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FedEX and Brazil. Advice for Brazilians who wants the UGCs
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Fandangos:
Hey all,
Just e-mailed The Video Store Shopper about how much would cost the shipping to Brazil this is the answer for a pack of 100 cases:
Neal Shapiro to me
show details 6:34 PM (7 minutes ago)
The shipping by FedEx International Economy service is $340.19 for 1 box of 100 Universal Game Cases. This doesn't include any duties or taxes which you would be responsible for upon delivery.
Sincerely,
Neal Shapiro
National Account Representative
Even the shipping cost is really insane, as you would expect from FedEX, when it arrive shipped this way you will have to pay taxes, so let me tell you about the taxes.
You will have $42 plus $340.19, the brazilian custom taxes applies to the item(s) and the shipping. 68% for the incoming plus 18% for ICMS tax, this will give you a total $757 United States Dollars that is equal to R$1272 for a pack of 100.
That means $7,57 per case or R$12,72 per case.
You can even think the product is 1.800% more expensive.
The reason for that is that the USA have a economy that are not welcome for outsiders, even the USPS would have a very high cost for this kind of shipping.
The other side is that Brazil have a very bad situation with corruption, a 2 months late custom and a terrible system to avoid money going to other countries economy.
This site gives people the opportunity to preserve video game history and they are doing this very well, for the US collectors. The covers are designed for a "Universal" Game Case, that has nothing of universal to it, since it holds only US game formats and is not sold with a fair price to other countries. So the name of it is United States Game Case for United States Games.
A solution to this would be uploaders and helpers of this great site creating standard paper covers for everybody else. Since a established format is hard to change I present everybody with a very small French site that will help Europeans, Latins and people around the world that do not live in USA.
http://npes.free.fr/
Hope this helps everybody just like it helped me with my personal collection.
Arseen:
I know the shipping costly.
But if you can get hold of doublewide dvd cases, theywork really well see for yorself:
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=2738.45
I'd assume you can find a Brasilian shop that sells them.
Fandangos:
It will be really embarrassing to say but they are not available in my country.
If that was a game it would be -1 USA x -2 Brazil. :'(
The biggest dvd cases I can find are the ones for 4 dvds, 2 in each side and still the 14mm size.
Edit: Seems there is a guy selling vhs cases, if you cut the 2 plastics that holds the tape it might be a solution. I asked the guy if the cover have rounded corner or flat like UGC and doublewide dvd case, let's hope for the flat corner.
The only problem would be how to fit the cartridge so it will not be dancing in the case.
Edit 2: got an answer, they are all used vhs cases, with dirty plastic, those vhs cases are not manufactured anymore =(
So to brazilians:
1. No Universal Game Case
2. No doublewide dvd case
3. no vhs case.
So, there is no solution for brazilian people.
So there is no solu
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