KAding Posted November 26, 1999 Share Posted November 26, 1999 Let me just say this: DON'T VOTE SOCIALIST!!! Get onto the streets and protest against the lazy, unemployed and uneducated getting your hard-earned money!! :)I say we used those taxes to pay for BTS to move to Europe and produce there next game overhere, so those pesky Americans can pay $100 for CM2 Can't BTS set up a little production centre somewhere within the EU, PLEASE!! I mean as long as it is within the EU we don't have to pay for any customs. The problem is that no-one can really tell you how much you will be charged when importing a good from the US! Always that uncertainty!! Anyway, BTS, great game! I already pre-ordered back in April I think, so I should at least only pay $37 for the game. btw, who wants to join me and protest in front of the WTO trade-conference next month, maybe we can get all those trade-barriers scrapped before CM is released, wish full thinking, I know. But we could at least try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Balaban Posted November 26, 1999 Share Posted November 26, 1999 May be CM2 will cost less for CM will sell out? Wishfull thinking. Christmas is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattias Posted November 26, 1999 Share Posted November 26, 1999 - [This message has been edited by Mattias (edited 11-26-99).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy_Eye Posted November 26, 1999 Share Posted November 26, 1999 For the taxes problems and customs, Combat Mission should be send mark as a demo. no price tags on boxes. We always do that We are saving fortunes doing it. And credit card are so nice to do so.... Just giving you some of our tricks. Send me some sell profit oops again those agents at the door...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los Posted November 26, 1999 Share Posted November 26, 1999 Better yet have Steve pretend he's someone's grandma shipping off a box of home made cookies to denmark. Voila, no tax!!! Los Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy_Eye Posted November 26, 1999 Share Posted November 26, 1999 hehe LOS, Problems with cookies is the dogs in the custom area, they try to find explosives and illigal subtances. Since my grand mother cookies are illegal in all europe, you will get badly nail by making custom false statement.... and who know even have the cookie receipies stollen Demo is the safest. Since they small like real CD not cookies. That just my opinion of cooking.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy_Eye Posted November 27, 1999 Share Posted November 27, 1999 I forgot, can i worked it out for the 45$. I can wash tanks and oil mg I can also do sniper netting. Oh.. also take your wife for diner. But if not. I still will buy it, but its nicer to work for nice things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pford Posted November 28, 1999 Share Posted November 28, 1999 Question re: EU taxes How do they charge for downloaded software? Say for instance a free crippled version was downloaded via the internet and to fully enable it you had to get a code from BTS. How does your government know that you have uses a secure browser to pass your credit card information? Does the bank report foreign transactions? This method is fairly common over here in purchasing software. (I have so many manual lying around the house, I don’t need any more.) I don’t know what the internet charges are like in Europe, but we usually pay a flat fee. I.e. $20 a month plus taxes ($5.00) for unlimited access at 56K baud. Even if it took 12+ hours to download , it gets there a lot faster. How do they trace all of this? Regards Patrick Ford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Davie Posted November 28, 1999 Share Posted November 28, 1999 Re: Canada Customs....I started beta testing a product about 3 weeks ago. The CD/manual was shipped to me in a thick paper envelope, clearly marked 'FREE COMPUTER GAME/ NO COMMERCIAL VALUE'. Not only did CC open it up, and ended up ripping the manual in half (eh, it had a swastika somewhere in the manual???), I got arbitrarily charged $20 Cdn. $5 processing fee, plus duty and GST at an assessed rate. Go figure. Now I figure I'll just drive across the border and take my chances. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrodi Posted November 28, 1999 Share Posted November 28, 1999 You are red, you are white, you are Danish dy-na-mite! you are red, you are white, you are being gouged for the right to fight! Ahhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha (but you have a great country, really) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted November 28, 1999 Share Posted November 28, 1999 Pford - yep, this is a loophole that customes would love to close. For Germany (and hence for all EC states), the customs duty for game CDs is (I doublechecked this) 1 %. That's 45 cents for Combat Mission. Certainly not too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted November 29, 1999 Share Posted November 29, 1999 >For Germany (and hence for all EC states), the customs duty for game CDs is (I doublechecked this) 1 %. That's 45 cents for Combat Mission. Certainly not too much. Maybe for Germany, but not for all EU states. That 1% only works if Germany is the first import country. But if someone in Germany imported the games and then reexported them within the EU.... But then of course the manual would defeat the 1% customs tag. Talking about loopholes, they have recently passed a law where re-exporters now have to pay local taxes if they re-export significant amounts (>$40,000) So amazon.co.uk is no longer an option for books. --- Censured comment about **** deleted. --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soma Posted November 29, 1999 Author Share Posted November 29, 1999 Ok, ok ! After finding out, that germany is a warmer country than scandinavia (referred to the taxes ), I just ordered CM and now I only have to wait for the bill and, what is more important, FOR THE GAME ITSELF !!!! Soma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted November 29, 1999 Share Posted November 29, 1999 ChrisB - I am not sure if I understood your post right so I might be a little off, but - the 1% import duty includes "a game manual, the cover box, additional advertising, the CD and plastic CD cover". - according to our customs office, the 1% should be standardised within all EU countries (since January 99). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedy Posted November 30, 1999 Share Posted November 30, 1999 I am from Australia, taxes here are pretty steep to {not as bad as Denmark though <g>). Not sure exactly what the import duties here are but I expect them to be around 20-30%. Talking about revolution, we will have one here if the mongrel pollies keep increasing the taxes on grog.(we have the honour of being the biggest consumers per capita of beer in the world<G>). Had to add that after reading the foreign aid one earlier<G>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonFox Posted November 30, 1999 Share Posted November 30, 1999 Australia-me too No import duties just sales tax if applicable. But since it's a 'free demo' no problem I don't mind our taxes too much except, just like speedy, the ones on beer cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted November 30, 1999 Share Posted November 30, 1999 >ChrisB - I am not sure if I understood your post right so I might be a little off, but Nope, seems you got it right. > - the 1% import duty includes "a game manual, the cover box, additional advertising, the CD and plastic CD cover". Surprise! (Me, that is) > - according to our customs office, the 1% should be standardised within all EU countries (since January 99). I doubt this, I am sure my own country will get an excemption, or at least will avoid the issue as long as possible. Either way I would not want to be one of the first ones trying to prove this to the all-mighty customs office, or the ignorant evil post office. I HAVE paid more than 1% on imports since that date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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