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c/customs·posted 1 year ago by u/julia_erdogan

seizure vs declared value — genuinely asking which matters more

PSA Cold Box ×8 Well Actually ×3

I have had 14 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 28 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 98.4% against a claimed 97.2%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/escrow_evangelist186 points·1 year ago·edited

This is correct. State your country always.

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u/milos_mensa45 points·1 year ago

Do you have an import allowance in your jurisdiction?

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u/border_paperworkMOD109 points·1 year ago·edited

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/came_for_the_coa123 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Jurisdiction matters.

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u/iman_castellanos37 points·1 year ago·edited

Came off after 51 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/ewan_marchand8 points·1 year ago

customs holds vary by season

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u/alcohol_swab_annie2 points·1 year ago

always state your country, advice from another jurisdiction can harm you

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u/ferran_krastev1 point·1 year ago·edited

personal-import allowances differ by country

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u/kian_balogun1 point·1 year ago

always state your country, advice from another jurisdiction can harm you

Disagree on that part. 98.4% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/coa_forgery_watch2 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Jurisdiction matters.

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u/yannick_haddad29 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 20 weeks, not 35. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/ines_lindqvist27 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 58 weeks to accept.

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u/anya_salgado18 points·1 year ago

personal-import allowances differ by country

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u/rekha_mwangi9 points·1 year ago·edited

Small correction: the trial was 14 weeks, not 9. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/ferran_batista65 points·1 year ago

This is correct. State your country always.

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u/mikkel_correia46 points·1 year ago

Which country? Rules vary.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian16 points·1 year ago

the personal import status depends on what happens at the border

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u/britt_abubakar32 points·1 year ago

Do you have an import allowance in your jurisdiction?

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u/jonas_cardoso20 points·1 year ago

the 8mg import allowance is Spain-specific

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u/fabio_kuipers55 points·1 year ago

Stalled for 2 weeks, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 10.

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u/week_two_confused_202613 points·1 year ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls19 points·1 year ago

declared value is personal import, impacts duty

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u/formulary_fighterappeals15 points·1 year ago

Stalled for 4 weeks, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 50.

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u/graph_it_gary11 points·1 year ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/coring_the_stopper6 points·1 year ago

personal-import allowances differ by country

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What happens at the border: personal-import allowances, seizure letters, declared value, research-use documentation and why it is not a magic word, and the enormous variation between jurisdictions that makes most internet advice on this topic worthless.

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