UK Customs ..

[Cliff Lee-Buechel]

I want to buy some Dutchware from the US and wondered what is the max import buy is before UK customs suck the fun out of it ?

Anyone know?

Cheers

 

[EM - paul]

£15 or less. delivery counts towards the £15 too. dutch is a stickler for declaring the correct amount too which for me usually leads to a £1 vat bill plus £9 from parcel force fee.

 

[Cliff Lee-Buechel]

owww that sucks I hoped it was more than that without postage

 

[EM - paul]

used to be £19 but they dropped it a few years back after jersey started a vat haven retail bonanza lol

 

[Whiteburn]

I've found the application charges to be a bit of a lottery.
I've had packages declared at $100's through without a charge & then one at $30 get clobbered.
The handling charge has always been more substantial than the tax which is a bummer.
I may have been lucky but 75% of the time I've got away without any charges.

 

[murpharoo]

My experience is similar to @Whiteburn

Some big value items seem to slip through whereas other smaller ones get charged. A postie I chatted to said some containers / shipments get checked thoroughly , others not at all.

A bit of a lottery....

 

[Meadows]

See if UK hammocks has anything you need, or if they will order it in with their bulk orders.
Good luck
Neil

 

[Gadget]

Suggest this goes in the Where To Buy section,
http://www.trek-lite.com/index.php?forums/where-to-buy.29/

 

[Shewie]

The intention of Where to Buy was more about posting links to manufacturers/retailers etc

I'll leave this one here