Shipping + import tax

From what i know it's just a plain box. However probably the company name Fakku is known. Either that or they somehow put me on an always check list for no reason I can think of.

Every book they charge me roughly 19 dollars. This time it came with 2 books so they charged me around 37~
Last time they charged me 19 for 1 book.
And the time before another 19 for 1 book.

Every Single Time.

Yes I have, though it may also be cause I live in Ontario. I've noticed that certain provinces do stupid things that increase the price of imported goods.

The law btw is that anything worth less then $20 in the originating countries currency will be import tax exempt. It used to be $60 but it was changed by our (Maximum sarcasm on!) "lovely Prime Minister" (Maximum sarcasm off) Steven Harper.



I don't know about you but I actually have no import tax as long as I buy the Fakku books individually.

Your getting the import tax might actually be a stupid British Columbia thing.



Also sounds like you have a bunch of assholes that run your post office. I've never had them open my package and I know 100% that what they did is illegal and you can take them to court for that. Opening packages without a police permit (or whatever it's called) is completely illegal.

Did it have to be CASH ON DELIVERY?

It's always cash on delivery if there is import tax involved. The only way you could avoid tax on delivery is if you yourself went to the border to pay for the goods you bought to go through the border, and then drove your own package back to your house/apartment/condo.

Doesn't sound right, fakku needs to get somebody on that

Try using Fedex

You obviously don't know what you are talking about. If you buy something from another country and have it shipped to you, when it crosses the border you need to pay import taxes, this is a federal level law. If you try and get around this, you go to jail cause it's illegal. Doesn't matter which shipping company you use.

This sucks to hear. Hardly anything worth buying online that is less than 20$. I use to purchase quite a bit of stuff internationally (untranslated books, figures, and stuff you can't get locally) but I'd kinda laid off it for the past couple years. I'll be careful next time I want to order something.

don't know how much it would help, but could you post a picture of the Import tax Reciept? So we can clearly see what they charge you.


And I'm too tired to think this through properly. But $20 threshold for import tax was mention. To get the Book and Digital Combo costs 19.95, which I guess with tax or whatever breaks the $20 barrier. If one could buy just the Book and not get the Digital copy for 2 dollars or so cheaper, would that get under the $20 limit?

Being able to only buy the book without the digital copy sounds nice to me.
The price would be cut by half and any fees for people from outside the US would be lower. I would also like to purchase some books, but 20$ + 24$ shipping + import fees (I live in Germany, so anything above 22€ (~24,5$) costs if they pick it out) are too high for a simple book in my opinion.

Except the digital is a freebie on the real book. Your book will still be 19.95. Only option is them to falsify the custom declaration and Jacob won't do it for the reason of the fine to cheat the tax man and false reporting on a federal form.

ok what about Fakku! Gold? I think Jacob was considering giving a 10% to members. That might work, and Gold's membership cost is about equel to one or two import taxes on books.

Funny that you say that because i have the receipt for the discount and it was on the shipping and not the book. If they fix it to the book then yeah that be an option. At least the paypal did that. Fakku receipt just had discount before total.

Sorry I don't currently have the receipt, however I can tell you now books are not included in the under 20 dollar no import tax according to customs. One way I can see to reduce cost for some of us that fall under this insane import tax like me is to have Fakku charge importing fees on the site like Rightstuf does (12% shipping to BC Canada). It'd be cheaper to pay a consistent import fee on the site than to be caught by customs which over charges each time. For example my 400 dollars worth of comics and anime only came around 50 dollar import tax when charged by rightstuf during checkout. Rather than 1 book coming to 20 dollar import tax. However that would bring the issue of people not being charged import tax complaining the prices going up slightly.

Actually if you don't live in the States then you don't actually pay sales tax, since that only applies to actual US residents, so the total stays at $19.95

So you see getting both the physical book and the digital you can stay under the $20 limit.

I never got blacklisted on anything. I even have a Nexus pass lol.
Ever since I started importing Fakku books this has happened. Never on my other shipments.

My question to you is if you are using the default delivery method which is having the books be delivered to you via the postal service. If not, then that might be what the problem is. Cause if you are getting them delivered via the US postal service which hands off to Canada Post then having your mail opened is against the law.

Other delivery services (like FedEx) can open and inspect your packages because when something is delivered by a different company then the postal service it isn't classified as mail. Only something that is delivered by the postal service is classified as mail and is protected under the law from being opened.

It is delivered by the default delivery service from this site. Also doesn't customs have the right to open packages to inspect?

Not if it's classified as mail. Cause it's Canada Post that actually does the customs inspection, or it should be them anyways. Here in Ontario they always do the customs inspections themselves.