[Arm-netbook] Crooks at parcel force

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Oliver Kiddle <okiddle at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- On Thu, 18/2/10, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have just received a letter from
>> them saying that VAT is payable on the laptop.
>> OK, that doesn't worry me: 8 quid.
>> But they also want ''parcelforce clearance fee'' of #13.50
>
> I've finally got mine after paying 6 Euro tax (8 quid sounds a bit high). Thanks Adam and Luke.
>
> The letter from the German customs office demanded two copies of the invoice in German and bank records to show how much I had paid. I didn't bother with all that and showing them the mainboard photo by way of a description of the package contents seem to frighten them into not asking further questions.

 *lol* :)

 well this _is_ genuinely an engineering project after all: we're
engineering debian-arm linux onto a very new ARM netbook design and
providing feedback to the factory.  far from being a "pack of lies" to
escape customs duty, that _is_ actually the truth!