Sending PS3's abroad

[dreg]

A friend has asked em to send him a couple of unopened PS3s to France.
Are there any issues I should be aware of regarding customs?

I was going to bring them to the post office and send them by EMS and mark them is being gifts. Many thanks in advance

[amdg]

As far as customs goes, you don't have to worry, they will attach any customs duty that is payable at his end when he picks them up, I think. From experience, it doesn't make any difference if it's marked as 'gift' or not.

[Kuang_Grade]

You might want to also include a PS2 memory card adaptor for the PS3 because it is likely that those are not going to be available in Europe for another few months (it took about four weeks after the US PS3 launch before you could find them on the shelf in the US)

You might also want to price out shipping them together vs. shipping them separately...The PS3 is very heavy and shipping 3 together will make for an extremely heavy box, which is likely to be treated much rougher during shipment than a lighter box..also French customs might be more interested in looking at box weighing 30 kilos vs one that weighs 10. Also I think that EMS may be capped at 30 kilos...or at least that is as high as the rate chart goes on japanpost website
http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/fee/intel/ems.html

And your friend should know that it will play region 2 DVDs but it won't play blueray movies coded for Europe, only Japan/Asia/US blueray movies.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-bo-49-en-70-p62.html

[dreg]

Thanks chaps. For the customs I jsut want to make sure that on my end I am doing what is needed.

Actually it does work out cheaper sending them together, its basically gonna be 24000 Yen to send a package with 2 ps3's and four games using 6 day ems

I'll check with him on the card adaptors