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Rep Power: 33 | silver or gold jewellery (2.5%), or imitation silver and gold jewellery (4%). Great lets all buy real silver and gold then. Ben |
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![]() | In Australia the iPod touch was £110, thats considerably cheaper than here. |
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Rep Power: 17 | Unfortunately as the pound is currently worth about 3 milk bottle tops, you won't actually be able to buy anything! Still, it is not all bad news - SmoothWall does a huge chunk of its business overseas, but mostly we buy in britain... the low pound really is a(nother) decent reason to "buy british" wherever possible! |
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Rep Power: 32 | Once you add VAT and postage it's often not all that different anyway especially as the £ has dropped by 25% against the $ |
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I usually factor in around 25% extra cost now for any purchases from abroad. | |
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Rep Power: 1 | Wait, so we still pay VAT on duty free goods we have brought in? I thought all we'd be paying is delivery, and that VAT and duty were interchangeable? |
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We're talking about ordering and getting stuff delivered from abroad, specifically from anywhere outside of the EU. | |
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Rep Power: 13 | I don't mind paying VAT on stuff ordered abroad providing I don't get hit for "sales tax" of whatever variety in the source country. What I do find objectionable is the thieving Post Office charging me £8.50 to collect £1.70 of duty on ONE T shirt! [/rant] |
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Rep Power: 8 | I was once charged a £30 opening and inspection fee on a Zen I ordered from the states. |
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![]() | May I add a few points. Sending things as gifts doesn't work anymore as the law says that everything should go through charges if over the amount they specify. What you can do is tell the seller to declare it as a used item and mark the value for something like $10. Also not to include any invoice inside or outside of the parcel. Then Customs will not put any charge on your order. If the order has been insured there will be a charge based on the insured value. I have imported laptops from abroad by using this procedure without having to pay any extra money |
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Rep Power: 13 | I suspect that C&E would regard this as "evading duty", and you'd get a good legal kicking if you get found out! |
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![]() | Well it's only second hand equipment I am talking about and I believe people shouldn't have to pay VAT when comes to getting used items from abroad. We pay new staff too expensive already over here. It's that $1:£1 ratio that makes a 300$ laptop to cost £300 over here |
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