My CDs were confiscated at Qatar land border

xpatadventure
By xpatadventure

Hello.

We just realized that our lifetime CDs of photos and weddings were missing. It was 2 months ago after our boxes were land freight to Doha from Dubai. We tried to contact the custom authorities, our shipping agents, and ask how to go about to claim it back. So far, we haven't had any luck.

Does anyone has this experience before? Would love to hear from you and your comments.

Thanks

By xpatadventure• 20 Mar 2012 03:24
xpatadventure

Thanks for the comments. I am hoping that someone can give me some advice how and where to claim this item back. This is the first time we ever ship through land freight. We always used air cargo in the past and our CDs went through just fine. They questioned us, but never confiscate. The guy who we dealt with never informed us verbally nor in in writing about restrictions. The drivers didn't care whether our things were confiscated. Anyway, it's not that important to blame anyone. I just want to get my CDs back.

Most of our boxes were torn apart. We lost all of our medicines even children vitamins and other things. However, we didn't mind as these can be replaced. Our lifetime photos cannot unfortunately.

By anonymous• 19 Mar 2012 14:08
anonymous

They like to watch them first, so if you had a lot it will take a while for them to give them back.

By anonymous• 19 Mar 2012 11:23
anonymous

Any cds / video is prohibited to be taken by cargo, if you do, you risk its confiscation. This shud have been mentioned in the t & c of the cargo.

By anonymous• 19 Mar 2012 08:15
anonymous

How well was the packaging of the boxes? For me, I had my cargo sent from Saudi to Doha through Air Freight. I had there CD's for my work and some other personal CD's as well, but it was not taken.

Though they've opened one box, but nothing was taken.

However, a lot of hassle in picking up the box. So much complications and cost....

By deedee• 19 Mar 2012 08:12
Rating: 3/5
deedee

but they simply were returned after 2 weeks. If I was you and lost such priceless possessions, I would go out to the industrial area and hunt for that shipping company and then plant myself in their office and raise a huge complaint. You may even consider threatening them with a lawsuit until they tracked the missing items down for you.

By GodFather.• 19 Mar 2012 07:58
GodFather.

That is SAD...

By Bachus• 19 Mar 2012 05:49
Bachus

That's terrible. How do you know that they were confiscated?

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