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Originally Posted by alphatrion5
I just did EMS with HLJ and had a $30 duty on top of tax and $10 handling. As far as I know there is no duty on toys made in China. They were clearly marked toys by HLJ but the idiots at CBS marked it as machinery. I bought a Transformers Masterpiece and two Diaclone.
My AMJ missing link came in as well. I bought two of each type and didn?t get one perfect box. One with trailer has damage on three corners.
Last week I received a Masterpiece train bot and part of the picture on the box had been torn off.
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The customs form has a simplified appeal form on the reverse side. It's easy enough to file an appeal for something like that and you will get the $30 duty back (you won't get the $10 handling and tax though). I've done it before.
As for the AMJ experience, I definitely get that all the time. Being in NB, DHL packages seems to get beat up to heck by DHL and their subcontractors in Canada. I've had stuff repackaged at times because the shipping box was destroyed. Most times, the toy inside is fine, but the toy's box is dinged. I don't keep stuff MISB or MIB so it doesn't bother me too much, but it's aggravating. One time it was repackaged after clearly getting wet and things were missing because the boxes had been opened - I had to return those to Japan and get new ones. Very annoying.
But overall price/ease/speed, AMJ and DHL are better than most alternatives if you can pre-order enough at once to split the shipping cost across the items... Better than paying Canada Post's $10 processing fee if you're hit with taxes...