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Snoops
Snoops aka michael is a 25.72 year old boy, has been a member since December 13, 2006, has scored 77 submissions, giving an average score of 1.58, helping 2 designs get printed.
Hi everybody.
I just got my package from threadless and it took about 30 days and additional 22Euro ( 32 $ )for 6 shirts thats about 3,50€/shirt ( 4.40$/shirt ) to get these lovely tees. However, i only wanted to give this advise to anyone who will order from Germany ( i guess this customs will apply to any package entering the EU countries ).
Anyway my friend ordered at threadless and used the possibility to send it as a gift whereby he had NOT to pay customs but i guess it was still a little bit lucky because i tried it this time to send it as a gift but had to pay them. So, don't worry or panic about extra paiments or long shipping times when you order to germany ( or any other eu-country ) overall with shippment & customs i paid about the same price in € as it stands there in $ :)
I hope this information makes waiting a lot easier. If anyone knows why customs are charged ( i think these are safety-customs for inner-european t-shirt-firms but i'm not sure ) pls, let me know.
Thanks and have fun with your Tee's.

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Hallo, allen deutschsprachigen Threadless Fans.
Ich hab gerade mein Packet erhalten und musste pro T-Shirt 3,50Euro Zoll bezahlen. Außerdem hat es 30Tage gedauert bis die Bestellung angekommen ist und musste dann noch von einer Post in meiner Nähe abgeholt werden. Im Endeffekt, mit Versand&Zoll habe ich ziemlich genau den Preis der in $ auf den Seiten steht in Euro bezahlt, nur so zum kalkulieren falls ihr euch fragt wieviel man hier bezahlen muss. Ich schätze der Zoll hat das Packet ungefähr 14 Tage zurück gehalten weil ich auch schon einmal eine Lieferung mit Zoll nach 16Tagen bekommen habe. Mein Freund hat mal eine Sendung gehabt wo er kein Zoll bezahlen musste diese war als Geschenk-Versand bei Threadless bestellt worden. Ich habe diesmal auch den Geschenkversand probiert, musste aber Zoll bezahlen ( also keine 100% Chance drum herum zu kommen )
Viel Spaß mit den Shirts.

Yours truly Michael.

p.s.: sorry for the bad english

jpiatt
   jpiatt on Dec 05 '07 at 2:56am
I'll have to remember that if I ever decide to move to Germany
roadkill3d
   roadkill3d on Dec 05 '07 at 2:58am
My gawd! I wonder how much mine would cost since i ordered about sixteen tees. :(
trindli
trindli on Dec 05 '07 at 3:01am
i never had to pay anything extra (I live in Switzerland, so its not an EU country, but I had to pay extra taxes for a book from amazon from Germany before..)

I think it depends how much you order at once, I never order more than four shirts at once, i think with this you will not have to pay. So maybe order things in two packages next time, the extra shipping will be less than the taxes
roadkill3d
   roadkill3d on Dec 05 '07 at 3:03am
jeez...



i'll be BROKE...
hershel
hershel on Dec 05 '07 at 4:55am
tja,jong...wir sind und bleiben halt ne bananenrepublik,leider...
Snoops
Snoops on Dec 05 '07 at 4:55am
So maybe order things in two packages next time, the extra shipping will be less than the taxes

guess so, but if i had to pay taxes on both packages i had payed one extra shipping -.-
Muckl
Muckl on Dec 05 '07 at 6:58am
All orders above €22 (including shipping) are declarable (currently about $31). So, ordering two tees or one select during the sale should pass customs...
Snoops
Snoops on Dec 05 '07 at 8:57am
So, ordering two tees [...] should pass customs



two tees + shipping should aint less than 22€

2* 15$ = 30$ + 15$shipping = 45$



hmm but thanks for the information.

Where do you know this from ? do you work at the customs department or something ?

trindli
trindli on Dec 05 '07 at 9:03am
during the sale one shirt is only 10$.. and what shipping option do you use? I just had to pay 8$ for four shirt (priority would have been 12$)..
Muckl
Muckl on Dec 05 '07 at 9:48am
As trindli said... and for me the Economy shipping is enough. So, $30,93 is about €21,09 today (xe.com).



All orders above €22 (including shipping)

I have to correct that, the shipping is not included: Geringwertige Sendungen.



do you work at the customs department or something ?

Not at all! But you can find some useful information at zoll.de – at least if you search hard enough on that horrible website :-)



If you want to see a sample calculation: Berechnung. The duty rate for t-shirts is 12% (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/).

Snoops
Snoops on Dec 07 '07 at 8:13am
thanks for the help.

I'm sorry for the stupid question, but since when is every tee for 10$ ??? and how long will this be this way ???
Snoops
Snoops on Dec 07 '07 at 8:21am
Dec. 16th, i found it -.-
30 days later
tee-nieee
tee-nieee on Jan 07 '08 at 7:45am
aarggh!!



I´m from germany too and bought my 5 tees on the 30th november ´07 and they´re not here...

thanks for the infos...



ach kacke... hab mich so gefreut, dass sie in 3 wochen (also zu weihnachten^^) da sein sollten aaaber sie sind immer noch nicht da :( ich hoffe mal ich bekomme sie bald...



how did you get the information that you should get your tees from the post office?



thanks for your post! ´hast mir ein bisschen hoffnung gemacht ;-)
carolion
carolion on Jan 07 '08 at 8:21am
ach poo, me too!



bin jetzt in england und muss hier auch extra bezahlen. boo eu!
tee-nieee
tee-nieee on Jan 07 '08 at 1:10pm
i want my tees ;((((

now 5 weeky are gone since i ordered them.

i hate the post.................
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