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Buying an iphone in Hong Kong

bestyman · 2017-10-14 18:20:11

We will be going to Hong Kong and Bangkok in December. An iphone X is £200 cheaper in Hong Kong than UK, not sure of Thai price yet. Are there any problems with buying one abroad? It would be from an official Apple store so assuming any returns can be done in the UK store? What about VAT? Can I claim back the VAT in HK? Do…

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DUKE Posts: 7,360 Forumite

6 December 2017 at 4:33PM

We bought an iPad very cheap online from China some years back, the only problems we had was waiting 6 weeks for delivery, & it was all in Chinese when it came. So we took it to the Apple Store who happily (no pun intended) sorted it out for us.

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