Thinking of importing some clothing from the good old US of A.. Was just going to go and do it then started adding things up, doing it from the website its going to cost me $480nz including shipping.
Ive got a concern about customs and there pesky gst fees.. What is the maximum value in NZD before they start charging gst? Ive read that its $400 (incl shipping etc) but for some reason i thought it was lower??

How often do items get stopped at customs, and then charged gst?

So then i thought about using the shipito service.. hypothetically (of course) if one was to declare a slightly lower value say so it totaled $350nzd, would it get stopped? And if it did its clothes, and only 5 items so they should really have no idea what their true value would be as i believe shipito will dispose of the original invoice if asked. Then there is the other option too of writing gift on the declaration, but dodged out by this one..