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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The £11.50 is on orders over £135 which doesn’t attract the £8 fee.
The thing to take from all this is that we should be buying locally and not demanding crap is dragged all over the planet, if we still want to have a planet to inhabit.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
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hiraethified
Ah, the moral high ground. So are all your electronics locally sourced then?
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Not sure about that. It does say VAT zero on that bill. The retail price for the coat was £300. I have to point out that I am not in the habit of spending that sort of money from websites whereever they may be based it was a special Christmas treat partly funded with a present from my Mum. I had been looking forward to getting this winter coat for a long time so I paid the charges and put it down as a bad experience on the price. I have asked the Canadian supplier for a full refund of all the import charges. Brexit hurt me.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
A large number are made abroad of course, but I haven’t bought any from a retailer in another country, which I hope clears up whatever point it is you are trying to make here.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Hold on, you bought a coat from Canada and you’re blaming the import charges on Brexit?
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Yes because it was shipped via Frankfurt and Cologne and UPS (the courier) explicitly said that the delays on the parcel and (presumably) the unexpected charges were due to Brexit.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
UPS explicitly said that the charges were due to Brexit?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Pre Brexit I bought 8 packets of Openshaw Pork scratchings from Amazon UK and the postage/delivery to Portugal was a much as the scratchings
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
You could probably get a Ryanair round trip for less.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
When I came back to the UK last November I bought some Snaffling Pig pork scrachings back with me on the flight. They were rank. Better off paying the postage for the real mcoy
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Probably won’t be able to legally bring them in to Portugal any more, you’ll need to plug ‘em.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
This is what the supplier of my coat said:
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I've never seen SEF stop anyone at Faro airport in the non EU customs exit.
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hiraethified
I'm failing to see much of a difference to be honest, seeing as electronic goods often filter though multiple distribution European centres, and UK companies often just ship stuff in from Europe and forward it to you. But if these are the lengths you need to go to excuse the obvious added inconvenience of buying goods from Europe, post -Brexit, so be it.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That's the delay not the charges. If you import a £300 coat from Canada of course you're going to pay duty!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Doesn’t say anything at all about the costs. If you import items from Canada they will be subject to import duty and VAT, if they go via UPS they will always transit Cologne as that is their hub, it is customs bonded though so it will never enter or leave the EU, it will be a straight Canada to U.K. transaction. Was this at the very start of January by any chance?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Obvious and added inconvenience? Having to read a few paragraphs of text and you throw your toys out of the pram. Sounds like you just wanted to have a moan about Brexit and thought this would be a good point upon which to have it.
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hiraethified
If you haven't made any money since March 2020 and you could - or rather could have - saved a fair few quid from buying from a German site, then it's worth the effort.
*typo corrected
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Did you mean March 2020 ?
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hiraethified
I see the hyperbole express is roaring through this thread.
This is a discussion about the impact of Brexit. I just gave an illustration of something that has changed for the worse. And it's not like the press isn't full of similar stories right now.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
That's the delay not the charges. If you import a £300 coat from Canada of course you're going to pay duty!
This is NOT normal and it is Brexit related. According to this thread there is a good chance that Arc'teryx will refund.
bimble
floofy
I had an import duty invoice the other day via DHL. Bought something on the internet from India. Just paid it without trying to fathom it, was expecting something like it, but when you do make a half arsed attempt to learn how it all works on the government’s website, this is what you get.
Not brilliant.
I did click the link but passed out from boredom and bamboozlement within seconds.
Not brilliant.
I did click the link but passed out from boredom and bamboozlement within seconds.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Fuck me, so now we have coats from Canada and widgets from India both attracting duty and this somehow down to Brexit.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Where did they buy it from and how much did it cost?
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Dunno - I've not really been following all this but weren't we previously importing into the EU where there's an agreement while now we're importing into Britain where there's (yet) no agreement?
bimble
floofy
No I know there’s always been duty on stuff like this! Just thought Gov website fuckup was bleakly funny.
If the page on something this currently important (import duties from abroad) is Out Of Date due to brexit, you fix it.
And I don’t buy widgets.
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