:) I am thinking of ordering from the US, as im from the UK the exchange rate seems too good to waste, Anyone know any good US companies that ship the UK.
want to buy components
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:) I am thinking of ordering from the US, as im from the UK the exchange rate seems too good to waste, Anyone know any good US companies that ship the UK.
want to buy components
Im interested in it too...
I thought about using Ebay as then the person selling it if not a trader can send it as a gift... do any trader on ebay or otherwise send it as a gift?
I always feel like doing this, i frequent a USA board and they are always posting about the awesome prices that they have. Dell 2001FP for $554, thats right, £300 for a Dell 2001FP.
But when you add shipping and import tax and the fact that you're warranty may aswell be non-existant :(
The only way i'll do it is if I get a contact over there that receives the goods and checks them before sending them to me as a gift. That way i should have no obvious warranty problems and i'll bypass import tax :)
I have that contact. I have a friend over in Maine new england. So i was thinking of using someone like www.newegg.com and getting it shipped to maine, then them seding over here. Isnt shipping costs done by weight and size.Am i correct in saying that mobo,psu,cpu,ram,gfx card wouldnt weigh much or be that big, therefore cost hardly anything to ship?
import tax always kills it. i bought a psu cost me £40 and i paid something like £15 shipping and then £15 import tax. it did work out still slightly cheaper but not worth the hassle.
btw if you break the law on importing goods you are very liable to problems.
How would i break the law ;) If i bought it all from the same place, would that work out cheaper?
Was planning to do this a while ago.
From what i gathered from here and my uncle, if customs discover what it is/its true value, you can have import tax (i think thats the name for it) stamped on it, which can be some stupid percentage of the price.
You can only send a gift up to the value of about £30-£40.
Ok lets say for example, i order components up to the value of 700 quid, how much tax, shipping, would i be expected to pay on top of that. If my friend over there shipped it to hear
Well, if your friend shipped it to you, and customs caught it, you MAY have to pay OVER 50% of the cost of the goods. Im sure the figure was somewhere around 85-90%.
Heres my thread i've dig up, have a read
Importing
It seems dodgy to me but my friend always buys stuff of ebay and gets it as a gift.
Also a friend use to send me stuff and that was worth more then £30 but only a 100 maybe if its stupidy expensive then maybe they are more likely to do something i have no idea. I heard they shouldnt use fedex and another one i dont remember.
I think maybe the best way is if you have a friend who is visiting get the to buy it and bring it over... if its a laptop that is.... also TOSHIBA laptops have international warrenty.
again your only allowed to buy something like £140 to bring back to the uk
thats a **** rule :D. How am i gonna take advantage of the exchange rate then :(
hmm well. What about if theres no reciet, invoice etc.. in the box. No price tags. Customs wouldnt know how much you payed..
If you dont thinkthatll work, get him to rebox it, and write "broken" on a white lable, stick it too the pcb. They cant charge you for that?!
customs arnt dumb and have seen every trick in the book. no-one wants there items held up in a customs warehouse for 12months
lets not please turn this thread into an illegal 'how to defraud tax' one
lol. there must be a legal way. I doubt big companies pay **** loads of tax on there massive shipments
company tax relief is a completely different thing
check out this site
http://www.sloanefox.freeserve.co.uk/importukduty.htm
Yes they do, they just pay all of the charges on an account and pay it each month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merlin4458
The only legal way is to stump up the extra vat and customs charges.
http://www.hmce.gov.uk/channelsPorta...ageImport_Home
I think the biggest point raised so far is that if you buy from overseas and it goes tits up your pretty screwed, and its going to be a hell of a hassle to get anything replaced at all, add that to the fact your likely to get hit with an iport tax bill that would take the value of the item up to what it cost here anyway and it just turns into a gamble... and I say if you have that kind of cash to gamble with then just buy it from the UK.
And to voice my opinion on eBay, I dont really trust it, and I wouldnt buy computer parts off anyone on eBay becuase of the many risks involved, and the fact that something listed as new may be someone overclocking nuts 6 month old gfx card that he/she ramped up majorly and ditched for a new model, it might look new to the eye after a dust off, but you just dont know.
Saying that though, I was looking on eBay myself at gfx cards, and some of the offers are tempting... but in the end of the day its going to have to be a sweet deal for me to take that risk.
