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Do you believe I won an iPod Touch, again? You better believe it! I won an iPod Touch 16GB 1st generation last year. And I have won iPod Touch 8GB 2nd generation again this time!

I didn’t buy any gift for myself during my anniversary trip. Fortunately, LiveSpeakR is so generous enough to choose me as the big prize winner of their contest. I got myself a big prize again this year! Looks unbelievable huh?

Big Prizes: iPod Touch and LiveSpeakR

One of the biggest lacking in iPod touch 1st generation was No Speaker! I’m so happy to wait for this “speaker enable” iPod touch 2nd generation deliver to me. 8GB is not that big but enough for my songs and videos.

On top of that, I also won an ultra portable speaker system from LiveSpeakR. This fold-able speaker design specifically for iPhone and iPod touch. I choose black color to match my new iPod touch. Its latest new model comes with cradle stand, selling from $100 to $130 in the market. Is not cheap huh? Can’t wait to try out the mini hi-fi speaker quality! (more…)

LiveSpeakr is organizing an exciting and easy to enter contest too. They produce unique ultra-portable speaker system for iPod touch and iPhone.

If you vote LiveSpeakr to Win the WIRED Small Biz Contest, you could stay a chance to Win a Brand New iPod Touch 8GB (2nd Generation) + LiveSpeakR. Wow, better than my 1st Generation iPod touch. An extra bonus prize is Incase leather iPhone Case for another random voter.

How to enter? Follow few steps to win these cool gadgets:

1. Click here and Vote for LiveSpeakR & Erik Groset. By clicking the orange number next to us. It should go up in value so you know you voted!
2. Go to the contest page, Put the number of your vote in comment. (for example: Vote #3121)

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Finally, after 3 weeks of hard waiting time since I won an Apple Ipod Touch, my Free Ipod Touch 16GB is on my hand! This is really a big present for me since I blog for 3 months here. But I would say, to receive a Ipod Touch is my bad and good experience.

Bad and Good experience

Actually I’ve received the shipment letter from POS KLIA since last week. The letter mentioned my Ipod Touch has been blocked at custom KLIA and need to assign someone to do the clearance, such as POS Malaysia with reasonable service fees of RM49.50. But do you know that our custom annouced Ipod as taxable item up to 35% of the device.

After my reply to POS Malaysia, they get back to me that I need to pay off RM540+ tax plus some hand carry fees to do the clearance from custom! Wow, that is ridiculous. How can I pay off RM540+ for a free prize? I negotiate with the incharge person and let her know my situation, because the tax price is not reasonable at all! I told her this is a my free prize, but seems like she not believe with my answer. Finally, she told me I need an invoice from the sender to prove that I got it free.

With help from MixedDrinkWorld, I manage to get an customized invoice and let my Ipod Touch get through custom. I really appreciate their help and fast respond After all, I went to redeem my free Ipod Touch at POS Malaysia nearest to my town. The young officer was so excited when I redeem my Ipod Touch. When I told him I got my Ipod Touch free, seems like he was curious and unbelievable on my answer.

My two cents

This is my first experience to receive my personal gadget directly from oversea. I was so happy when receive my first Apple’s high end gadget.

Throughout this experience, I learned the process of oversea shipment, the procedures to do custom clearance and redeem. It was value added knowledge in my life.

I also learned that Do Not direct order taxable gadgets from oversea unless you are rich! It was total up of USD$100 plus RM49.50 to ship an USD$399 Ipod Touch 16GB from US to me.