“If she was really trying to smuggle merchandise in don’t you think she would have gotten rid of all of the paper receipts?”
She wasn’t trying to smuggle it in. Just trying to under report it’s value. After spending 19K on the stuff, she was balking at paying the duty? C’mon, give me a break. The elite mentality on display.
I was coming home from a business trip to France and the US custom guy took some receipts out of my wallet from purchases I had made in Houston Tx not Paris France and he was ready to lock me up over them. I made him get his supervisor and I showed him the dates and address of the stores where I purchased them. I think those people make points for catching people, I am never on their side. Call me a smuggler if you want to.