Tariffs and Taxes on China orders from Ebay.

oldschool · 2017-02-28T20:24:02+00:00

I said I would not order anything from China or anywhere outside of North America. But I placed an order today for some chassis mount RCA phone jacks, from China. Now I am sort of worried..... I want to build a box so I can swap the output from my computer to several amplifiers, and need at least 8 jacks. Radio Shack wants about $6 for a pair of them, and they only had 2 packages (4 jacks) in the store. I dont plan to make this thing for several weeks, because I have other priorities, so I decided that I can wait a month or so for this package to arrive from China. I placed the order. 40 jacks for around $8 (with shipping). Cant argue about that price.... After placing the order I was reading the fine print in the ad, and it says "buyer is responsible for all Tariffs and Taxes.... This has me worried. Who will bill me for that? What percentage of the price must I pay? I'd think on an $8 order it would only be a dollar or less, but since this is government, they could charge me $100 or more.... What's the scoop on this? (If I had read this before placing the order, I would not have placed this order).

Feb 28, 2017 20 Replies

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Phoena Greene 9 years ago

I don't remember paying any tariffs or taxes on a Android TV box that I bought from China off Ebay. I bought it to replace a Sony Blu Ray Player that I murdered with a hammer. The Blu ray player decided to piss me off and it wasn't it's lucky day. Just had to wait two weeks for it to ship from China to my door.

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