Hybrid wroteLifeEngineer wroteHybrid wrote
Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
Can you please share how did you exactly register it? And any fees beside customs?
Got a msg from Libanpost that i have a stopped/held item at Jemrok and that i need to go pick it from the airport.
Went to Libanpost at the airport. They opened the package and checked the phone name/model and gave it to me as a paper to go to DHL warehouse (although it was a regular aliexpress shipping) to ask for someone (forgot her name).
She asked for the phone order bill/receipt. Told her it was on aliexpress. She said fine show me the order. Luckily for me, xiaomi adopts some weird/tricky naming conventio, so I told her it was on my ipad and i don’t have it on my phone (just to evade the true price) and then googled xiaomi redmi 4 price instead of redmi note 4 and showed her that it’s only 120$ instead of the true 200. She was like note 4 and i can’t see note word here, i told look it’s the same. She filled some papers and asked to go to the ministry at downtown to register it (the IMEI needs to be registered on the network for it to work. It will work for couple of months i think without that registration tho, only.). She still priced it at 200000LL tho.
I went there and filled some papers. They asked for the phone catalogs. I got it printed in a nearby libanpost.
Needed to wait for 2 days for the papers to get signed.
Got them and headed back to the airport. They got those papers and made me pay the Jemrok.
Then got the receipt and went back to Libanpost there in the airport and got my phone.
A long ugly process. May look simple now, but it was a pain to drive in lots and lots of traffic and have to be late at work or leave work to go there! I wouldn’t order any phone again until they cancel that bullshit.
Jemrok was about maybe 50000LL if i remember well and if i add parking fees, tawabe3, etc i end up with like 65000LL (neglecting fuel and time and effort).