nwgarratt
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I am so glad you are not my accountant!
It would become £13.40 not £17.40
Slip up with typing. Still means more to the customs people.
I am so glad you are not my accountant!
It would become £13.40 not £17.40
£12.70 customs =
£8.00 = admin (more if faster courier)
£4.72 = 17.5% VAT
Be prepared that by January next year, VAT is going up to 20% so the £12.70 becomes £17.40.
Current $ exchange rate is 1.56.
October Customs Exchange Rates
Keep orders below $28 before shipping to avoid extra charges. I won't go above $25 to be sure.
It's been said many times before, but the fact that in your example the Admin fee is almost double the cost of the VAT is scandolous IMO
I'm wanting to get this from amazon.com (US site):
Amazon.com: The Twilight Zone: Season 1 [Blu-ray]: Rod Serling, Anne Francis, Burgess Meredith, Claude Akins, Ida Lupino, Jack Klugman, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Ted Knight, Ron Howard: Movies & TV
It's about £60 if you buy it in the UK but works out to about £36 from amazon.com given the current exchange rate.
What experience do people have of amazon.com and importing? Will I get charged import/duty etc?
I have friends in the USA. Could I get it sent to them and then if they sent it to me marked as 'gift' would I get charged?
Thanks if you can help
You are pretty much guaranteed with Amazon.
The Gift idea ups the amount from £18 to £36, so if your friends mark it £35 you are ok.
I would buy it from here, its cheaper and the postage is cheaper too
Twilight Zone-1st Season Blu-ray | Free Shipping at DeepDiscount.com
And even free in the USA I believe.
If you can wait a couple of weeks DDD often have 20% off everything thanksgiving sales (its also been 25% off the last two years due to the recession).
I know some couriers deliver first and demand the customs fees down the line, but has anybody heard of Royal Mail doing that? Or is it just that customs missed this package? I've never once had a package that needed fees paying sail through, although others here have spoken of such luck.
Which retailer was that, please?I bought from a US shop using a discount code and they assured me the discounted price (under the customs limit) would be marked on the package, however they actually put the full price (which I didn't pay) on the item.
Maybe customs don't bother with clothing, as children's is zero-rated for VAT, and it's probably not worth their time to check when the slip doesn't specify adult clothing.It was actually a US clothing site, MyTeeSpot.com. I'd e-mailed beforehand to find out which price they'd list but they were obviously wrong.
Exactly the same thing has just happened to me! I ordered the Studio One Anthology from DD only because it was briefly $24.89, well under the customs limit, and today I received a bill from Royal Mail for £15.47. I rang the sorting office and they tell me DD has declared the full RRP of $59.98! (Interesting that they haven't even rounded it down to the nearest dollar, as DD have done for years with the amounts handwritten.)A little heads-up for those DeepDiscount customers out there. They now seem to be using inflated values on their customs declaration forms!
Damn! Me too! However, my SecondSpin order acknowledgement only showed the discounted prices (for each item and the order total), so perhaps we'll be okay!As DD also now seem to dispatch orders for SecondSpin, I'm worried that they may also declare an undiscounted value on a 20% off order I just made with them...
Certainly a hassle. I had to write several letters to HMRC and Royal Mail in the good old DVD Soon Diamond Card days. But I got a refund, from HMRC and Royal Mail, in each case....claiming back the VAT and Royal Mail fees sounds like a big hassle, even if successful.
I think it was Deep Discount I gave up ordering some time back as they were charging 2 P&P on a DVD,s if it had 2 disc in it the same rate as for 2 seperate films box's with 1 disc in.
Was that not DVDpacific?
I have been ordering from DDD non stop since 2002 and I cannot remember them doing this to me.
My recent SecondSpin order arrived today, dispatched by DeepDiscount. Fortunately, the customs value was correctly stated as $24. (The actual SecondSpin order value, after discount, was $24.27.)As DD also now seem to dispatch orders for SecondSpin, I'm worried that they may also declare an undiscounted value on a 20% off order I just made with them...
VAT: low value consignment relief
The level at which the low value consignment relief (LVCR) applies will be reduced from £18 to £15 from 1 November 2011. This is the threshold below which goods imported from outside the EU are VAT-free.
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So the customs limit will be £15 come November. Fantastic.