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post #65941 of 79576
10/23/12 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by abracadabra View Post

i always associate all of those threads (great backdoors or whatever, etc.) as being in the creepy mc side of the forum, which is half of the reason i never go there.

Great backdoors is great...it has not pretentions at containing good and interesting fashion. And, well, I love a good ass.

How would you like a girl to dress is getting worse and worse.
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post #65942 of 79576
10/23/12 at 12:27pm
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Originally Posted by artishard116 View Post

pm'd you a few days ago

i'm considering buying a postman. any thoughts about it positive or negative?
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post #65943 of 79576
10/23/12 at 12:28pm
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Originally Posted by conceptionist View Post

Ughh.... just had the worst Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
shopping experience ever.

Ordered a Silent tee on sale from Forwardbyelysewalker a month ago or so.
Arrived about 10 days later, marked att full value with a 25% customs tax bill along with another bill to the post office.
Frustrated, I opened up the package only to see that they sent me the wrong tee ffffuuuu.gif

Emailed back, explaining the situation and that I would like to do an exchange. I demanded that they pay the return shipping cost (I live in Sweden so it's expensive) and suggested that they mark the exchange in a way so so tax is not applied again. They agreed to this. 

Sent it back and today, approx 3 weeks later, I picked it up at the post office - along with another 25% tax bill + the same post office tax. There were no sign on the package that this was an exchange.

All in all, I've paid 150 for a 70 USD t-shirt, and that's excluding the first shipping cost.


I'm probably never gonna order from a US webstore again.

That is brutal. At least it was a fairly inexpensive item. I once paid ~40% duties and brokerage fees on a $500 jacket. Needless to say I will never ship from the UK via DHL again
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post #65944 of 79576
10/23/12 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by indesertum View Post

i'm considering buying a postman. any thoughts about it positive or negative?

the rw's? i like them for the price.
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post #65945 of 79576
10/23/12 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by conceptionist View Post

Ughh.... just had the worst shopping experience ever.
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Ordered a Silent tee on sale from Forwardbyelysewalker a month ago or so.
Arrived about 10 days later, marked att full value with a 25% customs tax bill along with another bill to the post office.
Frustrated, I opened up the package only to see that they sent me the wrong tee ffffuuuu.gif

Emailed back, explaining the situation and that I would like to do an exchange. I demanded that they pay the return shipping cost (I live in Sweden so it's expensive) and suggested that they mark the exchange in a way so so tax is not applied again. They agreed to this. 

Sent it back and today, approx 3 weeks later, I picked it up at the post office - along with another 25% tax bill + the same post office tax. There were no sign on the package that this was an exchange.

All in all, I've paid 150 for a 70 USD t-shirt, and that's excluding the first shipping cost.


I'm probably never gonna order from a US webstore again.

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Originally Posted by TWorksheets View Post

That is brutal. At least it was a fairly inexpensive item. I once paid ~40% duties and brokerage fees on a $500 jacket. Needless to say I will never ship from the UK via DHL again

If you're worried about this you can always send the store an email asking if they will mark down value before ordering. It shouldn't matter whatever carrier they send it with, though EMS is the most likely to get through if they don't (as you're probably aware). Mostly by luck I haven't paid customs for clothes in almost 3 years.
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post #65946 of 79576
10/23/12 at 1:12pm
finally got my rafstros i bought a month ago, held up forever in customs

aaaand theyre a bit big on me, might try wearing with an insole or just put them back on b&s
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post #65947 of 79576
10/23/12 at 1:13pm
I tried on a denim jacket today and as I was looking in the mirror I could hear your voices telling me to burn it.
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post #65948 of 79576
10/23/12 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by wurm View Post


If you're worried about this you can always send the store an email asking if they will mark down value before ordering. It shouldn't matter whatever carrier they send it with, though EMS is the most likely to get through if they don't (as you're probably aware). Mostly by luck I haven't paid customs for clothes in almost 3 years.

 

Yeah, I did this and the first time (when I initially ordered it) they refused. The second time (exchange) they agreed to do this or just mark it as an exchange which supposedly would not get me taxed.

 

The exchange was indeed marked down, but all the way down to 10 USD. I got taxed 17 dollars by the customs, which is exactly the standard 25% rate of the items cost so I guess the customs didn't believed in that value and somehow looked it up.

 

I know the webstore tried to help me out and the customer service was the fastest and most polite I've ever dealt with, but to pay 100% in tax is just absurd.

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post #65949 of 79576
10/23/12 at 1:26pm
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Originally Posted by conceptionist View Post

Yeah, I did this and the first time (when I initially ordered it) they refused. The second time (exchange) they agreed to do this or just mark it as an exchange which supposedly would not get me taxed.

The exchange was indeed marked down, but all the way down to 10 USD. I got taxed 17 dollars by the customs, which is exactly the standard 25% rate of the items cost so I guess the customs didn't believed in that value and somehow looked it up.

I know the webstore tried to help me out and the customer service was the fastest and most polite I've ever dealt with, but to pay 100% in tax is just absurd.

Yeah I forgot about the second time around. That does really suck. Kind of funny cause in my experience Forward has been one of the best stores to order from as an American. Free 2 day shipping, free return shipping and (though it used to be better) a constant code (actually they might not do this anymore). I haven't order from them in quite some time though.
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post #65950 of 79576
10/23/12 at 1:27pm

I have payed that much every time I´ve ordered from Mr. Porter. Fortunately I´ve only ordered 3 times, but still, customs and DHL are the worst combination.

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post #65951 of 79576
10/23/12 at 2:00pm
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Originally Posted by conceptionist View Post

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Ughh.... just had the worst shopping experience ever.

 

Ordered a Silent tee on sale from Forwardbyelysewalker a month ago or so.

Arrived about 10 days later, marked att full value with a 25% customs tax bill along with another bill to the post office.

Frustrated, I opened up the package only to see that they sent me the wrong tee ffffuuuu.gif

 

Emailed back, explaining the situation and that I would like to do an exchange. I demanded that they pay the return shipping cost (

 

 

I live in Sweden 

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

 

so it's expensive) and suggested that they mark the exchange in a way so so tax is not applied again. They agreed to this. 

 

Sent it back and today, approx 3 weeks later, I picked it up at the post office - along with another 25% tax bill + the same post office tax. There were no sign on the package that this was an exchange.

 

All in all, I've paid 150 for a 70 USD t-shirt, and that's excluding the first shipping cost.

 

 

I'm probably never gonna order from a US webstore again.

 

 

 

whaaat, how did I not know that (I mean, aren't that many swedes on here, especially not in SW&D) fistbump.gif

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post #65952 of 79576
10/23/12 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by caseyfud View Post

I tried on a denim jacket today and as I was looking in the mirror I could hear your voices telling me to burn it.

denim jackets can look good in the right context.

see: visvim.
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post #65953 of 79576
10/23/12 at 2:29pm

Have been waiting for a parcel from rakuten.jp for fucking ages now, the tracking says it has been being "retained" for about 5 days now, anyone know what this means? do I need to go and pick it up from somewhere or??

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post #65954 of 79576
10/23/12 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by kindofyoung View Post

 

whaaat, how did I not know that (I mean, aren't that many swedes on here, especially not in SW&D) fistbump.gif

Screw the Swedes, need more Danes.

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post #65955 of 79576
10/23/12 at 2:55pm

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conceptionist 
"Lund. Ärkerivaler universitetsstäder emellan!"

Lund ain't got shit on Uppsala! laugh.gif

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