Ram723
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Post by Ram723 on Aug 21, 2013 16:37:24 GMT
Someone mentioned a confiscation risk with bringing 110 stuff. Are most people able to successfully bring over appliances more suitable for 110V?
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Post by GroveWanderer on Aug 22, 2013 5:38:41 GMT
I think people are extrapolating from the fact that commercial enterprises are no longer supposed to import 110V appliances for sale in the kingdom, to the risk of personal belongings which are 110V, being confiscated.
While that is always a possibility, I have not heard of anyone having electrical appliances confiscated, either from shipments or when being brought in in your checked baggage (and I don't recall anyone on this forum having any information to that effect, either). Up to now in my personal experience, even since the import ban officially came into effect, customs officials show absolutely zero interest in any electrical appliance that you might have when you enter the kingdom.
YMMV
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Post by Hadia on Aug 22, 2013 6:03:10 GMT
Actually, for a brief window of time a few months back, some of the new hires reported to this forum that their relocation info said not to pack 110v appliances or they would be confiscated. There was a lot of talk and concern about this, but something seemed to have been ironed out between Aramco and Customs subsequently, and the issue hasn't come up recently. Did you receive instruction on this one way or the other ? Here's a link to that earlier discussion: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=122473It would be helpful if some very recent arrivals who were relocated during this time frane could update the forum about their delivery and offer any feedback. |
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Post by vpainter on Aug 23, 2013 5:31:04 GMT
Aramco does have an agreement with Customs that Aramco employees can bring in 110/120v appliances, no problem. I recommend you print out address labels and put this information on them:
employee's name - badge number
C/O Saudi Aramco
(Compound you are going to)
KSA
Then stick them on all the boxes your shipper has packed for you. We put one on every side of the box, do however many you want on a box.
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Post by Dahailang on Sept 18, 2013 12:52:26 GMT
We are running out of 110V light bubls ... there is no place in Khobar stores you can get them. Can anyone help?
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Post by Hadia on Sept 18, 2013 20:06:33 GMT
We found some recently at Tamimi on the Corniche. Have you been there?
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Post by vpainter on Sept 20, 2013 20:57:00 GMT
Saco World is where I got ours. There are some souq stores in Khobar who still have some. Tamimi.
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Post by Cookies on Aug 25, 2014 5:54:07 GMT
We moved into Dhahran main camp a month ago.
Most of our 2 bed house is 110 volts. There are plenty of outlets for that with the American socket type.
There are 4 double, 3 pin sockets for 220 volts. Kitchen, breakfast room, living room and landing area.
We bought half a dozen adapters in the airport so that we can use the US style sockets.
It is also useful to have some spare UK plugs and US plugs so that you can wire into an extension cable to create a multi point plug in station where needed.
Note, our 220v microwave won't work on 110v ( but the 220v outlet is adjacent to where I want to put it anyway) ...my hair dryer does work but slowly. The place where we put our TV in the living room has both 110 and 220 sockets.
There are no 220v sockets in the bedrooms.
Apparently they no longer sell 110 v appliances here in Saudi, but we managed to buy a printer that was both 110 and 220v
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dimk
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Post by dimk on Aug 29, 2014 6:29:53 GMT
dear vpainter,
In case someone wants to bring home appliances with the european plug 220v/240v (type C), then could a Power Converter AC220-240V to AC110-120V be useful?
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Post by vpainter on Aug 31, 2014 9:25:04 GMT
Yes, it would be useful, since 220V plugs are limited. Unless you are housed in the Dhahran Tower, where all the plugs are 220V.
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