[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] saxtreamer:
Import fees

Thanks for that explanation it confirms my suspicions and explains why you didn't pay anything but every body else form EU will.

Those are 2 "completely" :) different phones sold on 2 completely different links and from different warehouses. I was referring to the original link (can't post link but it's the one from the first post) the one that this whole thread was started for. That phone is 64GB/4GB 829 (gray and gold) global version that only ships from HK2 warehouse and doesn't have the option to ship via priority line hence all EU destinations (UK excluded) will pay the tax and import fees (customs fees) making the phone much more expensive and less appealing to EU shoppers (viva america XD)

The other one (probably the one you bought back in !!January!! can't post link but it's the one from the above post) is a 32GB/4GB 820 (rose gold - yuck) Chinese version ships from both China and UK2 warehouse and has the option to ship via priority line from China for certain (not all) EU countries and you don't pay any tax or import fees for either of them altho you do pay shipping if you order from UK. But that model has only half the storage and it doesn't come with earphones and is Chinese not global version of the phone and it costs more at the time of writing.

The reason i am pointing it out is so that EU people that came here for the sale link and expect a phone for 174€ like you point it out in the one of your earlier comments without any importing fees and tax won't get pissed when the mail man shows up with the rest of the bill.

I did however when i was chatting with a lovely "girl" (funny how it's always a girl) called Jolie from GearBest found out that i could have had the phone for only 141€. When i ordered the phone and got to the payment page i was pleasantly greeted with a total of 145€ (inc. expedited shipping) since it seem weird and would mean that i could actually get the phone for cca. 190€ with all the fees payed like you said. And after i explained the situation to Jolie and she checked it on their side and provided me with a print screen (prnt dot sc slash enzq88) of my order on their system that did indeed confirm the total of 145€ which i would pay to them for the phone and expedited shipping (3-7 days) via DHL. Now you gotta love that US to EU conversion rate from 2007 :) They would however put the invoice with the total of 196$ (not 145€) in the box with the phone so customs would go off of that (181€ with current conversion rate) bringing the total cost of the phone to my doorstep for 200€ which we can still say it's cheap, just not 174€ cheap :)

Now i did repeat the order both via paypal and worldpay and got the same ridiculous conversion rate from back in the day so the glitch is on their system and as far as my knowledge goes it's still available as of 2 hours ago making this phone a steal at 141€ (no added fees).

I did however end up buying a gold 820 chinese version (gold) 128GB/6GB from a guy in my country new that just had the finger print reader busted for a measly 220€. I wouldn't have used it anyways since you must be mad to give your fingerprint to a Chinese device running Google's latest and greatest surveillance OS ;P

Have an awesome one!:cool: