Speaking of Customs Forms

Putting nothing on a customs form is a red flag. Everyone buys something. Better to put down a token amount, $200, than nothing at all.

That happened to me once. I bought a magnet and maybe a picture card and didn't put it down and was asked if I really didn't buy anything. I told the agent the two small items and that was that. I always list the small items now under souvenirs and that seems to take care of that lil' issue just fine. I would never try taking anything that must be declared through without declaring it. Those customs agents scare the crap out of me. I never want to cross any of them.

Oops.... Polo shirt. That teaches me to type when sleepy.... got to love auto correct.

Depending on what karat gold your shirt was, you may have needed to declare it

Maybe we should rephrase the question to: Has your "friend" ever not declared something they should have

Just got back from a cruise out of Miami, no custom forums unless you had over $ 800.00 to declare. Just showed passport and I was good. All I bought were some T-shorts and a gold shirt.

For the question....... I take the 5th, this is public

I remember a couple of cruises ago, we handed the card to the agent. He glanced at us and started with the "friendly" questions -- what was your favorite port, where do you work, etc (designed to get you talking freely). He then asked, "Didn't you buy any jewelry?"

I answered, "Yes, it is declared on the form".

He turned red and waived us through

We had one cruise where we declared nothing. The custom agent asked if we really didn't buy even a t-shirt. We explained that this was our 20th (somewhere in that area) cruise and all we bought were drinks the boarding photo. We had all the t-shirts we needed. He grinned and waved us on. It was the truth. If we have ever missed something it was not intentional.

Let me clarify that my transgression was unintentional -- I did verbally declare the item (which was how I got caught).

I think the Customs agent was missing his morning cup of coffee

Absolutely not! (This is a public forum, after all.)