Fortunately I never had any problem - not products from roadtest, but prizes or products for Challenges. E14 uses UPS to Portugal and they take care of everything ! Never had to pay for nothing !
I have never had any issues with import duties for any roadtest items. The element14 team does an absolutely fantastic job of handling those themselves. Some months ago I had the privilege to roadtest a ~2k$ kit and all I had to do was go down to the gate and collect the package. My experience with roadtests started in 2021 so I can't comment on anything before that, although I am certain they would have handled it if they had been made aware of it.
I wanted to respond to the questions revolving around tax responsibility of roadtest products. This past week, we enquired again with our Director of Finance about this issue. The answer is based upon how roadtests are defined in our Terms and Conditions.
A roadtest was set up as a contest. The applicants who are selected to receive the roadtest products are called "winners." The products themselves are called "prizes." Since it is a prize, the U.S 1099 rule applies. If you are a U.S. roadtest participant, the 1099 rule says for prizes that are valued at $660, you will be required to complete an W-9 form and the company will issue you a 1099 form, as income, at the end of the year.
If you are not a U.S. participant, it would be up to the individual recipient to determine what the rules are for their country of residence. Newark US cannot dictate or recommend what their tax requirements would be for their respective countries."
I hope this clears things up. Sorry for any confusion it created.
No one should ever give a delivery driver money for delivery fees or import duties. We pay those. If it comes up, tell us. And we will track it down and see what is going on. We do this a on regular basis.
I entered the R&S MXO4 Road-test but some of these text boxes did not show up or where labelled differently. I hope I am not penalized if I entered incomplete data or I missed something. If I am missing something I would be more than happy to fix it or fill in the missing information.
Also the link that explains the form I'm guessing links to "Writing Your Entry Form" but I'm unsure as the link did not work. Hopefully that would be fixed for future users.
I see the entry data has been extended but I cant access my entry to try fix any of the text boxes I may have missed or filled in incorrectly I'm getting an error when trying to do so...
An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #102.84f354b8.1670784924.2176df70
This seems to be happening more and more that pages are ether very slow to load or don't load at all. Help would be appreciated.
I am getting the same error when I click the "View Entry" button. I have tried it on 3 different machines, using 2 different browers, so I think it should not be an issue on my side.
Hopefully someone from the element14 team can have a look at this. cstanton
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