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  • Lee Duna
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    211 months ago

    No import duties? Lucky you. Here, I can’t even buy a Pixel phone without paying expensive import duties (duty-free limit of 50 dollars). Not to mention I have to register IMEI on the govt website.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      No, we normally have to pay duties too (and yes Pixel phones are quite expensive here because of it), but Minisforum managed to bypass it somehow.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      111 months ago

      I got my Pixel second hand off Trade me, less than a year old and an awful lot cheaper than a new one!

      • Lee Duna
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        211 months ago

        Our customs are all asswipes, even if you buy a second hand phone. They’ll impose import duties as a new phone.

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          211 months ago

          You’re not able to buy second hand locally? I know Pixels aren’t sold too widely so I wouldn’t be surprised if you can’t.

          • Lee Duna
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            11 months ago

            It’s worthless, the importers bribes our customs. So the registered IMEI can be removed from database at anytime and the phone becomes no signal.