Not the ones I purchased that were open by customs. If it had been done by the sellers, I would not have bought it - nor would I have mentioned it.
Everyone has seen the photos of both film and paper exposed to daylight on eBay.
the ebay sellers are doing it..
you can go search for film on ilt right now and youll find a good number of people are opening cans up, and then taking a photo of the contents... and then demanding 350$ for that partial roll of Silvermax
I don't think anyone here has ever had an issue with photographic film being damaged by X-rays in the mail.
I don't think anyone here has ever had an issue with photographic film being damaged by X-rays in the mail. If customs opened and examined a container of film, they are bloody stupid. Though it is also worth asking if the vendor correctly labelled the package and had warning labels that it contained light sensitive materials.
In the UK I've ordered from B&H in New York, and from German and Ukrainian sellers in the past. Never had any issues at all. The arrangements for X-raying parcel post are *very* different to those your suitcase might encounter at an airport.
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I don't think there's a minimum order - I've typically ordered 20-40 rolls of 35mm from them at a time.
If I may ask, how much was the shipping fees?
If I may ask, how much was the shipping fees?
Thanks.I don't know what shipping costs now but the last time I made a purchase of 30 rolls (2 years ago), it cost me $25 USD for shipping.
That depends on how much the order weighs and to where it will be shipped.
In general getting things shipped to the US is a lot cheaper than shipping from the US. Shipping from the US is really expensive.
In Europe you can get stuff from Ukraine without customs fees, but stuff from the US or Asia (other than Japan, which has a free trade agreement) is going to be heavily price dependent on how much your country's legislators have decided that customs on personal goods are a good way to make money and/or waste time.
The lower shipping costs are due to the EU.
What I'm referring to is that actual postal charges (not customs) to ship stuff to the US from e.g. Germany, Ireland, UK (all places I have lived—I'm American but live in Europe) is about 1/2 to 2/3 what it costs from the US the other direction. I'm not referring to charges inside the EU or associated trade partners.
Postal charges from the USA to Europe/UK pretty much tripled about 10 years ago. They used to be pretty reasonable, now it's prohibitive but that does depend on which postal service the American end are using.
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