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The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

CiDeRmAn · 2012-05-23 19:50:09

And so the cycle begins again.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSSfrIFmk84 And so it never feels lost or lonely, here is the link to the now closed thread, because the past matters man! Hello old friend!

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#5852 17-07-2013 01:59PM

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Los Lobos wrote: »

got stung a while back meself. Have your pound notes ready ciderdude!

Well I fired off an email to them, see what happens, there was a phone number there but no one is answering

This is madness!!!

It's a videogame for fecks sake!

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#5853 17-07-2013 02:11PM

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CiDeRmAn wrote: »

]It's a videogame for fecks sake!

Ah but how else would we fund the six figure salaries, the free rent, the free vhi, free gym memberships, free language lessons etc that our politicians are privy to

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#5854 17-07-2013 02:17PM

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I thought the import duty allowance in Ireland was anything past €220 or so?

I looked into this recently and I definitely don't remember it being as low as has been mentioned in this thread.

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#5855 17-07-2013 02:36PM

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Achilles wrote: »

I thought the import duty allowance in Ireland was anything past €220 or so?

I looked into this recently and I definitely don't remember it being as low as has been mentioned in this thread.

I bought a dress, top and skirt from Japan for €50 and got charged €25 in fees, I know clothes and games would be different but am sure when I saw the €22 it was for general stuff not just clothes. Can't remember was it email or website, I'll check it anyway

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#5856 17-07-2013 02:46PM

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Sera wrote: »

I bought a dress, top and skirt from Japan for €50 and got charged €25 in fees, I know clothes and games would be different but am sure when I saw the €22 it was for general stuff not just clothes. Can't remember was it email or website, I'll check it anyway

C. Consignments of Negligible Value
Consignments not exceeding an intrinsic value of €150 may be imported from outside the EU without payment of Customs Duty. Intrinsic value is the value of the goods alone and does not include insurance and freight).

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#5857 17-07-2013 02:54PM

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CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I can see some penpusher in Customs looking through an Argos catalogue wondering where Namco Museum games for the PS1 are at.....
Bugger....

A couple of years ago I got 4 unboxed super famicom games and sfc controller delivered from Japan, it spent ages in customs. When finally I got their letter for payment, they had based the customs valuation on 4 New Nintendo DS games and a Playstation 3 controller. They had also very kindly applied a special exchange rate to the shipping charges whereby they took all the dollar signs on the invoice and straight out replaced them with euro ones and charged me their calculated percentage on that.

Also don't forget the handling fee they charge as well which, was something along the lines of €15 on top of everything else...

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#5858 17-07-2013 03:59PM

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Achilles wrote: »

I thought the import duty allowance in Ireland was anything past €220 or so?

I looked into this recently and I definitely don't remember it being as low as has been mentioned in this thread.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/money_and_tax/tax/duties_and_vat/value_added_tax.html

Your right, it won't be duty just VAT on anything over 22euro but under. €150+ you will have to pay VAT and Customs Duty.
Anywho, fun times for them finding out how much something is if there isn't an invoice/reciept in the box they might even just ask for a scan of the paypal receipt.

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#5859 17-07-2013 03:59PM

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katharinewheel wrote: »

A couple of years ago I got 4 unboxed super famicom games and sfc controller delivered from Japan, it spent ages in customs. When finally I got their letter for payment, they had based the customs valuation on 4 New Nintendo DS games and a Playstation 3 controller. They had also very kindly applied a special exchange rate to the shipping charges whereby they took all the dollar signs on the invoice and straight out replaced them with euro ones and charged me their calculated percentage on that.

Also don't forget the handling fee they charge as well which, was something along the lines of €15 on top of everything else...

The news gets better and better.
The total cost of the items is €80 including shipping.
I'll just have to wait it out.
I have sent a message to hit.japan, the eBay seller, for details of any included invoice, so I am forewarned in my dealings with the Customs.

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#5860 17-07-2013 04:21PM

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They'll make up the value so best to have a receipt with the real value handy.

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#5861 17-07-2013 04:54PM

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Laziness but rather than type em all out , heres a quick vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE3V0fbrdzU

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#5862 17-07-2013 06:34PM

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Potty mouth

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#5863 17-07-2013 06:54PM

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Retr0gamer wrote: »

They'll make up the value so best to have a receipt with the real value handy.

It does help to have a obliging seller at times like these that has a dislike of writing any numbers over 20 I read somewhere of a seller offering to include a birthday card with any purchase if needed to convince customs it was actually a gift.

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#5864 17-07-2013 07:08PM

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So I got me a Nintendo Wii this evening with 5 Wii games and 2 Gamecube games. Came with one nunchuck and remote with an upgraded motion sensor thing and a classic controller for old games.

