Import/Customs/Duty/Postage/Mailing Chat thread

[Rodbull]

Not happy at all had something coming from new Zealand by EMS a metal slip and viva metal box paid £97 for both plus I paid the postage around £25.

Got shipped on the 21st and arrived in the UK 23rd been awaiting clearance in customs since then nothing as changed even worse the seller marked the value but sent as a gift,am I going to get stung BIG TIME plus do they open the parcels and get there greasy disgusting MITTS ON THEM I FEAR THE WORSE

New pricing Wallchart can be seen here.

 

[dfoles]

US Customs Hold

So I shipped a Friday the 13th complete series metal tin to a member in Australia. Well on the tracking info now, it shows that it's "being held in US Customs for further inspection"

How long should it sit there, and what's happening to it?

 

[Horhay]

Well no real timeframe, it's really until they go through it and release it. Pretty much you just need to wait.

 

[digitalbabe]

Yep, no time frame....

 

[Ricker]

It took one of mine 3 weeks before it got released

 

[dfoles]

Oh well, I'll just have to let the member know.
I packaged it well... Hopefully they don't destroy it.

 

[wjasoncul]

Maybe it met up with our shells!

 

[dfoles]

Maybe it met up with our shells!

Haha! Probably. The gov'ment's tryin to stop me from importing and export steelbooks!

But seriously, wtf. Where are our steelshells?

 

[dfoles]

Well that wasn't too bad, already out of customs and processed through USPS ISC.

I'd love to know what the hold up was

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

So I shipped a Friday the 13th complete series metal tin to a member in Australia. Well on the tracking info now, it shows that it's "being held in US Customs for further inspection"

How long should it sit there, and what's happening to it?

They're probably trying to watch them all before 'releasing it', duh!

 

[dfoles]

US Customs Hold

They're probably trying to watch them all before 'releasing it', duh!

Haha, it was all 12 movies and a 13th bonus disc. Must've has a movie marathon! :lol:

 

[digitalbabe]

Threads merged & stickied.

 

[anemake]

I'm new here and I'm not sure how "groups buy" works and what is this of a "hub"?

Please, can somebody explain me or tell me where to find info?

Thanks!

 

[Jungwol]

i ordered 1 tangled steelbook from kd. fortunately it shipped all right

 

[lgans316]

UK importers,

Be careful while importing from Amazon.ca.

I ordered an item worth C$24.99 which translates to 13.5 GBP as per exchange rates posted in HMRC website.

UPS (shipping carrier) wants me to pay 15.28 to deliver the item as amazon invoice listed total amount including shipping instead of declaring item total and shipping/handling separately.

Contacted Amazon about the same and awaiting their reply.

 

[cooey]

I was always under the impression that customs charges can only be applied to the product price not including any shipping charges?

 

[jammyone]

I was always under the impression that customs charges can only be applied to the product price not including any shipping charges?

That's not quite right

If the item costs £15.00 or less (not including the P&P) then it's is customs free, if it's over £15.00 you pay 20% VAT on the total cost of the item cost plus the cost of the P&P

Then you almost certainly got the courier/Royal Mail ransom (admin) fee, the Royal Mail current fee is £8.00, the courier fees vary and can be a lot more.

 

[lgans316]

jammyone is correct.

Full value is taken into account only when the item value exceeds 15 GBP.

In my case, item value is C $24.99 = 13.5 GBP but Amazon declared just one figure in the invoice which led to customs calculating tax for the full amount.

 

[dagreaser]

I ordered an item worth C$24.99 which translates to 13.5 GBP as per exchange rates posted in HMRC website.

UPS (shipping carrier) wants me to pay 15.28 to deliver the item as amazon invoice listed total amount including shipping instead of declaring item total and shipping/handling separately.

Contacted Amazon about the same and awaiting their reply.

That doesn't seem fair at all, or the right way way of 'declaring' it for customs. I hope for your sake they sort something out for you. I'd be pretty annoyed if I was in your shoes.

Great thread though, very quickly and easily managed to find out about importing limits and how much it would cost me overall

 

[Travis Bickle]

I'm just waiting for the card to come through the door for Leon Kimchi. I paid for EMS Shipping so it came to just over £35 so 20% is roughly £7 + £8 Royal Mail fees so I'm possibly looking at a £15.00 charge. So Leon has cost me roughly £50.00 :-(

 

[dagreaser]

I'm just waiting for the card to come through the door for Leon Kimchi. I paid for EMS Shipping so it came to just over £35 so 20% is roughly £7 + £8 Royal Mail fees so I'm possibly looking at a £15.00 charge. So Leon has cost me roughly £50.00 :-(

I thought kimchi will put what you want them to on the customs form? Excuse me if I'm wrong on that though - would be interested to know either way.