and fixed shipping fee were on her listing. When I asked to ship it anyway in whatever tf way she wanted, she actually refunded the purchase and had me buy it again, paying more for shipping now .

 

[tursiops]

My recent Aliexpress shipments have come through without that nonsense. Sounds like a ScubaGaskets and/or DHL problem to me.

 

[lowwall]

My recent Aliexpress shipments have come through without that nonsense. Sounds like a ScubaGaskets and/or DHL problem to me.

It's not a problem, it's the law since Trump ended the < $800 de minimis exception for goods mailed to individuals.

Aliexpress is doing their best to work around this by doing bulk shipments to US warehouses for popular products. They then ship from the warehouses when you place an order. It even looks to me like they are taking actual orders for items they don't have here and aggregating them into a single shipment to one of their warehouses to reship. This results in much lower costs because the duties are based on the wholesale rather than retail cost and they don't have to use an expensive express shipper which is otherwise needed to handle the collection of payment of the duties for individual shipments.

 

[macado]

This is not a ScubaGaskets issue. It is not their fault and there is really nothing they can do about it. I've had to pay duty fees on multiple DHL shipments from overseas from other vendors.

As someone else (@SpeedyJ) in the thread already mentioned the US ended it's Duty-Free De Minimis rule that most of us have benefited from over the years.

Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency

www.whitehouse.gov

It is all explained here..

https://www.dhl.com/discover/en-us/global-logistics-advice/logistics-insights/the-end-of-de-minimis-exemption-meaning-for-your-business

DHL just happens to be enforcing this and collecting duty whereas before they did not collect anything below the threshold. It's great, isn't it? Do you feel great because I feel very great..

 

[BoltSnap]

It's great, isn't it? Do you feel great because I feel very great..

Yep, the greatness is so great, it is spilling over to your wallet.

 

[rjack321]

It's not a problem, it's the law since Trump ended the < $800 de minimis exception for goods mailed to individuals.

Aliexpress is doing their best to work around this by doing bulk shipments to US warehouses for popular products. They then ship from the warehouses when you place an order. It even looks to me like they are taking actual orders for items they don't have here and aggregating them into a single shipment to one of their warehouses to reship. This results in much lower costs because the duties are based on the wholesale rather than retail cost and they don't have to use an expensive express shipper which is otherwise needed to handle the collection of payment of the duties for individual shipments.

This is exactly what is happening. They are importing products to US warehouses, marking them up by the import duties, then shipping them "within" the USA minus any apparent duty. It's an economy of scale issue for them, they pay the duties by the container-full instead of relying on a 3rd party (DHL in this case) to process them.

 

[tursiops]

I'm completely on board with the idiocy of the tariffs.
I'm NOT on board with absolving ScubaGaskets of any responsibility; they have chosen the easy path of just letting the end customer pay the bill instead of working out a way to ease the pain. It demonstrably can be done, as Aliexpress has shown.

 

[BoltSnap]

instead of working out a way to ease the pain. It demonstrably can be done, as Aliexpress has shown.

How so?

 

[rjack321]

I'm completely on board with the idiocy of the tariffs.
I'm NOT on board with absolving ScubaGaskets of any responsibility; they have chosen the easy path of just letting the end customer pay the bill instead of working out a way to ease the pain. It demonstrably can be done, as Aliexpress has shown.

I mean I know this might come as a surprise but there are quite a few businesses around the world that don't care to "help out a yank" right now. They will sell their stuff elsewhere rather than spend their time and energy accommodating the current white house's policies.

 

[tursiops]

I mean I know this might come as a surprise but there are quite a few businesses around the world that don't care to "help out a yank" right now. They will sell their stuff elsewhere rather than spend their time and energy accommodating the current white house's policies.

I guess I have no interest in dealing with someone who confuses me for a supporter of "the current white house's policies."