Govermant want to charge VAT and to do so they need Inovice to be present in the package. Declared value means nothing to them (if you are unlucky to live in country what is strict on that).
You should go to customs and try to explain them, take printscreen (avalon-store) to prove your story, give them a link if needed. You will be charged VAT on whole value + shipping, but at least you will get your avalon.
You should go to customs and try to explain them, take printscreen (avalon-store) to prove your story, give them a link if needed. You will be charged VAT on whole value + shipping, but at least you will get your avalon.
Nah, it's not that. There WAS an invoice in the package and they were charging VAT, but they still didn't release it for me as a private person. They insisted that it's too large/valuable of a package for a private individual and I need to pick it up as a business. They threw some vague regulations my way as justification.
That does not make sense to me. You can buy anything as private person, plane,car, ship etc
.What does dimensions or cost has to do with release? Batch 2 is around $1500? Only if you provided company as buyer, and if invice title mismatch (bitsyscom placed your company as buyer but you want to pick it up as a private person/ or representative of that company) then I assume that would justify it and customs would require to link you to that company. Still, what you have explained I simply do not understand, wierd.Worst part, your country is within EU, so you should have the same customs regulations as any other EU country.
My advice, search exact law or regulation what justify their decision and find out what you can and what is this really about.