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Stop daylight robbery - customs and duty etc.

Mumraaa
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I just bought a monitor from south Korea through ebay and the price was £198 with free delivery I thought wow as it was an amazing monitor and then bought it thinking thats it. I then realised even though there was no mention of it I probably would pay some VAT etc. and I thought ok I guess thats fair.
The bill for this £198 object came today : £105 !!! My jaw dropped I have found out recently that most people have paid between £0 and £50 for exactly the same object no one has even got to my dizzy hieghts of £105!! It makes me sick that they can take an object like this which has already had its postage paid for may i say and slap over 55 percent extra on top of it!! Jesus daylight robbery!
Anyway it just needs to be sorted out its so bad! I want to type more but I have to go - just wanted to throw it out there!
ps I was speaking to one guy from canada just now and he paid $20 :O
Well at least I'll sleep well tonight knowing I paid for one light bulb : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10717234/Police-spend-100-to-change-a-light-bulb.html
The bill for this £198 object came today : £105 !!! My jaw dropped I have found out recently that most people have paid between £0 and £50 for exactly the same object no one has even got to my dizzy hieghts of £105!! It makes me sick that they can take an object like this which has already had its postage paid for may i say and slap over 55 percent extra on top of it!! Jesus daylight robbery!
Anyway it just needs to be sorted out its so bad! I want to type more but I have to go - just wanted to throw it out there!
ps I was speaking to one guy from canada just now and he paid $20 :O
Well at least I'll sleep well tonight knowing I paid for one light bulb : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10717234/Police-spend-100-to-change-a-light-bulb.html
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I just bought a monitor from south Korea through ebay and the price was £198 with free delivery I thought wow as it was an amazing monitor and then bought it thinking thats it. I then realised even though there was no mention of it I probably would pay some VAT etc. and I thought ok I guess thats fair.
The bill for this £198 object came today : £105 !!! My jaw dropped I have found out recently that most people have paid between £0 and £50 for exactly the same object no one has even got to my dizzy hieghts of £105!! It makes me sick that they can take an object like this which has already had its postage paid for may i say and slap over 55 percent extra on top of it!! Jesus daylight robbery!
Anyway it just needs to be sorted out its so bad! I want to type more but I have to go - just wanted to throw it out there!
ps I was speaking to one guy from canada just now and he paid $20 :O
Well at least I'll sleep well tonight knowing I paid for one light bulb : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10717234/Police-spend-100-to-change-a-light-bulb.html
OP trawled the net and found a cheap Korean monitor for his electronic gadget. He bought it cheap and got the thing imported by a courier. HM Revenue and Customs checked said package on arrival in the UK and slapped a customs charge on this. OP is upset.
Today's lesson. Always check what others costs are involved should you find a cheap alternative on some foreign website.
The cost of a light bulb is irrelevant.0 -
Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »BoP will now interpret for the understanding amongst us.
OP trawled the net and found a cheap Korean monitor for his electronic gadget. He bought it cheap and got the thing imported by a courier. HM Revenue and Customs checked said package on arrival in the UK and slapped a customs charge on this. OP is upset.
Today's lesson. Always check what others costs are involved should you find a cheap alternative on some foreign website.
The cost of a light bulb is irrelevant.
I did check I spoke to many people in forums about it none had payed more than £50 in fact 3 pages nothing for the exact same item in the UK only one had to pay £50 and he thought was unlucky. Seems it's a lottery...ebay is a uk website.
It's ridiculous charging 20 percent of the delivery cost which actually was stated as free and was paid by the Korean and possibly over estimated. And then to get hit with duty from a country we have a free trade agreement with. 14 percent then vat on that 14 percent yeek! Spoke to a guy from Canada he paid £11 (only pretty much ten times less)! What a beautiful system we have!
Translation of bops post: nonsense:T . Today's lesson don't read bops posts.
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I did check I spoke to many people in forums about it none had payed more than £50 in fact 3 pages nothing for the exact same item in the UK only one had to pay £50 and he thought was unlucky. Seems it's a lottery...ebay is a uk website.
It's ridiculous charging 20 percent of the delivery cost which actually was stated as free and was paid by the Korean and possibly over estimated. And then to get hit with duty from a country we have a free trade agreement with. 14 percent then vat on that 14 percent yeek! Spoke to a guy from Canada he paid £11 (only pretty much ten times less)! What a beautiful system we have!
Translation of bops post: nonsense:T . Today's lesson don't read bops posts.
20% is the VAT payable on imported goods. There is no separate agreement re goods from Korea (or anywhere else outside the EU).
eBay is registered in Luxembourg, not the UK!!!
Crackers!!!Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman0 -
notanewuser wrote: »20% is the VAT payable on imported goods. There is no separate agreement re goods from Korea (or anywhere else outside the EU).
eBay is registered in Luxembourg, not the UK!!!
Crackers!!
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