Any collectors from Georgia who can help me?

Hi everyone,

I live in Turkey where the government is systematically destroying livestock, agriculture, trade and anything creative, in May they changed a law which made it impossible for vintage watches to be lawfully imported in most circumstances (along with many other things)

Immediate damage to me was $1000 - I lost a $700 C-Case to customs and spent $300 trying to find a solution to save it, ultimately failed

I don't want to stop collecting, but unless I move to a different country, it seems I must stop collecting

My current solution is to ask for friends in different countries to receive watches and pay the taxes there, however it's also unmanageable

I'm wondering whether there's a Georgian collector amongst us who can assist me, basically I'd occasionally send a watch to him, pay the customs tax in Georgia, and I'd manually receive a watch once every 2-3 months by travelling there

Does it have to be Georgia ? I live in Baku, Azerbaijan, if that helps, I am more than happy to help you out.

Just messaged you.

Almost right. You mean "saygilarimla" = best regards.
Literally translated = respectfully

They are keeping people isolated from the world with stupid laws that are only for the masses!
I am very surpised how Erdogan still is in power!!
He is leading the country to a disaster and I've heard that he lives in a palace that has 1.000.000 euros expenses daily!
The irony!
And his people are in very bad situation economically!
The politicians and their oligarks live a life out of this world!
You have no idea the rage I have for politicians because they are corrupted and thinking only for themselves!
I would be happy to help you @kaplan if Albania is a country that is easy for you to come!
I think our import tax is 20%!!
You can contact me whenever you want!

Thank you all, it really means so much, I'll send a pm and reply 😀

Indeed things are very weird, even with ambient observations there are a lot of abnormal stuff going on, for example in the past while I was denied taxation within laws, I've observed others given a pass so obviously outside laws. And the worst thing is there seems to be a good v. bad situation going on, if a good person helps you, by help I mean just apply the laws, you can immediately observe them being mobbed by the group that get disruptive directives. Even on the official customs and trade website, there's a vague rule that indicates personal imports are denied if it's for trade, but in practice they apply it reverse as I observed and read, if an import is going to disrupt economy they allow it, but for people entrepreneurs, startups, collectors, hobbyists etc. - things are not easy.

None of these are disputable of course, on the surface they made it appear like it's all to support the internal economy. I thought it was bad before but this recent law change made it hell, I was able to import stuff with DHL by just paying 20% customs, now they reduced the limit for that simple procedure to 150 euros and also added a base cost that's around 300 euros, so you not only pay 20% tax, but 300 euros on top of it if it's above the limit. I decided to go through with it anyway and that's how I lost a watch, turns out you can't import anything used (so no vintage stuff). I've lost around 150 euros I paid to DHL (half of 300) - I lost the watch, I then tried to get the watch transported elsewhere, then lost another 100+ euros in the process, that turned out to be impossible too