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- From: cmbr01@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Camcorder and UK Customs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.171347.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
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- References: <1992Nov19.095540.26679@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:13:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.095540.26679@aisb.ed.ac.uk>, steve@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Steve Hiller) writes:
- > I'm returning to Heathrow Airport from Australia via
- > Singapore. Are there any useful tricks for getting
- > a camcorder, bought on the cheap in Singapore, through
- > UK customs?
- >
- > Thanks.
-
- How about simply paying the tax!
- signed
- your local, ever so vigilant,
- customs officer!
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- Can you plead ignorance?
- So long as you're not loaded down with alcohol+ciggies they may not care.
- I got my CD player thru that way, after going thru green and being searched,
- though I did not know that I was liable for tax at that time. Maybe
- simple naivity would work. It truly did with me.
- Adios, John.
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