How Cheap Can You Be?

As a favor for a friend I sell his Brake Lite Blinker to out of the coun­try buy­ers. He doesn’t want to make a trip to the Post Office and fill out the cus­toms forms, etc.

Tonight he for­warded me a request from some one in Canada. He had a few ques­tions about size and power, etc. His last ques­tion was would I list the value of the item as $10 so he wouldn’t have to pay as much cus­toms duty on them. Come on, the things are $15 to begin with. How much can he be sav­ing on duty? I wrote him back:

I’m sure there is a very minis­cule chance of any­thing bad hap­pen­ing to me if I did that, but for all I know you actu­ally work for the U.S. Cus­toms and are trolling the inter­net look­ing for vio­la­tors of fed­eral law, so, no I won’t do that. They are val­ued at $15 US each. Sorry.

We’ll see if he still wants them after that…