Import duty on goods coming from China

KatrinaWaves

DoaM said:

KatrinaWaves said:

The GBP is purely there because the site knows your location and shows you your local currency. That’s literally all it means. This comes up a lot with co.uk domains too, anyone can have one. 

I wondered that too ... so I checked from my work computer which exits to the Internet via a server in the Netherlands ... the website still showed me prices in GBP rather than EUR. So it must be some other method they're using.

What’s the server time/location though (not the physical location) as if you are a UK company despite the server physically being in the Netherlands they can set it to your actual location 

Sandtree

DoaM said:
I wondered that too ... so I checked from my work computer which exits to the Internet via a server in the Netherlands ... the website still showed me prices in GBP rather than EUR. So it must be some other method they're using.

Or maybe the functionality is limited... if I connect via local wifi in the UK on a very slow computer it initially shows as USD and then switches to GBP as the page continues to render. If I go via our VPN which makes my IP appear as if in the USA then the prices stay in USD

DoaM

KatrinaWaves said:

DoaM said:

KatrinaWaves said:

The GBP is purely there because the site knows your location and shows you your local currency. That’s literally all it means. This comes up a lot with co.uk domains too, anyone can have one. 

I wondered that too ... so I checked from my work computer which exits to the Internet via a server in the Netherlands ... the website still showed me prices in GBP rather than EUR. So it must be some other method they're using.

What’s the server time/location though (not the physical location) as if you are a UK company despite the server physically being in the Netherlands they can set it to your actual location 

No idea of the server time location - I have no access to it. I also don't know if that end point is only reserved for UK employees, or whether other EU colleagues also traverse it. What I do know though is that sometimes the end point is a server in France, and if I use google.com to search then results will appear in Dutch/French respectively.

Spank

Sandtree said:

DoaM said:
I wondered that too ... so I checked from my work computer which exits to the Internet via a server in the Netherlands ... the website still showed me prices in GBP rather than EUR. So it must be some other method they're using.

Or maybe the functionality is limited... if I connect via local wifi in the UK on a very slow computer it initially shows as USD and then switches to GBP as the page continues to render. If I go via our VPN which makes my IP appear as if in the USA then the prices stay in USD

Well they definitely lie on the items that say things like "engineering sample $0 value"

Sandtree

Spank said:
Well they definitely lie on the items that say things like "engineering sample $0 value"

Sorry, was meant more as a tongue in cheek comment that you pay £50 for "genuine replicas" and they declare the value as £2... irrespective of the true value the custom form requires the send to declare the price paid for commercial products.

With all the China bashing recently on the forum its probably worth pointing out that isnt always the case and there are plenty of great companies too... I bought new feet for our chairs in our last flat that cost something like £5 for 30 which were delivered within the week from China. A well known DIY company sold what looked like the identical feet for £6 for 4 plus P&P

visidigi

They are going to be faker than a fake thing on fake day in a fake place.
When you claim on your credit card and they ask you to return it to China point out to them its illegal to knowingly export counterfeit goods from the UK.

davidmcn

visidigi said:

They are going to be faker than a fake thing on fake day in a fake place.
When you claim on your credit card and they ask you to return it to China point out to them its illegal to knowingly export counterfeit goods from the UK.

I don't think returning an import counts as "exporting". 

Hermione_Granger

visidigi said:

and they ask you to return it to China point out to them its illegal to knowingly export counterfeit goods from the UK.

The only counterfeit goods that it's illegal to post either internally in the UK or out of the country are current bank notes & currency and postage stamps. 
In many cases, it's not even illegal to bring counterfeits into the UK by post. If the rights holder has placed a request with HMRC, these goods can be stopped when they arrive here but if no such request has been made, they will generally be allowed to enter.
There may be restrictions on fake goods entering China but that's a different matter.

born_again

visidigi said:

They are going to be faker than a fake thing on fake day in a fake place.
When you claim on your credit card and they ask you to return it to China point out to them its illegal to knowingly export counterfeit goods from the UK.

Care to provide a link to the brand holder to prove they are fake?
Bet you can't....
No claim on card unless they do not turn up.