Comments on: StrawberryNET Irish Order Intercepted by Customs

By: maria

maria — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:17:04 +0000

i was given a bill at the door by postman from the irish customs. I contacted them and they said once the package value was more than €22 then they can charge i think 21% vat. so if you keep it under that per order, you should be ok. Or the company should put ‘gift’ on the package description. I buy from fragrancex.com. They have free post but put the value on packages.

By: Karyna

Karyna — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:48:45 +0000

Yes I gonna order, because 2 friends of mine have ordered from this site too and they didn’t have any problem with the Greek customs office, so I will let you know what happens. Thanks for your answer Effie.

By: Effie

Effie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:04:05 +0000

I would go ahead and place an order. As long as the order contains a maximun of 3 items, EOF has to give its approval.
For details refer to this site: http://eof1.eof.gr/html/law39.html

By: Karina

Karina — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:49:11 +0000

Christina and Effie, I was about to order from this site…now after reading ur opinion i think i will not, I live in athens, and I didnt know that Greece’s custom asks that approval, is there anybody else that have ordered from Greece?

By: christina

christina — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:51:33 +0000

The same thing happened to me Effie, about 4 months ago (i’m greek too). I haven’t placed an order since. I’m still looking for something else but no luck so far…

By: Effie

Effie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:58:58 +0000

On my last package from strawberryNet the Greek customs office attached a note saying that from now on we must have the approval from the Greek FDA (eof) for the contents of the package.
Is there another site in Europe like strawberryNet?

By: janine

janine — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:34:44 +0000

That’s mad Sue – what a joke! Best of luck getting a refund from Strawberrynet. I tend to only get 1 thing at a time from them now to try and avoid customs charges.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:46:39 +0000

Just got caught for duty on my Strawberry net package today. BUT the customs and excise have now pushed the money collection onto the poor old postman who can only take exact amount or a cheque. Having payed the duty, I asked for a receipt, so that I could get the refund from Strawberry net. The postman told me that I had to contact customs to get the receipt. It was only later that I noticed that An Post has added an extra five euro to the charge for carrying out the service!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:38:38 +0000

Strawberry Net is brilliant I have only been caught by customs twice and even after paying the VAT AND HANDLING CHARGE tHE COSMETICS STILL WORK OUT TO HAVE HUGE SAVING ESPECIALLY IF YOU PURCHASE THE IN US DOLLARS!!

By: Aileen

Aileen — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:04:10 +0000

Have heard a few girls saying Strawberry net sell their poducts at cheaper prices because the makeup is starting to go off or has already- would anyone knoe anything about this?

I have 2 creams a clinique trible action moisturizer and also an Elizabeth Arden cream and had problems with the latter.