over declared value

Hello guys, I recently bought items from abroad with value 101 Euros (or 135 dollars) including the shipping. Today it arrived with additional 60 dollars in duties and taxes. I am okay with paying these duties and taxes. However, the seller declared the package's value as 257 dollar, that's more than double the original price and shipping cost. These results to unreasonably high duties and taxes. Any advice? Help please. Thanks.|||next time exsplain to the next seller that the value is the amount you paid for the item , excluding shipping. almost 25% tax is very high, you might be able to get that reduced by asking at the tax place|||You may want to email/discuss this with your seller from France|||Take your Ebay invoice to your customs office. They do re-evaluate the duties sometimes.|||as was suggested, ask that the tax be reduced to the correct amount. ultimately though, it is the seller's responsibility for his negligence. you can ask for the difference to be refunded.|||With the eBay invoice you can have the duty re-evaluated. You may even be able to do it by phone/fax/ email. The phone number should be on the back of the customs form. One caveat: here in Canada, while Customs is very good about this, they cannot reevaluate sales taxes and customs brokerage fees. The former are other government departments and the latter is a special little ripoff devised by private couriers.