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Trouble with Promos

Dovla
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Posted : Mar 27, 2003 17:00
As maybe some of you know, I have a website that promotes the trance scene in Croatia and apart from all the normal info you can find on the site I also have a cd review section. For months I have been writing cd reviews thanks to the kind people at some labels that I don't want to mention now.....Anyway everything was working fine till yesterday...I always got the packages normaly through the post office...but today the tax office got one package and I had to go to them...The package contained 4 cds with boxes so it was bigger (most labels don't send boxes to make the shipping prices lower)...and they told me to show them the bill for those cds...I told them that the CDs are promo materials and that I get them for free since I write reviews...Then they told me that our laws don't allow promo materials from companies to be sent to people....only companies are allowed to receive promo materials of any kind!...Of course this pissed me off but in the end my dad managed to persuade them to give me the promos...but they said that this is the only time they will let it go.....So now I am faced with a problem....does anyone have any kind of similar problem with this sort of stuff...is there a way to evade this....please help           DJ Dovla | Interchill Records, Flow Records
www.dovla.info
traveller
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Posted : Mar 27, 2003 17:17
Isn't Croatia pretty corrupted nation? You pay them a little, you know.

another thing..

tell them u made the cds yourself... and forgot them.. and now your buddy is sending them back to u..           "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."
- Larry Niven
shahar
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Posted : Mar 27, 2003 17:22
Just ask the labels to send it to you in smaller packages and write present on the specified place on the package. That should do it.           ---------------------------------------------
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DETOX
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Posted : Mar 27, 2003 19:02
Yes ask for no boxes and ask them to write PRESENT on the package.

It worked with my big cd orders all the times.           Toodaloo Motherfuckers!!!!!
damage
damage

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Posted : Mar 28, 2003 16:43
they might've taged your address and they'll probably check all packages going to that address from now on. same thing happened to me.

good luck!!
tom anteater
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Posted : Mar 28, 2003 17:55
am i being slow here, i don't see why you shouldn't receive what it is other peoples gift to give... why do the government care? is it becuse they think tax has not been payed or smthing like that?           >>love will tear us apart...<<
Gilad Refael
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Posted : Mar 28, 2003 18:37
yes, import tax.... i think           REHAB is for quitters
Dovla
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Posted : Mar 29, 2003 02:01
thank you for your input people!...like I said before the thing is that the law here in Croatia states that no company may be allowed to send promo material to an individual..only to other companies...the promos worked before for me because they were always in small packages without cd cases so the tax office probably didn't bother to look into them....but since this one was bigger they did....I just hope they don't start doing it to every package that comes to me now...           DJ Dovla | Interchill Records, Flow Records
www.dovla.info
tokyokid
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Posted : Mar 29, 2003 15:20
hey dovla, u got my package of 90 mushroom magazines also as promo , right? it was 2kg without trouble...i think i wrote also "promotional" on it
nobody4
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Posted : Mar 29, 2003 17:29
Import laws are difficult sometimes and vary from land to land. However, some tricks may be used, depends on the toughness of the law.
Writing 'Present' may be useful, what we do in Com.pact is write 'Promotional, not for sale' on any CD we send (also between ourselves), and that usualy works (dunno if it will in Croatia).
also I believe that if u will get a burned CD (not the orginal) with the cover picture it might help, since it is not a 'product'.
Learn the law and learn the holes in it (its made by humans, it can't be holeproof). That is the best thing: Beat them at their own game.

success,
Auspexx           auspexx@compact-records.com
Afterhourz


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Posted : Mar 31, 2003 23:47
yep like I got screwed with a package from USA , had ordered them with trancetrax, stupid customs opened it , had to pay A LOT of import taxes, sometimes that's a bitch...
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