Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
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.
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.
I got my Pixel second hand off Trade me, less than a year old and an awful lot cheaper than a new one!
Our customs are all asswipes, even if you buy a second hand phone. They’ll impose import duties as a new phone.
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.
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.
Oh that sucks 🙁