On 27 June 2013 12:30, Robert Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > It actually even easier than ever now. Ebay.com do a global postage programme > http://pages.ebay.co.uk/shipping/globalshipping/buyer-tnc.html#paymentsplit > > The seller ships it to a US processing center (an item I just won went to > Kentucky) and they preprocess the customs. I prepaid which saves the £7.5 > "collection charge" that the UK postoffice levies on the receipient to > collect the customs fees. OK sometimes an item might miss customs in the UK > but you can't count on it. > > Robert G8RPI.
I've used that, and would rather not in future. I had an item sent with insufficient carriage charges, so I had to pay quite a bit to actually get it. I've never experienced such an issue when items have come direct, but when they come via that new eBay service, it cost me quite a bit. The only other time I paid duty in advance was when buying a VNA from Agilent. I was a bit suspicious of that, with the seller wanting the money for the duty up front, but since I knew I was dealing with Agilent, and they assured me it was OK, I trusted it. There were no issues there. The Chinese sellers are helpful. It seems nearly anything shipped from China has a nominal value, so I never pay much duty. Also carriage costs from there are very low. I see someone on eBay the other day selling a PCB with a syntesizer on it. The cost was less than £5 including carriage!!! I don't know how they do it. Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
