Well it seems I've been having a bit of hard luck with customs this past year, first Finnish customs makes off with my super-bomb to Ekans during WAR without as much as a reach around :angry: .
Then on Friday I get a letter from German Customs that they have a certain package from a "Mr Smokyballs" (Brad used his real name) and I need to send them the bill of sale. Now knowing that Brad was planning on blowing my mailbox up once again in a long drawn out artillery battle we have been having, I was like "Oh Shit, what did he send me this time?"
So I call up Weiden Customs Office and talked to a pleasant gentleman named Herr Bauer who informed me of the current Laws regarding the import of tobacco products in Germany.
1) You are allowed a maximum of 10 cigars with no weight limit
2) More than 10 cigars are allowed as long as they do not weigh over 250 grams.
So I tell him my story and apologize stating I didn't know and that ignorance is however no excuse, and I'd be more than happy to pay whatever tax charges I had incurred.
He says to me, "Herr Adams, I need to make a few phone calls, please give me your phone number and I'll call you back.
So here I am sitting in my office biting my nails, hoping that I wont have to sell my 5 year-old to afford the charges or that they decide to say "Sorry but no cigar!" and keep the package.
After a few hours I receive a return call from Herr Bauer and he states, "Herr Adams, we are packing the box up and sending it your way free of charge, we called the local cigar store (My B&M for the last 15 years) And the owner said the cigars in the box were only worth 60 to 80 € cents each, and so that makes the tax charge fall away.
I say goodbye, stare at the wall for a few mins and then call my B&M... Frau Herzog answers the phone and states, HA! I knew it was you! Your the only Herr Adams who buys cigars from me. Then she laughs and asks "So how much are the cigars really worth?" :laugh:
I told her I have no idea, but if she wanted some of them she was more than welcome to them. She replied thanks for the kind offer, but she only smokes Cubans LOL and to stop in the store soon and spend a lot of money and that would be thanks enough.
So whats the moral of the story?
One, Smokyballs is a serious hardcore Brother, and hard to keep up with in battle, and two having a good relationship with your local B&M is worth more than gold.
*edit* due to spelling
Then on Friday I get a letter from German Customs that they have a certain package from a "Mr Smokyballs" (Brad used his real name) and I need to send them the bill of sale. Now knowing that Brad was planning on blowing my mailbox up once again in a long drawn out artillery battle we have been having, I was like "Oh Shit, what did he send me this time?"
So I call up Weiden Customs Office and talked to a pleasant gentleman named Herr Bauer who informed me of the current Laws regarding the import of tobacco products in Germany.
1) You are allowed a maximum of 10 cigars with no weight limit
2) More than 10 cigars are allowed as long as they do not weigh over 250 grams.
So I tell him my story and apologize stating I didn't know and that ignorance is however no excuse, and I'd be more than happy to pay whatever tax charges I had incurred.
He says to me, "Herr Adams, I need to make a few phone calls, please give me your phone number and I'll call you back.
So here I am sitting in my office biting my nails, hoping that I wont have to sell my 5 year-old to afford the charges or that they decide to say "Sorry but no cigar!" and keep the package.
After a few hours I receive a return call from Herr Bauer and he states, "Herr Adams, we are packing the box up and sending it your way free of charge, we called the local cigar store (My B&M for the last 15 years) And the owner said the cigars in the box were only worth 60 to 80 € cents each, and so that makes the tax charge fall away.
I say goodbye, stare at the wall for a few mins and then call my B&M... Frau Herzog answers the phone and states, HA! I knew it was you! Your the only Herr Adams who buys cigars from me. Then she laughs and asks "So how much are the cigars really worth?" :laugh:
I told her I have no idea, but if she wanted some of them she was more than welcome to them. She replied thanks for the kind offer, but she only smokes Cubans LOL and to stop in the store soon and spend a lot of money and that would be thanks enough.
So whats the moral of the story?
One, Smokyballs is a serious hardcore Brother, and hard to keep up with in battle, and two having a good relationship with your local B&M is worth more than gold.
*edit* due to spelling
But ya one lucky bastage tho. Good thing they have no idea the value of the package cuz I can only imagine.
