Importing Dvds

[marker]

Hi can anyone tell me if they have been charged for importing dvds from abroard Aus in this case, when I import tv spares anything over £18 is at risk of being charged an import duty !! sometimes they bother sometimes they dont, just wondered if anyone has had experience of this with dvds, the dvds would come to £27 many thanks den

[batman]

name='tvden']Hi can anyone tell me if they have been charged for importing dvds from abroard Aus in this case, when I import tv spares anything over £18 is at risk of being charged an import duty !! sometimes they bother sometimes they dont, just wondered if anyone has had experience of this with dvds, the dvds would come to £27 many thanks den

The only time I have been charged for importing dvds is when I have bought from a US company called OLDIES.com. They do a good offer on orders for 5 dvds + but the boxes are so big that they incur a customs charge 'cos they often get opened by officials. Last time it cost me an extra £12.



Bats.

[Mr Dean]

I've bought several US DVDs through Amazon.com. The value is usually shown on the label and when I foolishly bought two together costing more than £18 I was charged an extra £8, I think. When I've ordered single DVDs valued at less than £18 there has been no problem.

[Steve Crook]

name='Mr Dean']I've bought several US DVDs through Amazon.com. The value is usually shown on the label and when I foolishly bought two together costing more than £18 I was charged an extra £8, I think. When I've ordered single DVDs valued at less than £18 there has been no problem.

I've quite often had things sent from the States (or elsewhere) when the value on the customs declaration is over the limit. But they don't always charge you. Sometimes they pass them through without inspecting them. The main part of the charge is a charge for inspecting the item. All that hard work in opening the parcel



Steve

[batman]

Perhaps we should start a parcel opening business and make loads of money ... after all I am sure we all have lots of experience of opening parcels, especially those containing films!



Bats .

[orpheum]

I get stuff from the states all the time.Only one has an item been opened by customs and i think i was charged duty one one occasion many years ago

[philips]

Only 18 Pounds? That's not very generous. It's much better in the other direction. We can import up to $900 (about 380 pounds) before an import duty is payable.

[marker]

name='philips']Only 18 Pounds? That's not very generous. It's much better in the other direction. We can import up to $900 (about 380 pounds) before an import duty is payable.

yes well we live under a money grabbing government

[ChristineCB]

name='batman']Perhaps we should start a parcel opening business...

Believe me, I've thought of that! I routinely buy boxes of DVDs and CDs from Play and AmazonCO.UK, hundreds of dollars at a time maybe 3 or 5 times a year, and I've never paid anything extra. In fact, I usually get incredible price-savings.



The notion of unfair suffering brings ideas of subterfuge to mind.

[Steve Crook]

name='tvden']yes well we live under a money grabbing government

Whichever is in power, they all like taxing us a lot



Steve

[smudge]

name='Steve Crook']I've quite often had things sent from the States (or elsewhere) when the value on the customs declaration is over the limit. But they don't always charge you. Sometimes they pass them through without inspecting them. The main part of the charge is a charge for inspecting the item. All that hard work in opening the parcel



Steve

The opening charge and the duty charges are entirely separate things. The opening charge goes straight to the Post Office ; this went up earlier this year by a measly 100% to the £8 mentioned.



So much gets through 'duty free' because the clearance depots are swamped. Technically, however, you are required to make a declaration of duty if you receive a parcel without being charged.



Once they realise that the tax revenues from smoking are diminishing post-ban, they'll be coming round to the forum members with search warrants....



There is talk of the £18 baseline being REDUCED.



Smudge

[marker]

name='smudge']The opening charge and the duty charges are entirely separate things. The opening charge goes straight to the Post Office ; this went up earlier this year by a measly 100% to the £8 mentioned.



So much gets through 'duty free' because the clearance depots are swamped. Technically, however, you are required to make a declaration of duty if you receive a parcel without being charged.



Once they realise that the tax revenues from smoking are diminishing post-ban, they'll be coming round to the forum members with search warrants....



There is talk of the £18 baseline being REDUCED.



