Editing The Pen Addict 433/transcript (section)

== Package Arrival ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly, yeah, yeah. You know I'm super happy with it, and the poster came out great as well. Like it's letterpress, it's nice, you know, it's super quality. I've already gotten pictures of people framing them on their wall, which is cool to see. Oh yeah, the poster is fantastic, it's so good, it's so, so good. It's so good, so good. Yeah, good, I'm glad you approve of the product that everyone else in the world has that you were yet to have. Did you know, Myke, I'm going to get in trouble here, are you ready for me to get in trouble? Yeah. Because I'm preempting future trouble, but there's already been one of these that sold on eBay and Retro 51 sent me the link. Do you want to know for how much?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' $500. You're kidding me. I was shocked again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Why would you do that? Who did that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' People don't, it was a completed, it was a completed sale. Like people don't even have all these in yet, in their hands yet, and I don't, I still don't get that. I don't have a problem with the seller, I have a problem with the buyer.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because surely the, you'd only, well, I don't know if, actually you probably wouldn't just buy it if you knew who we were, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sure, yeah, you may not know. It just may be like a Retro 51 collector that doesn't know about us or whatever. Who knows? But I was stunned. I was like, is that, because I went after they sent me that link, I went and looked for it and it wasn't there. That meant that it was already completed. So I asked him again, I was like, wait, did that, that was actually a sold one for that price? And he was like, yeah. I was like, wow, it's crazy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That is really bananas.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah, good, good. You got the package. I'm glad it sailed right through customs with no charges and like no further issues for you. That was awesome, huh?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, of course I got charged customs on something that I didn't pay any money for.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I did something this time, not just for your package, but for all international packages with Kickstarter. Since you're supporting a campaign, I mark these as gifts, right? Like not merchandise, because you didn't necessarily pay for the merchandise. You know, it's a, it's a Kickstarter gray area, right? For, for shipping. But I have no qualms shipping these internationally marked as gift, which puts a, you know, it should give the parcel a pass, right? Because technically that means you didn't pay for the goods. But you still have to put, you know, you have to put in like small fees for that. How did you manage to get charged customs for this? This is what blows my mind. I don't, I'm guessing you don't know. Like it just happened.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, the, the, what they've done is, I mean, this is what's so annoying to me. Like they, they look at the insured value and they charge me customs on the insured value, which doesn't seem correct to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like. What's the insured value? It was like $30 or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I think it was more than that. I think you put it in the hundreds.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, absolutely not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't still have the, I don't still have the box. But there was an insured value, right? On the, on the parcel. And that might be the, you know what it might have been? Like a standard insured value based on the method of postage or something. That could be possible. But that, I just find it so annoying because like I'm, it wasn't just handling. Like I also paid taxes and I just, it just is, it feels like a joke to me because I didn't give you any money for, like me specifically. I gave you no money. Right. For this. Um, so just you sending me a gift, which is a lot of this is, is actually just a gift from you. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like other things in the box. Yeah. Yeah. Like I gave you, like, there was a couple more pins in there. I give you some stuff from, um, listeners that had mailed that I needed to send you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I paid 11 pounds in import VAT and a 12 pound clearance fee. That's insane.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's crazy. Yep. For something you literally did not pay for any of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. Where no money changed hands between the two of us. Wow. Yeah. So, Matty is saying in the chat that there's like built-in insurance. So, I reckon that that's what I was charged on. But I. Sure. And just because something is worth something doesn't mean that, you know, I, it's so annoying. It's so annoying. I hate it. I really hate it. I have no problem paying taxes, right? Sure. Like, when I do a lot of stuff that I buy from overseas, uh, I have no problem paying the tax on it. The handling fee gets me annoyed sometimes because I don't know why it requires that amount of money. Like, I wouldn't have paid it anyway. But, like, whatever.