thecr4ne wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 10:57 am
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 6:54 pm
Just got hit with a $100 bill for the damn Sony C-38B I bought from Japan. Here we go.
How did this go? Which shipping option did you use? Did you receive the mic before the bill or did it show up after? Tariff shit seems to only be getting worse and I've still got some stuff that hasn't shipped yet.
I just bought a decent looking one from an ebay store in japan and they shipped fedex. I had assumed I didn’t have to worry about it once I got the mic without a customs hold, but I received a bill from Fedex a couple weeks later. It was a paper letter with a bill from Fedex to pay online and had all the correct info. It was legit.
It was something like ~ $84 for the tariff (mic was $848) and then a $16 processing fee. Plus I was already paying Texas sales tax on it. All in over $1k but still better than Reverb prices, though I had already picked a relatively expensive one by Japan standards, I wasn’t planning to spend that much. The $700-ish ones looked like total shit and ones less than that were inoperable, so I thought ai was going for a happy medium. If I bought another one I would just plan on getting dead mint if I was already going to spend that much on fees.
I’m sure there’s stuff where bills may never come or come late, but mine wasn’t too long after I received the mic.
