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i live in europe and im interested in buyng a DSLR, but im also interested in paying in dollars, euro>dollars, any way this is possible?

amazon doesent want to :(

so i was thinking about ebaY, do you have to pay customs?

also /r/ other places
>> Anonymous
The only way I can see it happening is buying from a US-based supplier which, I'd imagine, will push the price up.

Why do you want to pay in dollars as opposed to euros?
>> Anonymous
>>87602
Normally, in Europe, you pay €1000 for a $1000 product. €1 = $1.44, you do the math.
>> Anonymous
Beware grey market stuff. You will have trouble with warranties and guarantees. The postage is expensive and risky for delicate things and the customs will charge you for bringing it in too.

It's not all bad, but it isn't what I'd call a no brainer do to the risks.
>> Anonymous
>>87607
so if i buy a used camera for example, they will still charge my ass?
>> Anonymous
>>87614

It's only gifts that are exempt. As soon as they smell the money they will want their cut. You either have to sneak it in somehow or take the pain of the relevant taxes.
>> Anonymous
My suggestion is that you find a friend in America( don't necessarily go making American friends for this purpose...) and ask them to help you out with this. Every few months I send something to my cousin because he doesn't want to pay over 900 dollars for a PS3 when he can get it for about 600 in the states. Since he's saving like 150 pounds easily, he says that if I want to play around with the electronics for a little while before I send it, that's totally fine. It looks less suspicious if it's not sent in the original shrink wrap and box, and if there's something wrong with it, I can send it back without any hassle.

It's technically wrong, but economics shouldn't rape someone over to the tune of 1.5x market value just because it can.

Keep in mind, however, that they might charge you some sort of tax anyway. People get in shit loads of trouble for doing this on a large scale, so if you find some amateur sending shit out en masse and he offers to do it for you, pass on the offer. It's not worth getting looked into.
>> Anonymous
>>87617

Anon gives good advice there.

I do know that China and Hong Kong do that kind of thing in a large scale and a lot of people seem to recommend them. They seem to get away with more there.
>> Anonymous
>>87617Here
As far as friends go, I'd suggest family members over anything else. With a friend across the ocean you can get screwed, but the family member( cousin, etc...), you know you'll see them later that year or next at a family reunion or wedding or whenever, which brings me to a variation of my original method: The good-old souvenir trick.

If you're old enough( like mid thirties to early forties), you can easily get a camera back into your country if you go to the states and buy it from a store during a vacation or something. If customs asks you where you got the camera, just tell them that you bought it at a store for your son/ you bought it because some idiot at (insert place here) dropped your old camera and broke it/allowed your old camera to be stolen. Unless you're hauling that camera along with 2 PS3s and a few iPods, they're not even going to listen to the second half of your story before they wave you off.

Heh, my laptop had a massive gaping hole in it, and after going through 8 airport security checkpoints at 6 different airports, only the one in Naples, Italy asked me what was up, and even they literally waved me away after I said "My CD player was broken so I..."