TL;DR My country’s customs officers seem to have misappropriated 7 buttplugs, 8 Venus ball sets, 3 non-USB penis devices and 7 sets of BDSM straps.
We had a large shipment of illegal sex toys seized in the Czech Republic, and the customs office held an auction with publicly disclosed contents of the package. There were several suspicious amounts. I have a copy of the list:
Not auctioned individually, only as a complete set. 1 CZK ≈ 0.04 USD. Yes, we have words for sex toy but they specifically chose more formal wording.
Item Description of the auctioned item Qty Unit price CZK total 1 Erotic aid - anal jewel, 3 pcs/set 594 300 ($13) 178 200,00 ($7722) 2 Erotic aid case 300 210 ($9) 63 000,00 ($2700) 3 Erotic aid (penis) 40 600 ($25) 24 000,00 ($1000) 4 Electric pump 40 90 ($4) 3 600,00 ($160) 5 Sex aid - straps 193 300 ($13) 57 900,00 ($2509) 6 Erotic aid - anal jewel with tail 99 210 ($9) 20 790,00 ($891) 7 Erotic aid for penis without USB 77 300 ($13) 23 100,00 ($1001) 8 Venus balls 112 300 ($13) 33 600,00 ($1456) 9 Enema 210 120 ($5) 25 200,00 ($1050) 10 Enema with black pouch 30 150 ($7) 4 500,00 ($210) Total price (CZK) 433 890,00 ($18,315) Auction start at (CZK) 144 630,00 ($6105) The goods have been legalized for resale in the EU even though some lack CE certification.
Auction notice including photos (Czech, PDF, 9,74 MiB) / Deep-L’s English translation of the document (view in browser) - gets interesting on page 5, or just click the hyperlinked items for extracted images (only 6 seems to have been published)
Above is translation of a Reddit comment I had made here but since overwritten with a power-delete tool.
I am kinda curious what about these were illegal. Like, are they particularly shoddy home-made stuff? Just some boring lack of import permits? Does Czechia have strict laws around sex toys?
Nah, likely just incorrectly declared and the importer failed to respond to a tax evasion fine. The Czech Republic is pretty lax when it comes to regulating such things (heck, even this was allowed). They could be legalized without a CE certificate, just some paper work.
You can use the “save” function to come later
Yeah you can
“erotic aid for penis without usb”
This implies the existence of…
Wild to get a shipment in such an odd quantity, I mean 293 kilos you might as well round up.
Yea it would be really wierd for there to be exactly 287 kilos
I don’t know what you mean, 250 kg is a nice, round number