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Jim-Minh wrote:

I found some really good information for you. A fellow expat from the UK put together a list of some very useful information that you may need to study.
It includes information about health insurance and tips about things you need to pay attention to when moving to SE Asia. (in his case Thailand).
He included information about shipping personal belongings from the UK and the costs he endured in doing so. He contracted with a shipper in the UK to ship half a container to Thailand for 1,200 Pounds sterling. The agency he used is noted in the video.
I have no idea if his experience translates to what can be expected in Vietnam, but I find that encouraging.

Shipping personal items into Viet Nam is a nightmare and very costly unfortunately.

Half a container? The boat charge maybe the lowest part. Add the cost of packing, make sure you don't exceed sizes and weights. Add the cost of trucking delivery to the port. In Vietnam, add the weird charges for paperwork at the receiving port. Maybe multiple trips. There may be storage charges before paperwork is right. Add customs charges which can be surprising. (Find a list of things to avoid like vehicles, electronics, computer games, quantities that look like items for sale, and I don't know what else).  Add trucking delivery from the customs house to your house.

This is the gentleman that moved the half container to Thailand from the UK. Watch it. I didn't have any reason to doubt him. Perhaps you do and that is what you are saying.

Jim-Minh wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmmajVQwUuA

This is the gentleman that moved the half container to Thailand from the UK. Watch it. I didn't have any reason to doubt him. Perhaps you do and that is what you are saying.

I looked into moving my personal items about 4 years ago. It was a nightmare, the paperwork was bad enough, but the taxes and bribes they wanted made it all too much trouble. Im sure shipping items into Thailand is much easier than Viet Nam.

I think what he is saying is Vietnam is a different animal than Thailand.

colinoscapee wrote:

Jim-Minh wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmmajVQwUuA

This is the gentleman that moved the half container to Thailand from the UK. Watch it. I didn't have any reason to doubt him. Perhaps you do and that is what you are saying.

I looked into moving my personal items about 4 years ago. It was a nightmare, the paperwork was bad enough, but the taxes and bribes they wanted made it all too much trouble. Im sure shipping items into Thailand is much easier than Viet Nam.

I gave up on shipping my things to Vietnam, wound up donating most of them for a tax writeoff and shipping the rest to my brother in USA - cost to ship to him was $1200 from Hawaii, cost to ship to Vietnam was $4000, thats before the cost of importing paperwork, taxes etc etc etc . -  they wouldn't ship door to door, only port to port.............I could replace everything for a lot less than that......as for Thailand??  Notoriously corrupt and iof you aren't married to a Thai,  prohibitively expensive.........I have a place in Jomtien near Pattaya as well, and gave up sending my stuff there.............I have heard good luck and bad luck stories  in Thailand.  One guy I know shipped an enbtire Wood Working shop from Australia to Thailand, his import tax was about US $150. for over $40,000 worth of equipment, saving grace was the Customs man was sick and couldn;t be botheredd looking into all the crates.........he thought the man told him it was only worth 40,000 Baht, about USD $1200..........good day for him, another guy made the mistake of shipping enough spare parts to build 4 Triumph Motorcycles. from USA.............they wanted USD $5000. so just depends on who is sitting at the desk that day.      Just saying.