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?

  • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
      1·
      10 months ago

      I got my Pixel second hand off Trade me, less than a year old and an awful lot cheaper than a new one!

      • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Our customs are all asswipes, even if you buy a second hand phone. They’ll impose import duties as a new phone.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
          2·
          10 months ago

          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.

          • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            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.