Smudge

REDUCED what a damed cheek its bad enough now!!! what a damed country this is, it seems we must not have anything

[Chris B]

Hi,

yes I am afraid that what has been said previously is correct, most times I order goods from the states and make sure that it is below the measly £18 limit, but occassionally you have to buy a box set and I have had some of them clobbered, the latest casualty was a box set of Musicals value $40, this incurred a charge of £11.56 made up of a post office handling charge, V.A.T. and a customs charge, as usual every body wants to dip in your pocket with some trumped up excuse.

All the best ChrisB

[JamesM]

I ewither keep the order under £18 or take it well over (about £90) so that the additional costs are nearly outweighed by savings on postage.

[orpheum]

Having made my post above i came home and found that i had a note from the Post Office asking me to cough up £13.15 for customs charges.I had ordered 5 quota quickies from a firm in the States.When i went to collect them i found that Customs had charged £5.15 in VAt and the rest was Post Office handling charges!Apparently this has risen from £4 to £8 in the last couple of months.Little wonder that they are in such dire striats with those sort of charges!

[marker]

name='orpheum']Having made my post above i came home and found that i had a note from the Post Office asking me to cough up £13.15 for customs charges.I had ordered 5 quota quickies from a firm in the States.When i went to collect them i found that Customs had charged £5.15 in VAt and the rest was Post Office handling charges!Apparently this has risen from £4 to £8 in the last couple of months.Little wonder that they are in such dire striats with those sort of charges!

Hi dont tempt me to get on my hate wagon about the Post Office/ Govenment I have just spent six months trying to stop them shoving un addressed tat through my letterbox, after filling in the forms ect they kept on doing it, in the end I wrote to them advising them that I would take them to court for littering my property !!! this soon produced some action and a letter of apology and at last it has stopped, but only for two years after that you have to start all over again

[Steve Crook]

name='tvden']Hi dont tempt me to get on my hate wagon about the Post Office/ Govenment I have just spent six months trying to stop them shoving un addressed tat through my letterbox, after filling in the forms ect they kept on doing it, in the end I wrote to them advising them that I would take them to court for littering my property !!! this soon produced some action and a letter of apology and at last it has stopped, but only for two years after that you have to start all over again

Have you signed up the the Mailing Preference Service? I found it has cut the junk mail quite a lot.



Although not as much as the Telephone Preference Service has stopped unwanted telephone calls. If anyone does phone me trying to sell me something I just ask if they use the TPS system. If they don't then they're a shady company and I wouldn't want to deal with them. If they say they do use it then I tell them that I'm on the list of people they shouldn't call and that by calling me they've just cost their company a £100 fine - which the company will probably take out of their commission. Not true, but it scares the shit out of them



Steve

[Fellwanderer]

name='Steve Crook']Have you signed up the the Mailing Preference Service? I found it has cut the junk mail quite a lot.



Although not as much as the Telephone Preference Service has stopped unwanted telephone calls. If anyone does phone me trying to sell me something I just ask if they use the TPS system. If they don't then they're a shady company and I wouldn't want to deal with them. If they say they do use it then I tell them that I'm on the list of people they shouldn't call and that by calling me they've just cost their company a £100 fine - which the company will probably take out of their commission. Not true, but it scares the shit out of them



Steve

Indeed - both very useful. Also helps to go x-dir. I'm getting a new number next week which will only be given to 5 people - be interesting to see if it ever gets anything unsolicited.



Almost the only problem we have with junk mail is that which is simply addressed to "The Occupier" - apparently, that escapes the MPS guidelines.

[marker]

name='Fellwanderer']Indeed - both very useful. Also helps to go x-dir. I'm getting a new number next week which will only be given to 5 people - be interesting to see if it ever gets anything unsolicited.



Almost the only problem we have with junk mail is that which is simply addressed to "The Occupier" - apparently, that escapes the MPS guidelines.

I am signed up to everything and also ex directory but they devils still try, I had an occupier letter this morning, I mark them Return to Sender and they go back in the post box, trouble is if they try to get in touch by whatever means from abroad our rules dont apply

[Wolfgang]

Has anyone had those calls from Las Vegas that go on for about five minutes and you cannot hang up? You put phone down and then pick it up again and they are still talking. I think what if I need to make emergency phone call, how do I terminate their call?