by Orichá » Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:09 pm
YaTingPom wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:03 am
"I wonder if you could beat this extortion by going to Thailand and riding the bike back across the border with a fake receipt from the dealer in Thailand undervaluing the moto?"
Doubtful, because the customs guys are not stupid and they know the prices.
Once they start making them here the prices will tumble...just like the Ford Ranger...not.
Or just buy a new (superior) Suzuki for $1300 less.
Well, this model is one of a style Suzuki does not make. Originally, it was only available in Japan and made in Japan. Production has recently expanded, as of 2020, to Thailand, and it is a high quality thing...
I would think one could simply write up the receipt as a second hand item and bring it over that way. Just stick on some old Thai plates, or just my Cambo plates with the paperwork tricked up from the dealer... My main question is what would happen crossing the border?
With authentic sales receipts, used or new, from a seller in Thailand, I imagine I could just persuade the border people to let me stick on my old bike's plates on in order to get the bike back to Phnom Penh to pay the duties and license it...
I suppose nobody has ever tried to do this with a "new" bike...
Anyway, I am just annoyed that the duties are so onerous and clearly do nothing to support society in Cambodia, but merely go to pay for the "free" expensive cars and trucks that the regime gives to its spoiled do-nothing generals, cops and soldier cronies every year, lol...
[quote=YaTingPom post_id=1050173 time=1660532638 user_id=38577]
"I wonder if you could beat this extortion by going to Thailand and riding the bike back across the border with a fake receipt from the dealer in Thailand undervaluing the moto?"
Doubtful, because the customs guys are not stupid and they know the prices.
Once they start making them here the prices will tumble...just like the Ford Ranger...not.
Or just buy a new (superior) Suzuki for $1300 less.
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Well, this model is one of a style Suzuki does not make. Originally, it was only available in Japan and made in Japan. Production has recently expanded, as of 2020, to Thailand, and it is a high quality thing...
I would think one could simply write up the receipt as a second hand item and bring it over that way. Just stick on some old Thai plates, or just my Cambo plates with the paperwork tricked up from the dealer... My main question is what would happen crossing the border?
With authentic sales receipts, used or new, from a seller in Thailand, I imagine I could just persuade the border people to let me stick on my old bike's plates on in order to get the bike back to Phnom Penh to pay the duties and license it...
I suppose nobody has ever tried to do this with a "new" bike...
Anyway, I am just annoyed that the duties are so onerous and clearly do nothing to support society in Cambodia, but merely go to pay for the "free" expensive cars and trucks that the regime gives to its spoiled do-nothing generals, cops and soldier cronies every year, lol...