Ho ordinato qualcosa per la mia piccola attività all’estero perché non ho trovato un produttore locale. Su 83€ devo pagare chf 33 di spese. Questo è ridicolo. Vorrei che il sistema fosse diverso, forse potremmo essere i nostri broker?
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di Expat_zurich
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Yeh i know this is also with amazon we needed to pay 50chf for one package of 20chf
If you live close enough to a boarder or have a friend that is a frontelier…you have options.
The broker fees are ridiculous! Everything is now an automated process the import. But that “service” is 25CHf it’s a joke.
It will always be near that there is a minimum something like 20 which is always that regardless of the price of the goods
Then the rest is a percentage
I’ve said it before: Never mind the Pirate Party, what we need is a Smuggler Party.
I ordered a product from Turkey a few weeks ago, cost was 59.-, which I knew was under the limit for VAT to be applied (if your product costs less than 65.-, you do not need to pay Tariffs).
Then UPS knocked on my door and asked 33.- in order for me to receive the package.
They decided on their own to do the legal paperwork even though there is no need to do so. And since they did it, I had to pay the fee.
I tried for weeks to get a clear explanation as of why. In the end it turned out that, in fact, they do have the legal right to do so.
This is absolutely insane in my opinion. I did have to pay the fee in order to receive my product. They even said that if I turned the package down, I’d STILL have to pay since they already did the paperwork.
This ssystem is completely rigged and it must be reviewed.
I gave up “importing” stuff when I ordered a simple military hat for 37€ in Germany…
I was charged 18.03€ for DHL “Premium” delivery (a premium which arrived after 7 days).
Then DHL charged me 20 more swiss francs for “Importation Fees (13), Administrative fees (3% = 1.58) and VAT”
But since 2025 DHL adds the VAT on their 3% fees, which made my order go just over 5.- of Swiss VAT. So they can charge more importation fees even if the original order value was only 52.70 Swiss francs and should have stayed under the Swiss limit of 63 Swiss francs.
A complete joke to me. I payed nearly as much as the product price in shipping and importation costs.