Hello all. This is a BIG WARNING ! Tea money is a nice way of saying BRIB ! Here's our story... We had a container shipped the USA from Las Vegas Nv. To Chiang Mai. ( $4,600 ) The first thing that went wrong was the ship yard sent a 40ft instead of a 20ft container. I called our shipper as soon as it was delivered to our house in Vegas, and he said Don't worry you will not be charged more money for the larger container, they must have run out of 20s... The movers packed it and it was sent off to The port of Los Angeles. 2 days later we boarded our flight to Thailand. After arriving one day late (different story lol) we got a email from our shipper that The container was going to be inspected by Port Attortieys . We then received a email saying The Worst thing that could happen did , they found something and there going to inspect the whole shipment, box by box... Yep you guessed it We have to pay for it ($1,600 ) ..I asked the shipper what did they find that set off the bells and whistles???? He said Nothing at all...🙄 Thanks to that, the container missed the ship sailing and had to wait another 2 1/2 weeks... 30 days later it finally arrived in the port of Bangkok Yippee ! So about a week or so we got an email from the shipper here in Thailand saying since we have a 40 ft we are going to have to pay more for it , even the shipper from the states all ready informed them here of the mix up and said no additional charges will be needed. OK here's where it get fun 🙄 The shipper here said in a email that the customs need between 70,000-75,000baht ( ruffly $2,300 ) to release our used goods from the port OR we can pay Tea Money to the shipper...of 32,000baht (($950).. Real nice..So from a shipment costing $4,600 it's Now over $10,000us .. These people at the ship yard are dishonest , thieves that need to be arrested.. As soon as they see who you are and what country you are from ( because they require you to send your passport for customs release ) they think you have money to burn and paying less then what you wold have to pay customs is a bargain.. We found out these people at the shipping co. Are not even Thai, there from Pakistan or India..nice. My the flies of a 1,000 camels infest there armpits!!!! Lol We are supposed to get our container Mon. Feb 20. We will see... Once we get our things , I will post the Names of all the shipping Companies and names of some who are involved so you Don't get ripped off like we did. Ted