Declare the correct value on the Customs form?

yes, but the tariffs on avocado will keep murderers, rapists and fentanyl out of the country

@riie I used to. Still traveling there once or twice a year

let me add a different perspective, with a European brain (Eastern European, even worse)

We deal with taxes and customs and fees every day. It's a nightmare. A price tag of X really means 3X at the end. It's pretty normal to be "lean" every possible way and use standard low numbers when declaring value. It can totally NOT be a red flag, just routinely avoiding getting screwed. Many times, customs doesn't care if it's an item returned back to its origins. They are trained to screw you. They have quotas. I could write a book about my stories sitting in their offices with my beaten up laptop as they claimed I was trying to sneak it into the country and sell it. 

On the other hand, $1200 for a record, not as described IS a red flag. 

I wouldn't judge anyone paying $1200 for an album. It can be a time capsule, with an emotional value one can't not have. For me, a $1200 cable would make less sense...

@mclinnguy hah! That's wild! (I don’t understand the replacement cost $2000 math)

I once paid the price of 2 new monitors (in customs, taxes and fees) for bringing one used monitor into Hungary. I could have left it with the customs but, it was too much good money after bad by then, and I had to have it.

@mclinnguy I used to have a puli. Of course they are popular at some point in time  and then they are not, goes in waves. It's hard to keep 100s of sheep around to keep them happy in a city apartment. 

Ooooooh

apparently talking about stable genius’ "brilliant" policies is already hurting people’s feelings. When tariffs are very much on topic.

I couldn’t count if I had 1000s of fingers the Bidenomics whining and bashing that I read here and never blinked just kept scrolling.