Buying from Amazon.de

masscrazy

Jemma-T wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]A U2711 with a price starting with "£4----"? Never thought I'd see the day.

Yes, http://www.amazon.it/dp/B0038JEINA It was €518,80 (€507,11 + €15,88 shipping). It's back up in price now. Cheaper now at http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B0038JEINA

I ordered one for my SIL and it looks like it actually came from Milton Keynes and is due for delivery tomorrow from City Link.

£442.30inc with the usual CC surcharge.

Great price when you consider the rather poorly presented Hazro version of this hovers at £360-£400.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
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Sorry didnt realise you were after one also, would have dropped you a pm about buying from Dell when i did.

SIL?

So you bought it from Amazon.es?

How do you know the Hazro's arent any good, heard some good stuff about em, seen a video on YT, they look pretty good. Not as solid or featured rich as the Dell but good enough...

shaun_from_Africa

PeteMc wrote: »

Perhaps the OP will listen now there are two of us telling him the same thing i.e. No VAT, Customs or Excise Duty are payable on the monitor from Amazon.de.

I know that it won't be applicable to the monitor, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

When buying goods from other EU countries, there can still be extra VAT to pay.
This is the usually the case when buying goods that are being sold at a lower VAT rate than in the UK such as with silver bullion coins or bars from Germany. (The VAT rate for them is 5% as opposed to the 20% here).

Once the German retailer passes a certain value of goods exported (The limit is set very low so that it is only small businesses who can export and still charge the lower VAT rate), then they are required to charge the VAT rate set in the country of destination for the goods.

If it wasn't done this way, I would order a few hundred 1oz silver bullion coins from Germany and get them for 15% less than they are available here. You are charged the 5% rate if you fly over and pick them up, but not if they are delivered to the UK.

terra_ferma

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

I know that it won't be applicable to the monitor, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

When buying goods from other EU countries, there can still be extra VAT to pay.
This is the usually the case when buying goods that are being sold at a lower VAT rate than in the UK such as with silver bullion coins or bars from Germany. (The VAT rate for them is 5% as opposed to the 20% here).

Once the German retailer passes a certain value of goods exported (The limit is set very low so that it is only small businesses who can export and still charge the lower VAT rate), then they are required to charge the VAT rate set in the country of destination for the goods.

If it wasn't done this way, I would order a few hundred 1oz silver bullion coins from Germany and get them for 15% less than they are available here. You are charged the 5% rate if you fly over and pick them up, but not if they are delivered to the UK.

I believe what you are saying applies to business that sell over £73k worth of goods to the UK. In that case they need to be VAT registered in the UK, and charge UK vat rate, payable to the UK.
However it's their business how the go about it, and how much they charge their customer, and it's HMRC's business to check that this is happening. For EU purchases the supplier is responsible for paying VAT.
What will NOT happen is for the goods to be stopped when entering the UK, and the customer charged VAT (as for goods from outside the EU).
Also what cannot happen is for the company you buy from to send you another bill, or increase the price after the purchase.

But it seems to me that Amazon, a truly international business, has already taken care of this, by charging different rates depending on where you purchase from, rather than what site you use:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=502578

http://www.amazon.it/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200556990

Jemma-T

SIL = Sister-in-law.


Monitor arrived in perfect order. You can tell it's all been checked for dead/stuck pixels (Dell will replace the monitor even if there's 1 bad one)).

This was never in Italy. Germany at some stage for sure but I think it was always in the UK with the intention of mainland Europe delivery as there's no UK plug (any kettle type lead works fine). I've had lots of stuff from the other Amazons and they seem to have 3 or 4 hubs.


Amazon EU pay their tax in Luxembourg I believe. Luxembourg offer Amazon the best rates/business model I assume. Amazon can register to any one country in the EU (or country that has economic agreements with the EU).

JohnHunter

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

I know that it won't be applicable to the monitor, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

When buying goods from other EU countries, there can still be extra VAT to pay.
This is the usually the case when buying goods that are being sold at a lower VAT rate than in the UK such as with silver bullion coins or bars from Germany. (The VAT rate for them is 5% as opposed to the 20% here).

Once the German retailer passes a certain value of goods exported (The limit is set very low so that it is only small businesses who can export and still charge the lower VAT rate), then they are required to charge the VAT rate set in the country of destination for the goods.

If it wasn't done this way, I would order a few hundred 1oz silver bullion coins from Germany and get them for 15% less than they are available here. You are charged the 5% rate if you fly over and pick them up, but not if they are delivered to the UK.

So if you could get a cheap flight to Germany then would it be worth buying as many silver bullion coins as you could carry and only paying 5% VAT instead of 20%?

What is the limit to how many you can carry through customs?

Are you sure they would not charge you anything else on top?