Customs Letter - what to do?

[Razarsharp]

One of my gym's juicers decided to test the waters with ordering overseas. He sent the money in an envelope with a return address. A couple weeks later this customs letter arrives. He says it could be a $5000 fine or 10% of the cost of the shipment. He ordered some 600ccs of primo. They also had numerous things that can happen with this...but he only told me what he remembered from the letter.

Has anybody had problems with this? What can he expect? Should he just deny it? Any advice her guys would be great. This is his first time with ordering and didn't really take the necessary precautions.

 

[ready2explode]

your friend is a moron ordering that much from some one that he has never gotten nething from before....

 

[NORMA-MAN]

One of my gym's juicers decided to test the waters with ordering overseas. He sent the money in an envelope with a return address. A couple weeks later this customs letter arrives. He says it could be a $5000 fine or 10% of the cost of the shipment. He ordered some 600ccs of primo. They also had numerous things that can happen with this...but he only told me what he remembered from the letter.

Has anybody had problems with this? What can he expect? Should he just deny it? Any advice her guys would be great. This is his first time with ordering and didn't really take the necessary precautions.

So u are actually saying that your friend wanted to test the waters with overseas and ordered 600 primos?Considering that $10 per amp is probably the cheapest you are gonna find them, this order was about $6,000......???
Was everything sent in one package?I doubt...there may be more packages coming to his address....ask your source about it.... ignore the customs letter....

 

[Zyglamail]

Basically put we can not be held responsible for what people send us in the mail. Think about it, if we could, we could all send the people in government we dislike a jug of juice, report it and get em all thrown in jail. Usually you just ignore customs letters play dumb like you have no idea what they are talking about and simply have future deliveries sent elsewhere.

 

[Grainger]

did your shit go through Chicago by chance? I heard that the green tape is pretty bad there!!

 

[macho21]

600 primos on a first order, Damn! You are lucky you didn't get a controlled delivery, but they were probably broken down into many small packages. You should be expecting some of those to arrive. Disregard the seizure notice.

 

[Razarsharp]

He should just disregard the letter? No response whatsoever?

What happens if he does that? Do they phone him, send him another letter, has this happened before to any of you?

I told him to play dumb, but what happens next?

 

[Quadsweep]

Basically put we can not be held responsible for what people send us in the mail. Think about it, if we could, we could all send the people in government we dislike a jug of juice, report it and get em all thrown in jail. Usually you just ignore customs letters play dumb like you have no idea what they are talking about and simply have future deliveries sent elsewhere.

What he said! thats what I did!

 

[Razarsharp]

C'mon guys, I know out of everyone here, someone has received one of these letters before? Or knows someone. He's freaked and I don't want to listen to it.

I personally support the local gym supplier so I haven't had a single problem.

 

[Grainger]

Hey is that near Chicago bro? send me a pm or something.

 

[Razarsharp]

It's not Chicago. Why?

 

[LONE_AZ]

Nothing will happen if he got a letter. Tell him to toss it and never admit to anything. If they don't do a controled delivery than there is nothing they can do unless you admit to it.

 

[Razarsharp]

What if it tells you to reply?

 

[LONE_AZ]

Don't reply. Just toss it. If you do not reply then they will close the matter. And never use the same address to receive supplies again, it is flagged by customs and possibly USPS and he may get busted next time given the size of the order just seized. To put in laymen’s terms all customs is saying is we caught you and you better not do it again. Never admit to anything…..Deny … Deny….. Deny….. everything always.