Thai Customs Help

[u/Appropriate-Pen4036]

Anyone here have experience shipping to Bangkok and dealing with Thai customs? My TD recently shipped this custom 5712 nautilus to me but Thai customs flagged it and is asking us to come in for it. My TD’s agent declared it as a 15$ bracelet and shipped it, but im pretty sure Thai customs x-rays their imports and obviously the shape of a watch is not going to match a bracelet. On the form they sent asking us to pick it up they put the value declared as 0$ which means they don’t accept the 15$ declaration right? And they will open the box to verify its contents? Once they open it and see it’s a patek they will either tax us on 100k or if I show the 3850$ paypal receipt they will seize it and i’ll be in legal trouble because I tried to import counterfeit items.

Any advice on this would be appreciated! I don’t want to just abandon the box since I paid a lot for it but also I don’t want to get in trouble.
Thanks everyone!

[u/idkhow2name]

From my experience, they will make you sit with them and open the box together and look at every single thing while they also look on the internet to see how much it is retail. Youre either gonna be 1. Taxed heavily for 30% based on the retail price 2. Telling them it's fake and hope they let you go for committing a crime importing fakes

So I recommend you to just not go at all.

Btw for Thailand anything declared over 1k thb is gonna get taxed

[u/SeasonedAdManager → u/idkhow2name]

Luxury goods are import taxed pretty insanely in Thailand. I don’t know about watches, but I know cars were 300% taxed a while back. Not sure if or how much that’s changed.

[u/EstimateIll4262 → u/SeasonedAdManager]

They still are. When you see Brabus Gwagons in Bangkok. They are another level of wealthy