Post-Brexit delivery charges

[cloughie]

Re my earlier sentence "How often do we bother to check what IC chips and software it has inside it, or what industrial machine tools and automated production lines were used to create it?" of course the US did concern itself about exports to other countries, and took steps to ensure that computers and other equipment wasn't going go eastern bloc countries - either directly or indirectly - because of the chips that some machines contained.

There was also concern about used deep friers!

[oddoneout]

There was also concern about used deep friers!

There are times when I think a decent potato chip would be more use than what in have in my telephone(landline) - something made for the UK market containing a Chinese chip set up for the USA market, and without the option to over-ride factory settings.

[Dave2002]

If one looks for items on eBay, is it now more important to check where they might come from? For example for potential CD purchases - and if bidding, also keep the final bid below a well defined threshold.

Given a choice (say) between two offers, one from the UK and one from Germany, any price benefits from the EU supplied one might fade away 'drastically'!

[oddoneout]

If one looks for items on eBay, is it now more important to check where they might come from? For example for potential CD purchases - and if bidding, also keep the final bid below a well defined threshold.

Given a choice (say) between two offers, one from the UK and one from Germany, any price benefits from the EU supplied one might fade away 'drastically'!

Possibly more important to see what 'supplementary' charges may be applied? Bit like those cheap flights, free plants, type offers, and 'super prizes' where by the time all the additional items have been added on the cost is the same as an 'ordinary' version - and likely of lesser quality and with more post-receipt consumer issues.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I'm not buying anything worth more than £15 from the EU currently - not without investigation beforehand. Not by any means apparent where items are shipped from. Some businesses on Amazon marketplace have "GB" in their name but don't state their address and ship from the EU as a lot of us probably know.

So the EU is added to Japan, US - anywhere outside the UK - on my list or sources to be carefully considered for the addition of VAT and the P Office handling charge etc.

Having said that, I'm sorely tempted to order some Jussi Bjorling CDs from the US which will ensnare me in the P Office import "handling" system......

[Dave2002]

There's more on the problems which transport operators are now facing - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...m-is-maxed-out

Seems this has now had an impact on exports to the EU.

[DracoM]

" Dear Boris, ........................."

[jayne lee wilson]

Email from US-based abruckner.com, today.....

"With all the talk about BREXIT in the news lately, one would have thought that we knew all the implications of this transition. But something has came up last month that directly impacts my dealing with any customers in the United Kingdom. Beginning on January 1st, all online retailers outside of the United Kingdom are required to charge a 20% VAT on all goods shipped to the U.K. Online sellers, from large companies like Amazon to retailers like me, must register with the U.K. tax authority, collect VAT and send those funds to the tax authority every three months. If items are shipped without the VAT payments, they will be, "delayed, returned or destroyed" by U.K. customs. For small operations like mine, my logical recourse is to offer some of my items through Ebay and let Ebay handle the VAT issues, but that will force me to raise my prices to U.K customers to cover the Ebay commission in addition to the VAT that all U.K. customers must pay. I wonder if the voters in the U.K. actually knew about these changes when they voted to leave the E.U. More to follow."


It never rains but it....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55796426

[crb11]

Email from US-based abruckner.com, today.....

"With all the talk about BREXIT in the news lately, one would have thought that we knew all the implications of this transition. But something has came up last month that directly impacts my dealing with any customers in the United Kingdom. Beginning on January 1st, all online retailers outside of the United Kingdom are required to charge a 20% VAT on all goods shipped to the U.K. Online sellers, from large companies like Amazon to retailers like me, must register with the U.K. tax authority, collect VAT and send those funds to the tax authority every three months. If items are shipped without the VAT payments, they will be, "delayed, returned or destroyed" by U.K. customs. For small operations like mine, my logical recourse is to offer some of my items through Ebay and let Ebay handle the VAT issues, but that will force me to raise my prices to U.K customers to cover the Ebay commission in addition to the VAT that all U.K. customers must pay. I wonder if the voters in the U.K. actually knew about these changes when they voted to leave the E.U. More to follow."


It never rains but it....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55796426

Ah, I thought that looked familiar! I have a very similar one in my inbox after alerting them to the fact my book hadn't arrived two weeks after departing the US.

[oddoneout]

Email from US-based abruckner.com, today.....

"With all the talk about BREXIT in the news lately, one would have thought that we knew all the implications of this transition. But something has came up last month that directly impacts my dealing with any customers in the United Kingdom. Beginning on January 1st, all online retailers outside of the United Kingdom are required to charge a 20% VAT on all goods shipped to the U.K. Online sellers, from large companies like Amazon to retailers like me, must register with the U.K. tax authority, collect VAT and send those funds to the tax authority every three months. If items are shipped without the VAT payments, they will be, "delayed, returned or destroyed" by U.K. customs. For small operations like mine, my logical recourse is to offer some of my items through Ebay and let Ebay handle the VAT issues, but that will force me to raise my prices to U.K customers to cover the Ebay commission in addition to the VAT that all U.K. customers must pay. I wonder if the voters in the U.K. actually knew about these changes when they voted to leave the E.U. More to follow."


It never rains but it....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55796426

The VAT issue came up in an article I read recently, saying that the added hassle of being responsible for collecting VAT and remitting the dues for HMRC would make small businesses question whether to continue trading with the UK, not least because the level of support for administering it is unlikely to be satisfactory, on top of all the other administrative load facing so many of them.

[johnb]

Email from US-based abruckner.com, today.....

"With all the talk about BREXIT in the news lately, one would have thought that we knew all the implications of this transition. But something has came up last month that directly impacts my dealing with any customers in the United Kingdom. Beginning on January 1st, all online retailers outside of the United Kingdom are required to charge a 20% VAT on all goods shipped to the U.K. Online sellers, from large companies like Amazon to retailers like me, must register with the U.K. tax authority, collect VAT and send those funds to the tax authority every three months. If items are shipped without the VAT payments, they will be, "delayed, returned or destroyed" by U.K. customs. For small operations like mine, my logical recourse is to offer some of my items through Ebay and let Ebay handle the VAT issues, but that will force me to raise my prices to U.K customers to cover the Ebay commission in addition to the VAT that all U.K. customers must pay. I wonder if the voters in the U.K. actually knew about these changes when they voted to leave the E.U. More to follow."

I suspect that these changes are not a consequence of Brexit per se but are due to the Treasury taking the opportunity (of Brexit) to tighten VAT collection from imports.

[Roslynmuse]

Good to hear - I think Momox are a well run outfit!

I ordered two items together from Momox a couple of weeks ago. I had a dispatch notification for them both, but only one arrived; the more expensive (and rather rare) box didn't. Email chase-up yesterday, with the reply that "Due to reasons unknown the item/the items you ordered could not be delivered and has been returned to us before reaching its destination. We are sorry that because of technical reasons we cannot send it again." Is this another Brexit side-effect? I would have expected an email from them before my chase-up, and there's no sign of a refund yet.

[Petrushka]

I'm awaiting delivery of a book from Better World Books Marketplace West via Amazon. They are based in Indiana and I ordered it on January 5 with an expected delivery date of February 1.

The tracking information reads: 'We’re very sorry your delivery is late. We apologise for the inconvenience'.

Looks ominous.

[Sir Velo]

Even more reason for giving up on purchasing the physical media. Viva Qobuz!

[Bryn]

Even more reason for giving up on purchasing the physical media. Viva Qobuz!

Surely "Vive QOBUZ!", though I happen to now subscribe to the UK manifestation.