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FireZ

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i faced a damn shit prob...agreed a trade ...my P.A system for a Bass guitar...tat person (T) lived in malaysia...he told me tat for malaysian to bring in things to malaysia gonna pay higher tax! so..he asked me to try n bring in...n my sis kindly agreed wif the help of her bf...so..we agreed the trade on sat (12/07/08) at malaysia (after the check point)...at tat point of time..i jus enlisted for 1 wk..n was being confined..

so...i gave my trust n knowing tat the gonna pay high tax..i tried my best to make it a fair deal...

so..the checkpoint area was damn pack...my sis n her bf was trapped for hrs!!! reached at the checkpoint..the custom ppl detain my sis n her bf for bringing P.A system..n charged them 3.8k singapore dollar!!! T, who promised to meet up chose not to appear..my sis bf called him to come down n help but he rejected (u know the feeling of...knowing no 1 at a foreign place wif the lost feeling?!?!)

now...i nid to fork out the 3.8k to my sis bf, not only tat..i nid to pay him for petrol, his work (is night shift work..due to retain..he missed it)...not only tat..they asked my bro-in-law to go down wif money to settle it...i gonna pay again..

i dun haf saving..jus started my NS (can imagine bah)...
givin my trust...yet in return...tat's wat i got...tat person only mention tat he might gif me his bass which wun cover much at all...

peeps out there...pls beware of dealing oversea...well..dealing locally at most waste transport n time rather than like my case...4k plus!!!

sorry for posting...dunno i post at the rite area..but i only post in bass n guitar section..
 
i feel for you man but my personal rule is, if it's too troublesome, don't take risks especially if there is no guarantee. So i'm afraid i agree with remy that you could have made more arrangements or looked for an alternative trade
 
ya...i agree on tat la... coz tat (T) is quite a regular n lookin through his posts...ppl gave him gd comment n he was pretty sincere...being soft hearted..i tried to make it a pleasant deal..n in between...we did try to make lots of arrangement....anyway.....didn't expect this to happen....
but after all..i'm being polite as in..i didn't mention who is he...coz he haven't replied me wif an answer....
 
Things like this happened all the time. Too troublesome...means no deal bro. Sorry to hear that you've faced with this problem. First of all, maybe you are unaware...all electronics items that passes to Malaysia is taxable. Not in Singapore in particular. That's why, some 'smuggled' the electronics items and some 'bribe' to the right people for the Malaysian Immigration.

There was one time in my life, a friend of mine a Malaysian who asked if I can give my old TV and Hi-Fi to him as I've got a new ones. Well, unknowingly like you I drive to the checkpoint out of goodwill to send it to my friend. He was with me at that time. When we passed the Malaysian Immigration, we were asked what the electronics item doing. Sincerely, I said I'm bringing it to give to my friend whose with me to his home in JB. The immigration officer asked my friend and he deny it. Wahlau eh? The immigration officer insist that I pay tax in order to bring it in. Seeing the commotion, I told my friend to get off my car and I'm U-turning back to Sg with all the stuffs. The immigration officer threatened me...but I said I don't care as I'm turning back. His superior came and he finally let me off but I'm still turning back to Singapore with all my stuffs. I sold it to the Karanguni man for $10 for both as it's a pain for all the trouble.

I've never seen that so-called friend eversince.

That was many years back!

We all learnt from our lesson. What's done can't be undone.

Saluti!
Tetragrammaton
 
no shit... kena taxed 3.8k. just throw everything into the straits of johor lah. maybe kena fined for littering??
 
3.8k is alot of money. On top of that you have to pay other stuff as well.

You maybe be partly to blame for this, but then still that just plain sucks.

I feel you, man...
 
this is really crap feeling man...

kudos to your commitment but good for all forummers to learn here that they need to protect themselves.
 
Hi,

I am a Malaysian - firstly sorry if you've got to deal with crap like this. You should have asked for a non refundable deposit first - unless you know the person really well. Secondly, 3.8K is WAY too much to be paid for customs. A typical electrical product is taxed 10-30%. Now unless your PA systems is above SGD 10K there is very little chance for such a tax. Is there a receipt for the tax? Did you bring the invoice for the PA system when you were tax? There may be an avenue to recover the taxed money. If you have the invoice of the product - then you can ask the customs to reimburse the extra tax.

For musical instruments the tax is 10%. However if you carry one guitar over - they will not tax you. I've done this a number of times. So far no taxes on guitars.

Once again - sorry you had to go through this. You've got to be careful wether be it dealing with local or outside people.

Regards,
Andrew
 
I sold my Hotcake and Crunchbox to 2 Malaysians.

For the Hotcake, the guy was supposed to come to Singapore to pickup some stuff and he decided to get the Hotcake at the same time. So no biggy there.
For he Crunchbox, the guy asked his friend who was in Singapore at that time to help him deal. No biggy there either. Except his friend was quite pervertic. :\
 
Always ask before hand - is this going to be recorded in the receipts? If yes - only then make payment. Else the money is pocketed. Don't encourage bribes :)
 
Many 2nd hand dealers, retailers and studio owners still get their stuff from SG. I even know of some club owners in JB & Malacca who bought a whole set of stage equiptment 2nd hand from dealers here and bring back. Most I have heard them pay is MYR $150-200 for whole range of items. SGD 3.8K seems ..... odd.

I recall recently the news about the Malaysian head of Immigration & his deputy getting busted for illegally issue of visas to foreigners for kick backs. I'm sure you all must have read & heard about this rite?

We can all draw our own conclusions .....
 
gosh..i totally dunno abt the tax thingy!! tat (T) did mention tat malaysian bring in gonna tax a lot..n same for singaporean, but i didn't knwo so much...as for the receipt..is an old set (discontinue i mean)...no receipt...the roland P.A was being produced back long ago...
they did provide e receipt...pretty lost..
my sis bf did also intend to drive back n leave e stuffs but e custom dun allow!!!! they detain the car too...only the person himself allow to go off to raise e money.....
i'll go to pollice station later on for advice...

guys...pls b careful..
btw...to malaysian frenz...dun get e idea tat i'm against ur...jus a matter of custom n e peson i'm suppose to deal wif..tat's all..

* if any1 can help me along e way to solve it..kindly text or call me at 96861924 ya..anyway, i enlisting back 2ml nite (sunday)
cheers...
 
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holy sh*t... 3.8k is alota money for tax... i really think u kena ketok.. that time i bring a small tv set go in, kena taxed $50... also kena ketok... no receipt..
 
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