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I bought a watch from Australia once. It was sent EMS connecting to USPS. Fully declared, but no Customs Duty charged.
Each state may charge a use tax (generally equal to sales tax). Unlike the EU, there is no national system for use tax. Each state has its own rules on how this is collected. For personal purchases, you are more or less on the honor system. Although if you buy on many websites (including eBay and Amazon) they just charge you the use tax and pay it for you.
One common denominator among the states is that they can’t use the post office to collect. It is a federal agency.
Lack of uniformity is a distinctly American trait.
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Is there much interest from people btw if I put a bit more effort into these, I know prices have gone up a lot but there are still some 90s / 2000s Omegas that are great watches at great value points, they’ll all be a lot more than the vintage Omegas like geneves and devilles which I tend to focus on there, just not sure if people are keen?
It’s sort of a bizarre thing that there’s an honor system on tax on imports but then so many people from the US don’t know what taxes to pay or how to pay them either, really can’t think of another country that has taxes that complicated or poorly understood.
Is there much interest from people btw if I put a bit more effort into these, I know prices have gone up a lot but there are still some 90s / 2000s Omegas that are great watches at great value points, they’ll all be a lot more than the vintage Omegas like geneves and devilles which I tend to focus on there, just not sure if people are keen?
Z-33 going no reserve in 10 hours, make sure to note the rubber strap has been sized to 7.5 inches so if you have a larger wrist you’ll need to buy a replacement, these rarely are seen going no reserve used so could be a good opportunity to pick up one of Omega’s most unique speciality watches
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334386356090?hash=item4ddafadf7a:g:fDwAAOSwIJ5iRdGO&LH_Auction=1
Z-33 going no reserve in 10 hours, make sure to note the rubber strap has been sized to 7.5 inches so if you have a larger wrist you’ll need to buy a replacement, these rarely are seen going no reserve used so could be a good opportunity to pick up one of Omega’s most unique speciality watches
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334386356090?hash=item4ddafadf7a:g:fDwAAOSwIJ5iRdGO&LH_Auction=1
because most people don’t know it exists
Great watch - that hasn’t seen the price skyrocket. 861 movements routinely sell for nearly this price. I owned one for a time a few years ago (white dial). Comfortable and good looking (no movement spacer makes it smaller than the Moonwatch).
One downside for me was the omega script. I prefer about any other writing
