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Offline Flinty

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Re: customs tax on USA purchases!!!!!
« Reply #45 on: 03 March 2020, 09:40:28 PM »
Humm...you makes your choice and takes your chances.

I've had large-ish book orders (one was 10 hardbacks) from all over/outside the EU with no additional charges levied. But the five or six times I've ordered miniatures, I always managed to get charged.

The first couple of times from the States was due to P&P being included, so I then carefully calculated that in the next one - and got charged again as the stated value was bumped, presumably to cover the seller for insurance.
 
The other few times I hovered around the threshold I expected to get hit and wasn't disapointed. I can console myself that I am merely taking up the slack from you dodgers... :D

I really don't mind the VAT, after all it's taxes like these that (eventually and partially) end up paying for fun things like health insurance, servicable roads and safety through law enforcement.

But now I only order if I really must have something, and once I have factored in this:

I don’t see it as a con or whatever as it’s just another element that I price into the expected total cost.

However, Im fully prepared for some horrendous gouging after the Brexit Trade talks have gone south...


Offline Andrew Rae

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Re: customs tax on USA purchases!!!!!
« Reply #46 on: 03 March 2020, 09:43:36 PM »
@Arrigo Might have been a time to fill in a BOR286 form, I guess.

It’s fair to say import laws haven’t kept up with buying practices in the internet age, with what must be a massive growth in business to customer imports. Especially as the onus is on the importer.

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Re: customs tax on USA purchases!!!!!
« Reply #47 on: 03 March 2020, 10:10:54 PM »
Andrew it was back in 2014... and I was in UK for just one month and half that summer, then returning in fall. In 2014 I was literally commuting between Italy, London, Shrivenam, and Sandhurst... and I even led a brigade battlefield study... I was still 39 and young!  :D
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Re: customs tax on USA purchases!!!!!
« Reply #48 on: 05 March 2020, 09:28:35 AM »
I pretty much stopped buying from outside the EU a long time ago because of this (with the very occasional lapse when I just had to have something). It's been happening to me for many years. And seeing as we're not going to be in the EU much longer I guess I won't be buying from there either. At least I have the silver lining of being on the same Island as Nottinghamshire.





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Offline fastolfrus

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Re: customs tax on USA purchases!!!!!
« Reply #49 on: 05 March 2020, 10:19:38 PM »
At least I have the silver lining of being on the same Island as Nottinghamshire.

Until they declare independence...
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