2nd hand from US?
- Thread starter Munkeh
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may be may be not!!! depends if your unlucky enough. If its being sent directly from a store then you may well have to pay but if you have a friend out there who could post it then it may be less likley to get charged, just say its a preasent or something. If you do import it then all thell do is ask you to pay the tax on it. im sure people who use e-bay dont pay customs tax on stuff they buy (well not all anyway.)
You'll normally have to pay duty, but depending on who you get it from, they may be nice enough to put a slightly *ahem* low estimate of the value of the goods so that you don't have to pay so much. Allegedly.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that someone had ordered about $800 of paintball stuff from the states over the last couple of months and had only paid £12 duty, that person would be a very happy bunny. Of course that's a hypothetical situation.
Shipping varies widely as well (and a LOT of US online stores refuse to ship abroad. Others do but only let you pay using Amex) - one place wanted $45 for shipping a $39 drop! Most I've paid is $24 shipping and that was for a big order.
If you get the right trader it can work out a lot cheaper than buying in the UK. My stuff worked out cheaper than the UK supplier was charging ex-VAT!
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that someone had ordered about $800 of paintball stuff from the states over the last couple of months and had only paid £12 duty, that person would be a very happy bunny. Of course that's a hypothetical situation.
Shipping varies widely as well (and a LOT of US online stores refuse to ship abroad. Others do but only let you pay using Amex) - one place wanted $45 for shipping a $39 drop! Most I've paid is $24 shipping and that was for a big order.
If you get the right trader it can work out a lot cheaper than buying in the UK. My stuff worked out cheaper than the UK supplier was charging ex-VAT!
Duty
If you get caught for it, here's what customs charge you=
for a purchased item above £18 value = Vat on item and shipping plus brokerage fees of about 5 to 7%
FOR A GIFT!!!! above £36 value = see as above!
I've only had two items stopped, an air system and a boo-yah frame, both fairly high value. Smaller itams are more likely to slip through, as are items with a low value "ahem, cough!"
Of course encouraging someone to write down the commercial value of a product is a crime, you are the criminal for asking and customs may decide to f**k you up the chad for tax evasion!
Just so you know!!
Laterz
Ian
If you get caught for it, here's what customs charge you=
for a purchased item above £18 value = Vat on item and shipping plus brokerage fees of about 5 to 7%
FOR A GIFT!!!! above £36 value = see as above!
I've only had two items stopped, an air system and a boo-yah frame, both fairly high value. Smaller itams are more likely to slip through, as are items with a low value "ahem, cough!"
Of course encouraging someone to write down the commercial value of a product is a crime, you are the criminal for asking and customs may decide to f**k you up the chad for tax evasion!
Just so you know!!
Laterz
Ian
But do you have to pay C&E duty on a second hand purchase! Like on the classified section of these boards?
in theory yes but there are ways to avoid it
basically get the person you buy it off to mark it as a gift and you stand a good chance of not paying the tax at customs
ive bought stuff off shops and they marked em as samples before today and i didnt pay anything
basically get the person you buy it off to mark it as a gift and you stand a good chance of not paying the tax at customs
ive bought stuff off shops and they marked em as samples before today and i didnt pay anything
allegedly
I've heard that "sponsorship", "Warranty return", "Samples" all work.
Can't quite remember where I heard that though ;