signature plastic from Europe

[Matt3o]

we are trying to set up a GB for an elvish keyboard ( http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=35842.0 ) and I'm wondering if anyone has experience in placing order to SP from Europe. I'm particularly worried about custom taxes and shipping expenses. Would it be better to find someone in the US to handle the order? (it's a PBT dye-sub'ed keyboard if that matters)

Thanks

[dirge]

You'd need someone in the states to handle the cash, or you'll get stung bud.

[biezpienmaize]

Regarding taxes, check your local laws. However, common practice to ship from outside EU is to ask the seller to declare shipment as gift and specify the price as low as possible (but not something as suspicious as, for instance, 10$ for a batch of SSDs). Usually works well, but some sellers (like wasdkeyboards) refuse to do this and this basically means additional ~20+ % for total costs.
Ideally, find a person who is travelling from U.S. to your location, order to his/her address and arrange some kind of compensation for the effort of transporting your stuff. It's very nice to have relatives in USA

[Peter]

Regarding taxes, check your local laws. However, common practice to ship from outside EU is to ask the seller to declare shipment as gift and specify the price as low as possible (but not something as suspicious as, for instance, 10$ for a batch of SSDs). Usually works well, but some sellers (like wasdkeyboards) refuse to do this and this basically means additional ~20+ % for total costs.
Ideally, find a person who is travelling from U.S. to your location, order to his/her address and arrange some kind of compensation for the effort of transporting your stuff. It's very nice to have relatives in USA

Just a heads-up : A Customs-declaration is serious 'Official business' .
Lying is about as bad as forging any other 'official document', including bank-notes .
The person giving false information could GO TO JAIL !
The person asking her to do so is instigating a crime and if you both agree, it could end up as 'conspiracy to defraud' !

Shipping from the USA isn't so bad when you are dealing with established corporations, but local sales-taxes and customs-fees can be a killer .
I ended up paying nearly $US 90 including sales-tax and customs-fees for a single set of unicomp-caps, retaling for $US 30 .

So, my advice is that you start with checking out how much the import-expenses amount to before you do anything else ..

[Sleabo]

We might be able to help very soon with Dye sublimated PBT keycaps, and are based in UK (QWERkeys)

[Matt3o]

We might be able to help very soon with Dye sublimated PBT keycaps, and are based in UK (QWERkeys)

very interesting, please keep me posted

[guilleguillaume]

We might be able to help very soon with Dye sublimated PBT keycaps, and are based in UK (QWERkeys)

very interesting, please keep me posted

This sound fantastic.

[The_Beast]

Honestly I would try to find someone in the US to handle the order since your going to pay customs fees to get it into the country and then to ship it back to the US (which I'm guessing a majority of the orders will be coming from) will take a long time and incur a lot of extra fees