I use amazon.com, and i had the same problem with customs in kenya.... however i noticed the customs guys in nairobi didnt bother me if i was physically carrying the cds / dvds as part of luggage... (i guess because all the shrink wrapping was removed....).
if you are a fairly frequent traveler out of the country, you can ship the goods from amazon to an address in a european country (the customs duty is nil for individual shipments below Euro 50 from amazon.com.... or if you ship from amazon uk...there is no duty at all since the goods are moving within europe....the same is applicable for good purchased on ebay). You dont need to have an address in europe, you just ship it from amazon to 'poste restante' (c/o the postmaster of little town in europe)... a fortnight before you are visiting... so by the time you are in europe the items are with the postmaster... you show him photo-identification and you can collect your stuff. i have tried it with post offices in small towns, rather than cities (in italy) and i havent had a problem apart from strange looks... On 1/31/07, Aditya Kapil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use Amazon for stuff that I absolutely cannot get here. But there has been an instance where a larger shipment got stuck at the Customs in Mumbai. Got it out finally but would rather not go through that again.
