personal import — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right
Thinking out loud about this: personal import — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right. The rules where I live changed between two orders six months apart. Nothing was announced; I found out by reading. Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.…
Why regional stock keeps coming up in every thread on this board.
If the line you want is held in a warehouse in your own country, your order is a domestic shipment. There is no import event, no clearance stage and no notice to manage. That is not a workaround; it is a different transaction.
So the useful pre-order question is which lines a supplier actually holds regionally rather than drop-ships from origin. It is one email, the answer is usually a list, and for anybody who has spent a fortnight watching a tracking page it reframes the whole problem.
Not convinced. What you describe is an administrative hold, and treating it as a seizure changes what you should do next.
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?
Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult.
if it matters, ask somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction
Correction: that is a request for information, not a seizure notice. Different document, different process, different deadline.
the answer for Spain does not apply anywhere else
Which country, and which country did it ship from?
Which country, and which country did it ship from?
Agreed — read the notice before deciding what has happened. Most of the panic here is misclassification.
Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.
a hold is not a seizure and people conflate them constantly