No import duties? Lucky you. Here, I can't even buy a Pixel phone without paying expensive import duties (duty-free limit of 50 dollars). Not to mention I have to register IMEI on the govt website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No, we normally have to pay duties too (and yes Pixel phones are quite expensive here because of it), but Minisforum managed to bypass it somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got my Pixel second hand off Trade me, less than a year old and an awful lot cheaper than a new one!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Our customs are all asswipes, even if you buy a second hand phone. They'll impose import duties as a new phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're not able to buy second hand locally? I know Pixels aren't sold too widely so I wouldn't be surprised if you can't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's worthless, the importers bribes our customs. So the registered IMEI can be removed from database at anytime and the phone becomes no signal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh that sucks 🙁