2 words: VIP lane Sent from my iPad
On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Thomas Kiehn <[email protected]> wrote: Marina, I'd be careful with this, speaking from recent personal experience. I brought quite a few iPads back from the States this week, through Sheremetevo, and I was stopped by customs and harrassed for about 30 minutes. Finally, through my stubborness to give a bribe (in the form of iPads or cash) and their laziness to fill out paperwork, they told me to scram and never try it again. I was bringing these for friends and coworkers, not for lucrative resale, but they didn't care. They said that the customs limits apply to items for personal use only. Out of 7 years in Russia and probably over 100 trips in and out through customs, I had never before been stopped when going through the "nothing to declare" line. This time it appeared that they were stopping all males aged 20-35 from my NYC flight and checking/opening suitcases. Discrimination? maybe, but this is Russia. They had a handful of people stopped for iPad "contraband" and were forcing several to write out zayavlenie after having the iPads confiscated. Do this at your own risk. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Marina Lukanina <[email protected]> wrote: Hello dear expats: My friends are asking me to bring them 3 iPods and one iPhone in the USA. Do you think there might be a problem for me to bring these items in in this quantity? I also have my own iPod so that makes it 4 or is it OK? thanks for input. Marina _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/ _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
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