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    • G
      grandmasterben
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      Which jeans are these? Just curious

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        beautiful_FrEaK
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        Yeah, I remember that story of your hassle with German customs. Guess I was just lucky every time I had to deal with customs during the last 6 years.

        Depending on the jeans you might don't need a proxy at all.

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        • 501IH5
          501IH
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          Yeah, it is as you say, BF. With the Norwegian story as an added unpleasant experience.

          As I said, I wait and see. If someone does the right travel and may be willing to help, great, if not, this perhaps saves me from an imprudent expense….. 😃

          Keep your jeans on–-and let nothing come in between you and the denim !

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          • louisboscoL
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            @501/IH:

            As I said, I wait and see. If someone does the right travel and may be willing to help, great, if not, this perhaps saves me from an imprudent expense….. 😃

            hahaha i like that thought. i'd do that sometimes too. leave it to 'fate'

            "Loyalty is a two way street. If i'm asking for it from you, then you're getting it from me."

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              gakugeidg
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              @501/IH:

              Yeah, it is as you say, BF. With the Norwegian story as an added unpleasant experience.

              As I said, I wait and see. If someone does the right travel and may be willing to help, great, if not, this perhaps saves me from an imprudent expense….. 😃

              I thought, that Norway was part of EFTA, i.e. European FREE TRADE.
              But apparently not.
              Switzerland is probably the same.

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              • 501IH5
                501IH
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                It surely wasn't treated anything like "free trade" by bloody Berlin customs.
                Just today I wrote a forum friend a summary of my enraging experiences with these extortionist bastards, reminding myself how violently incompetent (always to the disadvantage of the citizen who was so daft as purchasing something from a non-EU country), greedy, and openly hostile they are.
                Hence this thread…. 😛

                Keep your jeans on–-and let nothing come in between you and the denim !

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                  gakugeidg
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                  Yeah, I was also very surprised when I had to go to customs a few years back.
                  After all, with all the news on free trade I didn't think we still had to pay any tariffs.
                  And in Germany one needs to go to the customs office, draw a number, wait for up to an hour, etc..
                  Apparently in other places like Austria and Denmark everything is done online. I don't know about other countries.
                  But I have to say that my experiences with the people working there have been good. The payments suck obviously, but they're very friendly.

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                  • 501IH5
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                    Then you haven't been at the Berlin customs barracks, right? I would be utterly surprised if anyone would describe the officers, both male and female, working there as even remotely friendly.
                    I heard from JCMx800 that he made good experiences in Hannover. Perhaps this atrocious behaviour is a sad Berlin specialty…..

                    Keep your jeans on–-and let nothing come in between you and the denim !

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                      gakugeidg
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                      No, haven't had the pleasure in Berlin yet 🙂

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                      • Max PowerM
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                        When I look at the custom employees I've encountered so far and add the (often witnessed) sharp tongue of the berliners, I can imagine what it's like dealing with them.

                        @elclintor:

                        > I don't care what people say.. The Max Power way is the right way…

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                        • 501IH5
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                          Thanks for the moral support @Max Power.

                          My last foray to Berlin Customs was yesterday, and while I did (a true first!) not pay a cent this time, I reliably left the awful place in anger, it really never fails….  I had waited for Qinhan's parcel to arrive from Australia, which took quite a bit longer than expected. Had a notification concerning a letter from the USA, that WAS at customs. Content? Some newspapers/magazines concerning the election there in November, sent by a good friend who knows about my interest in US politics.
                          Old newspapers! And the customs vulture idiots require me to visit their ugly den, wait there excruciatingly long, to be told that the storage term had expired and they had sent it back. Thus no payment due....  All my fault for not reading the fine print carefully enough, but words fail me to express my hate for them.....  not to mention the crazy fucking impudence how long they make you wait and the absolute provocation of their deliberate slowness, one bored officer "working" at an excessively leisurely pace where five breezy people would have been called for.  😠

                          Qinhan's shipment miraculously cleared customs at Frankfurt airport and was sent to me quarrel and quibble free. I guess the people there are much more competent, not so hostile and not so "the worst of Berlin" style impudent.

                          Okay. Topic missed, this is a "random rant". Sorry.

                          As the trade shows start tomorrow here in Berlin, and the I hope to see a rep. of the brand in question for the said jeans this thread is all about, perhaps something can be done about my original wish, and if so, only if absolutely definitely 100% with no customs involved!!!!!

                          Keep your jeans on–-and let nothing come in between you and the denim !

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