• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If you, as a consumer, directly paid one of the illegal tariffs, you can get a refund via the shipper who acted as an agent for you.

    For example, here’s the form if you shipped something over the border using UPS and paid an illegal tariff to get it released from customs.

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      13 hours ago

      Yes, technically the truth. In practice the vast vast majority of consumers bought from a business that imported the item. So it’s good to highlight people have options, but the broad point of the post stands, that the businesses have the option of pocketing the difference and most of them seem to be taking that option.

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      23 hours ago

      Does this mean UPS is going to stop sending me demand letters for extra money on a thing I already bought, paid for and received?

      I keep wondering if they’ll escalate, but I’m refusing on principle.

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        22 hours ago

        If you already received your item(s) and you don’t immediately need to do any more business with them, it sounds like they don’t have a lot of leverage to get you to pay.

        Sounds like that might have been a screw up on their part.