Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:06:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promotional CDs and evil customs agencies. Message-ID: <19980921150619.V8807@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <25283.906018720@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:52:00AM -0700 References: <25283.906018720@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thursday, 17 September 1998 at 0:52:00 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > [ I know that this is typically -chat material, but I'm not going to > reach the people who are actually involved by sending this to -chat ] Following up to -chat anyway. > I just thought I'd let folks know that I've reached a hard, but > irrevokable, decision with regard to sending promotional CDs overseas: > > I'm not going to do it anymore. > > (painful justification omitted) I'm a little puzzled. WC have been doing this sort of thing for years, and before Jack left he had more or less got the hang of it. How come they want you to be involved? The real issue isn't so much that there are problems getting freebies through customs, but that the problems are different for *every* country (and especially India). For the EU, I'd think that it would make most sense to export to Denmark (which IIRC is the easiest to penetrate) and then send them on from there. For other parts of the world, there isn't much tax cooperation. I note that the CDs I got came through with no problems, as apparently did the CDs sent to Norway with my invoice (I got the Norwegian invoice :-), so some countries don't cause too many problems. But the whole thing looks like a WC problem, not a FreeBSD problem. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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