How much will I now pay in duties to ship a stylus from Japan?


Anybody import a phono cartridge/stylus from Japan since the August 29 when the old $800 duty-free threshold ended? I am interested in importing a vintage stylus that costs about $200. Worried about how much I will have to pay. Do the mail carries charge the duty before delivery? How much should I expect to pay? Any tips and what to ask the Ebay seller?

mrgopal

Sigh.  Speech to text…  I hope you are all good at deciphering what people “really mean” in this modern age. 

Chaos is the word these days.  Hard to know anything for sure anymore until it affects you.    Nobody I know is calling things great.  I probably just need to mingle with more oligarch types, if they would even have me?  Rumor is they have the best hifis as well to go along with the yachts, etc.  Call it the very high end which is way better than merely being high.

Try buying American. I've spent over 15m on eBay in the past few years but never trusted oversea's sellers with anything of consequence except maybe a c.d. Just me. I would imagine a nightmare if something was not as advertised or broke and had to be returned.

My late and helpful comment here is:

*Everything* takes more time, more steps, 5 clicks where 1 used to work.