Question Scuba Gaskets order - duty payment required???

[rhwestfall]

No, Trump is the cause with his shallow actions.

 

[rhwestfall]

We are a world economy. To even think we should stand on our own is insane, immature, wreckless and naive....

 

[tursiops]

Lol — oh bless, you want the true price upfront. Adorable. The rest of the world’s been dealing with import duties for decades — it’s not a scandal, it’s just how grown-up trade works. Retailers don’t list every tax from every customs office on Earth, mainly because they’re busy selling products, not reading your country’s paperwork.

Every retailer on Earth is hiding prices just to trick you — or, and hear me out, that’s just how international trade works outside of a US zip code.

I appreciate your input, but not the snark.

 

[Scared Silly]

I guess you are unable/unwilling to grasp the point. I and probably most Americans are well aware of the stupid tariffs. Please just tell me the price of what I'm buying, that is all I ask. Not disclosing the true price is either bad sales practice or knowingly dishonest.

Please tell us what price ScubaGaskets should give you?

If I go to their website I get a price, once checked out I get the shipping cost. That is what I pay them.

Seems simple to me. That is until shipper is forced to collect duty and adds their fee. That is what I pay the shipper and indirectly the orange thing.

Edit to add. If you want to know the duty do your due diligence and search the HS. They are online. But alas that now changes seemingly daily with the current administration.

 

[tursiops]

Please tell us what price ScubaGaskets should give you?

If I go to their website I get a price, once checked out I get the shipping cost. That is what I pay them.

Seems simple to me. That is until shipper is forced to collect duty and adds their fee. That is what I pay the shipper and indirectly the orange thing.

You are exactly right. That is what happens. You order something and (think you) pay for it. It gets delivered and you have to pay an additional duty, which could have been mentioned as part of the invoice but was not.

SG knows about the duty, even how much it is. So tell me before I press the pay button. Afterall, I'm a stupid American with an A$$H$$$ president which is not my fault. Help me out. Give me a break. Be nice. After all, he put the info on social media, why not the website? Let me know that the price I am about to pay is not the total amount......because when I order some other things from other places the price I pay IS the total amount. How do I know he a small guy with no way to pull strings? Be transparent.

You order from SG, you end up paying more than he tells you up front. Would it be so hard for him to put a line in the invoice to the effect that DHL will collect an additional duty that it is not included in SG prices the way it is in some other companies' prices? The more I think about it, the more I think he is probably not being lazy, he is probably being malicious. Becasue maybe i would not buy it if I knws the final, total, delivered price. He might lose a sale!

 

[rjack321]

SG knows about the duty, even how much it is. So tell me before I press the pay button.

How are they supposed to know this exactly, this week, next week, next year? The OP was too clueless to know the de minimus exemption was revoked and yet the seller is supposed to figure it out on their behalf - and for over 90 different countries all with unique rates depending on the value and even the item classification. The seller is not a customs lawyer or broker, they outsourced this to DHL who charged a fee for both knowing the rates, collecting them, and remitting them. Because just knowing the rates across the globe isn't free, someone has to track those and that knowledge and expertise (and liability) isn't free.

 

[Russjstewart]

Not to mention the facts that US tariffs seem to be subject. to change without warning. Did I see Donny threatening 100% on goods from China the other day. If so you had better hope your orders from China arrives soon. Otherwise they will be expensive.

 

[tursiops]

How are they supposed to know this exactly, this week, next week, next year? The OP was too clueless to know the de minimus exemption was revoked and yet the seller is supposed to figure it out on their behalf - and for over 90 different countries all with unique rates depending on the value and even the item classification. The seller is not a customs lawyer or broker, they outsourced this to DHL who charged a fee for both knowing the rates, collecting them, and remitting them. Because just knowing the rates across the globe isn't free, someone has to track those and that knowledge and expertise (and liability) isn't free.

See post #3 and #9.
SG knew enough to put it on social media, but not on their website where they needed it.

 

[Zef]

See post #3 and #9.
SG knew enough to put it on social media, but not on their website where they needed it.

Forgive me if I missed it, but I don't recall reading a post in this thread where you ordered and/or were affected by any of this. Yet you seem to be arguing as if you have sustained some kind of financial injury by SG. It seems odd that you are making such bold assertions and such vehement arguments when you might not have had any recent first-hand dealings with SG from a business perspective.

You have stated your disdain in earlier posts, yet you keep revisiting it...it is hard to tell what your objective is, other than to continue to rant unproductively about the situation.

-Z

 

[rjack321]

See post #3 and #9.
SG knew enough to put it on social media, but not on their website where they needed it.

Since when is it SG's job to keep the OP informed about US government exemptions or lack thereof? Sure they put it on their social media pages and didn't put some banner on their cart pages. Why should they clog up the screen-estate in their cart with US specific tariff information when the other 91+ countries ordering from them don't need that - they follow and pay attention to their own national rules.