reg Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Hi all. When you have gear sent from the u.s.a and the customs over here have it do they inform you what they want in the way of vat and whatever. or do you have to chase them up as they have had two reels of mine for ten days and not a word from them Reg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Reg, You should get a slip through the door from the post office i think. 10 days is about right so nothing to worry about yet PJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conger king Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 you will receve a customs bill and when paid in full they will arrange delivery date the trick is to get the person sending to put gift on parcel hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 A mentioned above you will eventually receive a customs bill ( I got mine via Parcelforce who charge a fee to collect the duty as well - The fee was almost as much if not more than the duty they needed to collect as well ). I got a letter through the door and went to the parcelforce depot to collect ( and pay the duty ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan F (bathclaret) Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 As Paul says, 2 weeks is pretty average. The Post Office acts as collection agent for HMRC and will (eventually) leave you a slip saying you have a package with underpaid postage on it at your Sorting Office. Calculating the duty due is crazy because there's a pretty random list of different types of goods, all of which attract duty at different rates, as a percentage of the value of the goods. The stinger is that Royal Mail impose a fee for "assessing" (delaying) your package of, I think, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Thanks Lad's I know the first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newboy Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Thanks Lad's I know the first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Just heard that it has been released by the british customs on the 23 so sit back and wait for the shock" I ordered a shimano culcutta 400. plus a shimano tld 30 two speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg Posted July 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Well I finally got the reels and the bill which was not as bad as I thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conger king Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 good deal sham about the vat but if he had put gift no vat to pay as i have done this before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 good deal sham about the vat but if he had put gift no vat to pay as i have done this before Worth bearing in mind though that doing this is essentially no different to attempting to smuggle the item into the country Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reg Posted July 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Another thing that was stamped on the side of the box was that a private person sending anything to another private person. anything over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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