Bridesmaid Dresses from America help!

Littleone_2

Hi all

Ive decided to order my bridesmaid dresses from america as they are cheaper and nowhere to my knowledge stocks Bill Levkoff in the UK. The dresses altogether come to £255 approx excluding postage but someone suggested getting them posted to a relative in the US and they can ship it cheaper and so there will be no or little tax on it coming into the UK. I was wondering what the normal delivery charge would be approx for 4 tea length dresses from america and what the tax may be roughly if any if a relative posts them to me in the UK as Im trying to budget for this and im really stressing!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many Thanks

Emms

Dont know about costs but there is no guarantee that you wont be charged customs tax if a relative posts it to you. Generallly people mark items as gift as you dont get charged tax on gifts but if customs opened it then i doubt they would see it as a gift and charge you anyways.

Emma

iwanttosave_2

I wouldn't risk it to be honest, they are getting really wary of things like this and if they find it to be fraud, then they will burn the contents.

The tax would only be a max of 30% of the total cost, as I say, this is the max, they might not charge you, they might charge you 5%. You are looking at a max of £76.