Thread: youshop etc

In my last shipment via youshop I made two purchases from the same US suppler, shipped independently to youshop so that they each fell below the minimum import value into NZ, thereby not having to pay duty. Shipping into youshop was free. Once they were at youshop I requested that they be combined shipping which gets a discount since they only have to so into their warehouse once to send the two items. In the past, these have then been shipped to NZ separately in their original boxes. They did the same this time, but combined the value of the two packages into one (shipment) and generated I shipping document, which put the value over the import limit. These doc's were attached to only one box. One box arrived no problems, the other was stopped in NZ Custom's and I had to pay duty on the value of both boxes. This amounted to considerably more than what it would have cost to have the two boxes shipped to NZ by the US supplier. In an effort to save NZ$7 in combining the shipment it cost me NZ$150 in duty. Suffice to say I was rather pissed!