The rare SA-1 cartridge just reached Brazil - but the government decided to tax it this time
Added 2021-06-10 23:48:25 +0000 UTCThe rare SA-1 cartridge which was dumped and made available for everyone and sent to me - for further researchment about the SA-1 chip - just reached Brazil. However, unlike the Super FX cartridge which I just had to pay the shipment fee - R$ 15 - this time they figured out the object is worth USD$ 60 and charged a 60% import tax, which converting to BRL is about R$ 181,79 plus the R$ 15 fee, in total R$ 196,79.
I didn't have the same luck as the GSU cartridge, but the good news is that the amount charged in taxes will not be a big of deal to pay, thanks for the support from every single patron of this page! Once again, thank you all for the large support and letting me preserve this such rare SNES cartridge and specially for the person who made it possible to get this cartridge at the first place. I will make sure to take care of it and figure what else secret this cartridge might have to improve even more my SA-1 ROM hacks and the SNES emulation scene in general.
Now that the package reached Brazil, as soon as they receive the payment (hopefully tomorrow), in about 30 days I will have the cartridge on my hands!
Comments
15 years ago, my dad bought me a Super Mario Kart cartridge which I was been wanting for several months on the local game store. It was R$ 30 at that time. Now, 15 years later, I'm getting taxed by R$ 200 for importing a SA-1 demo cartridge. Crazy how the brazilian real lost value though the years and how cheap were SNES stuff at that time.
Vitor
2021-06-11 05:29:21 +0000 UTCI got arguments that they do that for national protectionism, but there is absolutely no alternatives, nobody will make retrobit-like controllers there for example, on the best case it's some horrible overpriced multilaser controller. It's just unfair and sadderning to get retrogames here (and gaming in general).
Vitor
2021-06-11 01:38:51 +0000 UTCThey're taxing even things under U$50,00 now, which people always said were tax-free. I bought some controllers from Retro-bit and I'll have to pay almost R$500,00 in taxes, and I made the mistake to appeal the taxation and not only all the appeals were denied, they are taking their time to release the packages, they arrived in customs in April, one of them was released in May, another some days ago and the other is still there, they will probably only release it in July
Renato
2021-06-11 01:25:24 +0000 UTC
