Robbing Bas***ds !!

[TheDaddy]

Time for a whinge , So i purchased a board from a member in Ireland. Postage was 3 times what is really should be and then i receive a ' Customs Notice '



I mean what in gods name are they actually thinking ? Does it look like I am running a business ?? Or just an easy target to try and extract some money from the working man ???

How do these dicks actually pick who pays what ? is it random ?

£8 of this was a 'Handling Fee' so that means they have charged me £8 to move it from one pile to another.

This country has gone to the dogs IMO , There is no 'GREAT' in Britain any more. I am sick to death of people who just able to slap you with fines and taxes whenever they want and for what ever value they want.

I have heard its worst for the Irish as more stuff entering gets slapped with import tax than us.

Dave.

 

[pooman2084]

Ironically it was the make Britain great again referendum that ushered in these duties and VAT charges… 🤷‍♂️

 

[big10p]

Not sure I understand? We have to pay duty on things bought for over a certain amount, from EU and beyond. Over the last couple of months, I've had to pay hundreds of pounds in duty, for things bought from Japan. It sucks, but what can you do? ☹️

 

[ExZX]

Fedex are the worst.
Currently chasing me for an ebay item I already paid import tax on. Original charge was about £11 and now up to £60. Have submitted evidence that I've paid the import tax and they just ignored it. Gave me a form for the seller to fill in so they can pay the import tax too.

Last year they were chasing me for an invoice for someone with the same name in a completely different postcode. That took months to sort out.
Their customer services don't exist as they just ignore emails and finding a phone number to speak to a real person is impossible. The company they use to chase debts are a bunch of chancers. They just buy up small sums of debt from companies like fedex in the hope people will pay up to avoid stress/ fuss.

One of their couriers left £500+ worth of PCBs on the doorstep too. Didn't knock or ring the doorbell so no idea how long they were there.

Never use Fedex. Bunch of c*nts

 

[pooman2084]

He wouldn’t have had to pay tax or customs on that amount from Ireland if we were in an EU country.

Japan and elsewhere is the same as before (albeit with a more complex VAT scheme that came in around the same time).

 

[yoganuggy]

Postage from Ireland to UK is the same as to Germany or France (zone 2). €21 for a standard parcel. Then it goes up to €30 if posting to Spain/Italy.

Sending receiving to/ from UK adds the vat and "admin fee". Admin fee receiving is €3.50.

https://www.anpost.com/getmedia/3c77fcd8-ebd7-467f-a519-ac7c7a21c199/Guide-Postal-Rates-Feb2024.pdf

At least UK has nice royal mail subsided postage rates costing the same to post to Northern Ireland as it is to say Manchester. There should be something like that for EU postage. Pre brexit we were spoiled with the likes of "parcel motel" when sending a chassis to Grant or buying on forums. Even Martin was able to palletise a cab and have transland delivery it to Ireland for €100. That would probably cost €500 now!

You can probably exploit a loophole posting cheap to/from Northern Ireland with a man in the middle.

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

I thought there was no import tax for stuff up to about £300 if buying goods.

Used to be the other way round with gifts.

 

[ExZX]

I thought there was no import tax for stuff up to about £300 if buying goods.

Used to be the other way round with gifts.

It's currently £135 limit and this assumes the buyer has already paid import tax. Anything above £135 will be stopped at customs and charges added.
On ebay import tax is paid automatically on both the item and postage costs in most cases. They rip off buyers as well as sellers now.
Then there are certain couriers ( see above ). Time these companies got fined for 'x' amount of complaints against them. Maybe then their customer services would improve.

 

[thegreathopper]

These brexiteers sure cost us money and time.

 

[Chopper79]

They used to open parcels to check goods. Now they just hit every parcel with "Customs Charges", without even opening them. It's a license to print money!. Handling fee? How else is it going to get here, without anyone touching it!? They are already being paid to do a job!

Can I have a latte please? Yes that's £2.80 plus a £1.25 handling fee!

 

[Spanky]

This is a Brexit Benefit you see. Now we've overthrown the shackles of Brussels' bureaucracy.

 

[WatchThemAllFallDown]

Come the revolution Dave, I'll be outside your house in a white van, give you 3 "honks" on the horn, and we will be off to track these people down!!!!!!

 

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[funk]

The duty I get and take on the chin, the handling fee I question being little more than profit on little overhead. I was stung for about £40 the other week on an order from ali, frustrating part being it was less than a quid over the limit in the first place. I'd received two similar size orders a few weeks earlier costing more with zero both too.