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has anyone been able to buy something from aliexpress recently that shipped to lebanon via china post or equivalent ?
Did you receive it/ has it left china?
Thank you.
Yep received 2 items
Its longer than usual but still acceptable (1 to 2months)
Unfortunately only 10% of items on AE have this option now, all the rest are stillusing DHL and EMS God knows why
many items are showing the shipping option but i don't wanna pay and the item gets returned, already happened twice.
DHL(Easyshop)
Dear EasyShop Customer,


In view of the current financial situation, DHL Express will continue to accept Online payment in both U.S. Dollars and Lebanese Pounds subject to an exchange rate of LBP 7,500.00 to USD 1.00 for Shipping Charges, Fuel Surcharge, Emergency Surcharge, Insurance and Clearance charges. Customs Duties, V.A.T., Stamps and all other official fees will remain at the exchange rate of LBP 1,507.5 to USD 1.00 . This will take effect as of today Monday the 5th of October, 2020.


This rate is subject to further adjustments.
Today I received a shipment with DHL from Dubai

Its Value is 108$ and the customs valued it 163000LL.

I paid 37.85$ clearence fees for DHL @7500LL rate = 240000LL
There were no customs or any other fees.

All my items were bought from Amazon USA. I used boxit4me.com to ship them to Lebanon, so first, they shipped them to Dubai, then sent them to Lebanon from there. Avoid this company as the packaging was not good, they didn't put my items in a box at all. And the customer support is bad and some people lost some of their items.



I asked DHL how they calculate the clearance fees so they told me:

1. Customs value the shipment in LL and chargd you their fess
2. You will pay 11% VAT for (Customs fees+ Shipment Value)
2. DHL charges you clearance fees depending on a table for each price that the custom set for the shipments. For a range between 750k- 1M LL you will pay 59$ @7500LL rate
and for 1M-1.5MLL you will pay 80$. You can ask them about that on the phone.

Also, there will be 11% VAT for the clearance fees and stamp fees. You can check my receipt to review that.



And I told them that there is no custom fees for PC Parts on the website of the customs but they told me that they charge 8% for that.

So, it depends on how much the customs will value your shipment.
I don't get it, why do they charge usd for clearance?
I may understand if it was shipping charges, but clearance??
NuclearVision wroteI dont get it, why do they charge usd for clearance ???
I may understand if it was shipping charges, but clearance??
I don't know but they charge USD or LL @7500. Not only USD.
Fedex @3000
Aramex @3500
I'm wondering what would happen if you took your goods and paid them at the official rate.

Hold future shipments, okay, what else?
isn't shopandship still at 1515 rate?
For those thinking of ordering from Beirutronics as it's "local" be aware that they don't actually have any stock in Lebanon. When you place an order they import it for you. That being said I got my item within 5 days for the price agreed upon. I was willing to pay the markup they charge as I needed it quickly. Also I didn't get all of my items, but the missing item was a heatsink worth $1 and they were giving me the runaround so I just gave up.
catdotgif wroteFor those thinking of ordering from Beirutronics as it's "local" be aware that they don't actually have any stock in Lebanon. When you place an order they import it for you. That being said I got my item within 5 days for the price agreed upon. I was willing to pay the markup they charge as I needed it quickly. Also I didn't get all of my items, but the missing item was a heatsink worth $1 and they were giving me the runaround so I just gave up.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I checked their website around two weeks ago and I planned to order some items from them. Now I will buy them online from USA instead.
zizo99 wroteisn't shopandship still at 1515 rate?
Not anymore, as of the 15th of Sep they the rate is 3500, however other official fees (customs and taxes) are still at 1507.5
16 days later
infiniteloop wroteAnyone shipped a graphic card with ShopandShip?
I am planning to buy a RTX 3070 as soon as they are available on amazon and use S&S
The Customs (jamerek) website says that PC components don't have customs but only VAT, is that true?

http://www.customs.gov.lb/Fees.aspx?item=84719000&currency=1507.5000000000&value=550
No it is not true. They charged me once 150$ (including DHL fees) for a 800$ card ( 5 years ago)
HzSamer wrote
infiniteloop wroteAnyone shipped a graphic card with ShopandShip?
I am planning to buy a RTX 3070 as soon as they are available on amazon and use S&S
The Customs (jamerek) website says that PC components don't have customs but only VAT, is that true?

http://www.customs.gov.lb/Fees.aspx?item=84719000&currency=1507.5000000000&value=550

Check my last reply here you will find useful information.
I just asked SnS, they said I must ask Amazon to clearly put it's a Computer Part on the package, not only graphic card, because sometimes some smart asses at the customs will see a circuit board and note it as ''Electronics'' instead of PC Part
12 days later
If a friend from abroad wants to ship some parts to me, how should we go by with it? Will I have to pay fees/custom ?
4 days later
Anyone been ordering from Aliexpress lately? and have you been receiving your packages ?
for the past 2 days my package is in fedex local facility in beirut and it says "Delivery Exception: business closed no delivery attempt" does that mean i will have to wait 2 weeks to receive my package or they will be open on monday and deliver it?
15 days later
Hi
I am getting a phone shipped from my friend abroad. It's their old used phone and I am wondering what steps we both have to take since I have no information about anything. What used to happen is that they physically come to Lebanon and give the phone or anything that we want to ship, but now it's almost impossible to make them come to Lebanon.

Logically, they have to take the phone to DHL in their area, give them the phone, pay for shipping, put it in a package and send it to Lebanon where they just bring me the phone and everyone is happy.

But knowing that we both live in Arab countries where stealing is number 1 task of both governments, I know something would be off and we will have like 100 steps till I receive the phone.

Does anyone know how this works and can help clarify steps from A to Z? That would be really helpful.