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solo220 wroteI paid 53 $ for an item costing 35$ to be shipped on DHL but after the item arrived DHL asked for another 22$ : ( they claimed it's for Lebanese customs , when i checked the billing details see what i found .
http://i.imgur.com/cAPdGCG.jpg

it looks like DHL is happy with Lebanese customs because they get more money from us for nothing.
so if the item is not urgent don't order using DHL because you will end up paying more than twice the item price.
@solo220, 53-35= 18$ is the shipping fee (per KG, for DHL)
the rest is for the lebanese customs which is insane, sometimes its very low, sometimes its very high (usually high)
once i ordered a backpack for 50$ it costed 100$ (they counted it as 2 KG + customs fees...)
@ironman my problem was that DHL is charging 11.6$ for clearance not the customs , they lied about that the customs taking the 22$, customs duty was 1.76$ only which is reasonable.
the funny thing is that there is vat on whatever you pay , i wonder why they didn't take 10% vat on vat . :-P
solo220 wrote@ironman my problem was that DHL is charging 11.6$ for clearance not the customs , they lied about that the customs taking the 22$, customs duty was 1.76$ only which is reasonable.
the funny thing is that there is vat on whatever you pay , i wonder why they didn't take 10% vat on vat . :-P
yea, you are right, but unfortunately, there is no other way to ship from the US to lebanon...
you know whats worse than that? when i buy from ebay, i pay commission to the paypal guy, shipping from the US to the US, then shipping from the US to lebanon, just crazy.
2 months later
Can anyone share his Billing Address form? I read that it should be your Lebanese address and not your virtual mailbox address. I am curious on how to fill in this address ... Does it work if I fill in anything inside?
themike10452 wroteCan anyone share his Billing Address form? I read that it should be your Lebanese address and not your virtual mailbox address. I am curious on how to fill in this address ... Does it work if I fill in anything inside?
I usually fill it with the same address I filled on my credit card application form.
themike10452 wroteCan anyone share his Billing Address form? I read that it should be your Lebanese address and not your virtual mailbox address. I am curious on how to fill in this address ... Does it work if I fill in anything inside?
Usually I use this form for my billing adress:

[Floor], [Building's Name or No.]
[Street Name], [Area]
[City], [Country]

Example:
2nd Floor, Al Khatir Bld,
Brasil Street, Hamra
Beirut, Lebanon
silverfox wrote
themike10452 wroteCan anyone share his Billing Address form? I read that it should be your Lebanese address and not your virtual mailbox address. I am curious on how to fill in this address ... Does it work if I fill in anything inside?
Usually I use this form for my billing adress:

[Floor], [Building's Name or No.]
[Street Name], [Area]
[City], [Country]

Example:
2nd Floor, Al Khatir Bld,
Brasil Street, Hamra
Beirut, Lebanon
Amazon requests a ZIP Code as well ...
themike10452 wrote
silverfox wrote
themike10452 wroteCan anyone share his Billing Address form? I read that it should be your Lebanese address and not your virtual mailbox address. I am curious on how to fill in this address ... Does it work if I fill in anything inside?
Usually I use this form for my billing adress:

[Floor], [Building's Name or No.]
[Street Name], [Area]
[City], [Country]

Example:
2nd Floor, Al Khatir Bld,
Brasil Street, Hamra
Beirut, Lebanon
Amazon requests a ZIP Code as well ...
The Lebanese standard ZIP Code is 9999 9999.

A tip: Include your phone number in the address, like in the Address line 2: CALL 76 899 ...
5 days later
nuclearcat wroteIt is funny that most of Lebanese people don't know that zip codes exists for their country :)
For example Dawra - 1202.
I grabbed once list from some website and added to my wiki:
https://nuclearcat.com/mediawiki/index.php/Lebanon_postal_codes
There's no point in them, for shipping purposes I always use 9999 9999 including the city's name.
nuclearcat wroteIt is funny that most of Lebanese people don't know that zip codes exists for their country :)
For example Dawra - 1202.
I grabbed once list from some website and added to my wiki:
https://nuclearcat.com/mediawiki/index.php/Lebanon_postal_codes
Except that zip codes in Lebanon are 8 digit codes (first 4 are the region and last 4 which only libanpost knows are the building). I recall @Samer saying that you can call libanpost to get your full postal code. But I don't see a point if other shipping services don't know it.
I recall @Samer saying that you can call libanpost to get your full postal code. But I don't see a point if other shipping services don't know it.
Indeed, I compared my 8 digit postal code (that I got from Liban Post) to the list that nuclearcat posted, it seems it's a different system entirely. I have no idea which one is still actively used. The nice thing though is that usually they assign the same mail man to area, so if you started shipping things often, the guy will recognize you by name. Your goal then is to get the item to the right Liban Post distribution center (the one nearest to your house).
Just FYI. Got today insider info that because people lately buy all commodity stuff on aliexpress - customs going to charge high fees for all packages coming from China. When it will start - i don't know.
Guys,

I heard from a friend that the Lebanese customs will be imposing fees on items ordered from AliExpress.
I hope he is wrong and I hope it is not true but I just wanted to share it.

All items under 5$ you will pay 5,000 LL
And between 5$ and 10$ it is 10,000 LL
and it gets on and on...

Again, I hope it's a rumor but it will be sad to see it happening!

Regards,
A week ago, i ordered 3 items from amazon, cost was 70$ exactly, shipping with borderlinx WITHOUT custom's fees was 71$.
seriously i cannot believe how this is going, AliExpress was the only solution for buying cheap items.
when will this become effective ?
god dammit I just ordered about 400$ of items
@tarek I'd cancel those if possible, believe me once it is effective you will be A precious hunt, enough said ;)
Edit: adding to the postal code discussion, I think the code provided to libanpost is the postal code for libanpost itself and not yours.
In short, libanpost branches have different 8 digits postal codes, that's my thought, it could be wrong...
Another thought would be that the first 4 digits are the ones provided by nuclearcat, and the other 4 digits are the extension, which determines your exact location, within the same "district or area" determined by the first 4 digits.
Shit, If the gomrouk thing is true, it's gonna be really bad. Hahah

However I doubt they'll be able to process 1000's of daily packages. Probably a few would be charged customs not all of them.