Games are:

Monster hunter tri
Silent hill shattered memories
Zelda twilight princess
Red steel
Metroid corruption
.... For the cube,
Zelda windwaker with the master quest disk
Resident evil 4

Also some classics preloaded like..
Majoras mask
Mario 3
Etc...

All for 70euro

Some pics ...

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#5865 17-07-2013 07:26PM

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Monkeykube wrote: »

It does help to have a obliging seller at times like these that has a dislike of writing any numbers over 20 I read somewhere of a seller offering to include a birthday card with any purchase if needed to convince customs it was actually a gift.

You can pay extra on playasia for them to mark it as a gift. I know play.com used to mark all purchases from them as a gift.

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#5866 17-07-2013 07:43PM

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I'm guessing Hit Japan do not mark items as gifts, pox on their houses!

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#5867 17-07-2013 08:05PM

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murphyebass wrote: »

So I got me a Nintendo Wii this evening with 5 Wii games and 2 Gamecube games. Came with one nunchuck and remote with an upgraded motion sensor thing and a classic controller for old games.

Games are:

Monster hunter tri
Silent hill shattered memories
Zelda twilight princess
Red steel
Metroid corruption
.... For the cube,
Zelda windwaker with the master quest disk
Resident evil 4

Also some classics preloaded like..
Majoras mask
Mario 3
Etc...

All for 70euro

Some pics ...

Those colours on that tv are messed up.

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#5868 17-07-2013 08:14PM

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Achilles wrote: »

Those colours on that tv are messed up.

Yeah noticed it after I took the picture just had the leads the wrong way

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#5869 18-07-2013 10:30AM

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Bought an eprom burner from a friendly chap on A.O.

Should come in handy for PCB repairs, conversions, hacks, special versions or just updated revision roms .
Just found out I also need a eprom eraser but they are cheap so I just ordered one from ebay Hong Kong for € 11,-
I have some eproms so when that eraser arrives I will have some practise sessions .

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#5870 18-07-2013 10:41AM

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Cool, our new go-to person for burning roms

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#5871 18-07-2013 10:45AM

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It's quite easy, anyone can do it !

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#5872 18-07-2013 11:16AM

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Casey120 wrote: »

Bought an eprom burner from a friendly chap on A.O.

Should come in handy for PCB repairs, conversions, hacks, special versions or just updated revision roms .
Just found out I also need a eprom eraser but they are cheap so I just ordered one from ebay Hong Kong for € 11,-
I have some eproms so when that eraser arrives I will have some practise sessions .

Can you get new chips and burn stuff onto them? I've sf2 world warrior and sf2 champion pcbs. The champion had no sound originally. It was missing a chip on the board pointed out by someone on jamma +. So I took the same chip off world warrior, put it on the champion edition pcb and it worked. Still missing one sound chip though to complete the other board.

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#5873 18-07-2013 11:18AM

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Casey120 wrote: »

It's quite easy, anyone can do it !

That's "roms" not "rooms"

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#5874 18-07-2013 12:24PM

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Just got off the phone with a nice man in Irish Revenue, and he has decided to give customs and VAT rebates to all A&R users who import goods from Japan!!!!

Eh, no.....

No, sadly not

He has told me that the delay on my Namco Museum is that the computer that looks after such things is "out", to lunch, for coffee? who knows?
Maybe the old 386 has met it's Waterloo, perhaps that extra 8mb of ram they installed in 1998 has packed it in.
Hard to say.

So, I was asked to fire off a copy of my receipt to them, so I "printed" to pdf from my Paypal account and sent it in, hopefully I'll have an email from them this afternoon/evening of my liability and I can pay it and move on.

I wonder if I should mention the other stuff I have incoming from Japan as well, so they can look out for them?

It's like Parcel Motel, but it costs more..... hey that could be on the Customs posters!

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#5875 18-07-2013 12:57PM

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I hope you edited it before you sent it

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#5876 18-07-2013 01:02PM

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No, feck it, at this point I just want to pay it and play it.
He asked me what was in it, I said a few videogames, then he asked me to email over the receipt, not interested in attempted fraud over Pacman tbh.... now if it was Robotron, I'd probably sell my mother for Robotron....

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#5877 18-07-2013 06:47PM

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Took a risk on a 32x from adverts, acquired the link cable from ebay & had a spare PSU.

It arrived today.

Works perfect!

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#5878 18-07-2013 06:51PM

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Modded MD2?

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#5879 18-07-2013 06:56PM

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EnterNow wrote: »

Modded MD2?

Yup. Is there much to modding a 32x?

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#5880 18-07-2013 07:01PM

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Proco Jr. wrote: »

Yup. Is there much to modding a 32x?

Not really no, it's pretty handy

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#5881 18-07-2013 07:29PM

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EnterNow wrote: »

Not really no, it's pretty handy

Best way to mod a CDi

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