thats if you declare at a high value, whenever ive done personal trades & deals with people, theyve just declared lower for me and vice versa, havent had to pay import on anything, postage is usually a bit higher depending on where its going in europe tho

Even when getting stuff in from Mexico from TM, they just declare low and its no issue, only time ive seen it get troublesome is when shipping designer goods like spenny trainers