Hi guys, i'm planning to buy a set of speakers from Amazon.com, i'll get it delivered to my cousin's address in US n she'll help me to ship it back to KL.

Is this safe,reliable and also cost effective?? Kindly advice.

Thanks ppl!!

cheers

I think shipping speakers out from US is going to be problematic. At least when using vPost or other similar services. Perhaps through FedEx or UPS

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76467

I'll be using US Postal, not sure how reliable it is, apparently international priority mail shud reach within 6-10 days...which is ok if you ask me, but then again how reliable is this compared to FedEx,UPS n such?

And please be prepared to pay 15% import duty + 10% sales tax.

ahhh damn..overlooked on that, but i guess its still cheaper than getting it in KL or SG.

Cannot slip away from paying tax eh ...or under declare it

Custom can always re-value your item if they deem fit to do so. If they feel that your freight charges is too low (since tax is based on value of item + shipping fee), they can value it at higher price value.

Good luck.

Btw, you are not the only who overlook this. Not many people are aware that the duty & tax for HT are hefty in Malaysia. All in all, it is whopping 26.5%!

Thanks for the tips HTkaki, glad to have joined this forum

so, shipped to spore better

I experience a parcel lose by US priority mail service. The tracking code provide only can track with in US. When out of US it is consider normal item, there will be no tracking. Anything happen to it will be not claimable because US post confirm it is ship out of US but Malaysia Pos never receive it. But it doesn't happen very frequent, I only experience once but it is an important item that I have lose.
If it is really important better use more reliable postage service.

Yes, way less hassle and only 7% tax. Then, find your own way to get it back Some ppl do go through all the hassle

This post has been edited by htkaki: Oct 27 2009, 12:27 PM

Guys, how does it work, i mean is the parcel delivered direct to our door step or we have to collect it from somewhere and where do we mk the payment for taxes??another daft question

Thanks!!