FedEx sent me a Duty & Tax Invoice - Advice needed

flyingflea

camelot1971 said:

flyingflea said:

I won a competition to win a camera from a US based company. It arrived the next week via FedEx but today I have received a Duty & Tax invoice for £25.86 (£12 clearance admin charge + £13.86 disbursements out of the scope of EU VAT).

The camera itself was worth £69. Is it right that I have to pay to receive my prize?

Why are you entering contests in the US if you don't want to pay duties?

Wow, I did not think I would be answering a post I made nearly 3 years ago! To answer your question, the competition terms did not specify which country it was open to and I assumed as they sold their website sold products to this country it would be open to the UK. I noticed in future competitions they specified US only.

JonOapostropheBrien

> You had the option to refuse it surely?
No, I didn't. It was propped up outside my door by the postman and brought into the house by my wife when she got home.

mattyprice4004

flyingflea said:

camelot1971 said:

flyingflea said:

I won a competition to win a camera from a US based company. It arrived the next week via FedEx but today I have received a Duty & Tax invoice for £25.86 (£12 clearance admin charge + £13.86 disbursements out of the scope of EU VAT).

The camera itself was worth £69. Is it right that I have to pay to receive my prize?

Why are you entering contests in the US if you don't want to pay duties?

Wow, I did not think I would be answering a post I made nearly 3 years ago! To answer your question, the competition terms did not specify which country it was open to and I assumed as they sold their website sold products to this country it would be open to the UK. I noticed in future competitions they specified US only.

I think someone else posted a similar query in the middle of your thread (on page 2) - so the question probably wasn't aimed at you.   
3 years is certainly a long time to dig up a thread! 

powerful_Rogue

Clearly pays as much attention to post dates then he does import laws.

custardy

JonOapostropheBrien said:

> You had the option to refuse it surely?
No, I didn't. It was propped up outside my door by the postman and brought into the house by my wife when she got home.

Really? The postman delivered it and then Fed Ex invoiced you? I would certainly query that one

JonOapostropheBrien

custardy said:

JonOapostropheBrien said:

> You had the option to refuse it surely?
No, I didn't. It was propped up outside my door by the postman and brought into the house by my wife when she got home.

Really? The postman delivered it and then Fed Ex invoiced you? I would certainly query that one

I realised what I'd typed immediately I hit the post button, considered posting another message to correct my mistake but figured no one on here would be enough of a !!!!!! to bother pointing it out. Just goes to show how wrong you can be.

custardy

JonOapostropheBrien said:

custardy said:

JonOapostropheBrien said:

> You had the option to refuse it surely?
No, I didn't. It was propped up outside my door by the postman and brought into the house by my wife when she got home.

Really? The postman delivered it and then Fed Ex invoiced you? I would certainly query that one

I realised what I'd typed immediately I hit the post button, considered posting another message to correct my mistake but figured no one on here would be enough of a !!!!!! to bother pointing it out. Just goes to show how wrong you can be.

Sure ya did. 

JonOapostropheBrien

powerful_Rogue said:

Clearly pays as much attention to post dates then he does import laws.

I pay as much attention to import laws as I need to, given that I never import anything.
BTW, I think that "then" should be "as" and there should be a "to" between the "does" and the "import". I tend to pay attention to that sort of thing as I use the English language every day.