....u can also buy stuff from Sinapore/Hong kong/Taiwan/China.....
Still cheaper!!!
Espeically those latest gadgets from Hongkong...
Im now having my holiday in Shanghai, China...
I went shopping yesterday, saw the latest X850 XT PE....cost around 380GBP...
I think its not yet out in the uk yet.... so maybe i ll bring one back soon...:)
I meant get your friend who is american to come over with the laptop that way it looks like its for business use.
Please drop the talk on how to import illegally guys, i dont have time to clean up threads at the moment, so if it continues the threads will just be removed.
Talking about how to import things to get them cheaper is one thing, talking about how to defraud the government is another.
Cheers
Understandable agent. I dont wanna do anything ilegal, lets git this straight. But everyone would like to get things cheaper if POSSIBLE. what about close and stuff u buy form the US. I have brought 200 pounds worth of cloths back from US before,and had no probs :S. Is is jsut electircal items ?
Just somthing to bare in mind: Dell warranties are internationally tansferable.
Dell also give u bugger all for ur money, unless u mean buying form the US still?
An interesting figure but the Royal Mail parcel force delivery section usually has a figure of around £3million in outstanding import tax duty at any point in time.
They pay up front and then charge you to release the item. When you consider the amount of items they ship thats an awful LOT of outstanding import tax.
TiG
Your goods won't be insured for their value then, so if your parcel gets lost... you risk losing some serious money.Quote:
Originally Posted by |SilentDeath|
Sounds odd, whats stopping his friend *REALLY* sending him an expensive present?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clstrphbc_donut
Think about it, how are they to know that it isnt a real gift :confused:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcos
Because how often do you send friends really expensive gifts? :P
True :p, but i still believe they could not charge you for receiving a 'gift' from your friend, even if you did pay for it. As long as it was sent to his house first, i would not put up with any charge they try to impose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oakey
I've been sending frends in the UK expensive gifts! :p I just hope they dont figure out what I'm doing...
I thought you could only send items with a value lower than £18 as 'gift'? And if you've been declaring a lower value then it's fraud, and, as I said previously, the goods won't be insured to their real value. Which will cause you problems if anything happens.
I tried using the TARIC database to see how much duty would be payable. It comes up as zero-rated (for a complete PC system). Anyone know if that's correct? If so then you would only be liable for VAT wouldnt you?
http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_c...h=01&Year=2005
Ok, so what happens when someone sends an expensive gift to a friend/relative? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oakey
They have to mark the value down to £18 and it cant be insured?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcos
I never mark a value down! So then what do they do? Takes a guess?
BTW there is a name for Import tax evasion: Smuggling.
If one type of items is classed as no-tax then it will be covered by another one.
GAteKeeper
Anyone think the goverment is a bunch of buggers with VAT on this crap. I always thought it was for items that were to be resold in the UK so that they got there money back.
But this stuff is for personal use only, hmmm.
Also is the legitime way to not pay VAT or Tax for items coming in.... can we not talk about that?
I surprised that I have to pay the above if I buy a laptop while visiting the states and use it while im there. Surely I dont have to pay all the above on laptop, no?
Yup, move to the Channel Islands or Monaco..Quote:
Originally Posted by Defiant
Just about everything coming into the country is taxable, if something isn't then they change the definitions to make it so.
The £18/40 limit could do with reviewing though, iirc many countries allow quite a lot more to no ill affect.
So say I have a laptop when I went to the states, it dies and I buy a new while im there. Does this mean that I would be charged tax and vat when I brought it back into the country?
Like I said, that doesn't really happen does it? I have relatives all over the world and have never sent or received an expensive gift. They tend to usually buy them when visiting or bring them over. The fact 2 or 3 other people have also said "what happens if...." would also indicate most other people don't receive expensive gifts from relatives either :P
You'd have to go through the Red "I have something to declare" channel when you got back into the UK, where you'd then be charged VAT and possibly import duty (although last time I looked laptops appeared to be duty exempt?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Defiant
If you went though the Green "I have nothing to declare" channel you'd then be guilty of tax evasion (or something similar - I'm not a lawyer) if they caught you.
Man this country is crap some times :(