Amazon has just cancelled The Giza Death Star Revisited book

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We purchased our copy of “Giza… Revisted” from Adventures Unlimited. But we purchased 5 other books along with it, and were charged $60 in Canadian Customs/Taxes Fees.

We have special ordered many of Dr. Farrell’s books from a small family-owned local bookstore. When they “can’t” get a book, then we get them from Adventures Unlimited and Lulu.

It appears that Adventures Unlimited does have a supplier in England (“Urban Myths”). Perhaps they can special order… Bookstore Locations | Adventures Unlimited Press Bookstore: Books on Conspiracy, UFO's, Holy Grail, Templar Studies, Mayans, Olmecs

Hopefully Amazon refunded your money when they cancelled your order?

We have never and will not purchase anything from Amazon, no matter how “convenient” they make it.

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@sunnyboy
I avoid Amazon as much as possible. The UK is not in the Eurozone, so same import taxes levied that can be leviated buying thru ebay if they are on it. Could not find Adventures Unlimited on ebay.

LuLu is easyest but sadly Dr. Farrell does not use it for his latest books.

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Actually I DO use Lulu, but I thought it was only fair that Adventures Unlimited and David Childress should be able to do the Revisited book and Demon in the Ekur because he was the one that took the chance on the original three books.

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@neru Just curious: How much is the import tax on a book sent to Belgium from outside the EU?

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No problem, your prerogative in choosing publisher. Will have to wait and see if and when available somewhere. Usually, that is Amazon when in stock.

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Import tax rate for Belgium is listed at 21%, EU countries range from 17-25% on imports from outside the eurozone but a $100 fee for $20 book is probably from some other fees in addition to that. Otherwise that would be a 500% tax rate, steep.

Anything less than 150€ is exempt from customs duties, so this could be a customs clearance fee that adventures unlimited press is being charged at about $95, but looks like that isn’t supposed to cost that much so must be some other fee don’t know what.

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Some commercial websites may offer to show a value on the customs declaration that is much lower than the actual price paid so that you don’t have to pay duty and/or pay lower VAT. This may also result in seizure of the goods and/or additional costs and possible a fine at delivery.

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@Bahri
Last time I ordered which was a few years ago, besides paying post and packaging I also got a steep bill from the post office itself. They would not deliver until paid. All added up it came to 120€ book included. Sadly, I did not keep the bill and can’t prove anything.

If I can’t find the book I will wait and order directly for the two books simultaniously. But after that ordeal I try avoiding buying anything from outside the EU except when it is thru ebay.

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Post office fees, could be there were additional fees if the retailer you bought book from hadn’t paid all the correct taxes and fees so that cost may have been technically a fine not a fee, probably just because of an accident by retailer with all of the changes to shipping regulations during covid or something. Hopefully you won’t have to pay that much for more books. Maybe non post office shipping would be better.

If you have friends in England and can afford to travel there maybe better to travel with book after purchase, probably customs agent at train station wouldn’t give you trouble over a book.

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Joseph, my own husband’s books were pirated several times, especially in the early days of the web, so I understand the problem. But have you considered allowing PDF versions of these books say six months or a year after they are first published? Even if David was willing to do it with a code for Giza Members only or something?

I got some of your older books that David has republished this way, I am guessing, with your permission. The delay would mean overseas members couldn’t read them immediately, but they could get a PDF version eventually. Waiting lowers the chances of immediate piracy, though nothing is perfect.

Your call either way. It was just something I thought of.

Melodi (whose next book written with her husband has been delayed for weeks now and won’t be out before July thanks to Amazon’s antics, and it also is with a small publisher, not Amazon).

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Audio books can be good to, I can narrate them.

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By the way looks like this book is still on at least the U.S. Amazon, this may be just the Belgian or E.U. amazon that isn’t shipping this currently?

I can order the book to be shipped to Belgium but estimated delivery isn’t until the end of the month, June 28th-29th.

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#1 best selling new-release book in physics of acoustics and sound, congratulations!!

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@Bahri
Thank you but I will try more local. It was the German one that cancelled. I saw it on a Dutch site for maybe 8/25/2023.

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@Bahri Yes, one random shipping website I checked had a customs and VAT calculator that told me a $20 book sent from the U.S. to Belgium would incur a VAT charge of $4 and $0 in customs duties. But I didn’t know if that information was accurate, or what other fees the Belgian post office might charge. If I were in the EU and had paid 120€ to get a book delivered, I’d be very hesitant to order from outside the EU myself…

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Yeah too bad @neru doesn’t have receipt for that sounded like was local post office charged that for some reason, don’t know anything about the Belgian post office.

Ordering from amazon there may be a choice on post office or courier distribution, maybe dhl has service in Belgium? In cities I know amazon is using their own vehicles for that now but in rural zones it’s usually fedex or ups in the u.s.

Maybe @David8pies can get the books in England and then distribute them to the E.U.?

Sorry for volunteering you for that David if you’re not interested in starting a career as a freight forwarding agent for a post Brexit failing kingdom.

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Anyway so my understanding is the book isn’t really cancelled on amazon, but order that was supposed to be delivered this week was canceled, that is annoying. They didn’t even offer to reschedule delivery for next month, just said they didn’t feel like delivering this book in particular for some reason??

#36

This is impressive that you have never and will never buy anything from Amazon, seems like that is not too good of a company.

I don’t know if boycotting them will make any positive change in the world unless a significant enough number of people do that, have heard some of the worker strikes were successful in improving wages a little so I guess that’s something.

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Interesting, with reference to the “Ekur”( Acre?? ) , that the 3rd planned atomic bomb that was planned to be dropped on Japan in WWII was to contain a plutonium sphere, known as The Demon Core[ Ekur/Acre ]. Its original name was “Rufus” —— in ancient Egyptian, to mean: Ru-Phra-Sa, or The Etheric/Spirit Manifestation of The Eye of The Serpent( snake) ! Perhaps someone here knows the transliteration of “rufus” from Sanskriț?

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Also, interestingly, ancient egyptian records list a catastrophe/disaster that caused the sands of the nearby Sahara to be dangerous( radioactive? Enough to cause mutations?) to the degree that those lands became known as “The Red Devil”, or Demon…

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