Ordering electronics from The East post-brexit / vat shenanigans
Mark Robson
Stephen Rodway
charged me VAT and took care of all the paperwork, I wasn't asked for
any additional details. Packaged arrived in about a week and had clearly
been opened by customs en-route but no problems.
Steve
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Alex Gibson
Great to track this Mark. I for one would be keen to see anyone’s recent experiences of other services, good and bad, added to this thread!
I’ve been pretty reticent to order outside UK recently but I recently bought an item from Biqu (BigTreeTech) via eBay for about £11 and this is both VERY slow and showing no sign of proper customs handling so it’s a real gamble…
Will update on the success or otherwise of this… hope it’s OK as I want to test one and if successful buy another 10, which will be up to £100 – too much to lose, but below £135…
Cheers,
Alex Gibson
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Alex Gibson
Forgot to say, ebay details claim the price I paid included VAT. So I should be OK – the question is how does the seller mark this to get it through Customs…
Alex Gibson
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Great to track this Mark. I for one would be keen to see anyone’s recent experiences of other services, good and bad, added to this thread!
I’ve been pretty reticent to order outside UK recently but I recently bought an item from Biqu (BigTreeTech) via eBay for about £11 and this is both VERY slow and showing no sign of proper customs handling so it’s a real gamble…
Will update on the success or otherwise of this… hope it’s OK as I want to test one and if successful buy another 10, which will be up to £100 – too much to lose, but below £135…
Cheers,
Alex Gibson
+44 7813 810 765 @alexgibson3d 37 Royal Avenue, Reading RG31 4UR
admg consulting
edumaker limited
· Project management
· Operations & Process improvement
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Gavin
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Gavin
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Alex Gibson
Can positively confirm it’s a scam…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/royal-mail-scam-fraud-text-message-b1815723.html
Do report the number!
Alex Gibson
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Since posting I have received this SMS claiming that Royal Mail are awaiting payment of £2.99. I reckon this is a scam as (a) I have no packages in the postal system awaiting delivery, (b) pretty sure Royal Mail would not use a standard mobile phone number to send the message, (c) if they were to contact me, they would sneak up to my door and silently post a grey piece of card through the letterbox, (d) there is no way they would charge as little as £2.99 to release a parcel
Gavin
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Nigel Worsley
Alex Gibson
Hi Nigle
Did the BangGood parcel show clear signs of correctly displayed VAT payment? Or do you think it just slipped through? I guess both of those could be true…?
Cheers,
Alex Gibson
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From: 'Nigel Worsley' via rLab / Reading's Hackspace [mailto:reading-...@googlegroups.com]
Sent: 14 March 2021 20:47
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The situation seems to be changing, I had an order from Banggood arrive in the middle of February with no VAT issues but got an email on Friday about an overdue order that said " We are sorry to inform you that your order would be delayed for 15 days due to customs clearance delay (the backlog of customs parcels leads to a long time for customs clearance)".
Nigle
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Nigel Worsley
Did the BangGood parcel show clear signs of correctly displayed VAT payment? Or do you think it just slipped through? I guess both of those could be true…?