Shipping/Customs charges. Aaaaarrrgh!

They may have left an invoice - it's happened to me before. :-(

Really... oh bugger. Well at least I've got the bike and its not sitting around in some warehouse while I find the time to go and pay the charges. I was always budgeting on having to pay £150 in duty but would be very happy to get away with it. Can't complain with a complete bike for £500 when the frame alone cost £300 here.

i got a bill to months after delivery, wrote back "return to sender." no longer at this address, last i heard.

Fingers crossed for u JDB

i got a bill to months after delivery, wrote back "return to sender." no longer at this address, last i heard.

Ha

I bought a Keyboard which got sent from the USA by DHL.

it arrived around 20hours after I pressed "order" and only took around 8 hours to get to the UK!

But anyway, about 3 weeks after I received it, I got a letter from DHL saying that I incurred customs charges of £20.

I couldnt be bothered to read how I was supposed to pay, so I just forgot about and havent heard anything from them many months later.

Im thinking DHL have some sort of customs evasion loophole.

Yeah i bought a pair of deep Vs from oz two years ago for my ex. I got charged 3 months later £38 from customs.

Yeah its because keirin blog mark all there stuff at the price they sell it for. My frame was really expensive so he could have marked it down. Tight bastard. : (

rene normally writes gift etc if you ask.

i got stung for my rims, but not for tyres. lottery i'm afraid.

i got a bill to months after delivery, wrote back "return to sender." no longer at this address, last i heard.

Sounds like its worth a try, and the best thing is I moved out of that house on the weekend so it would only be a partial lie. Good luck tracking me down Mr Customs A**hole.

Has any one bought a frame from njs-keirin blog spot???? I have just got an email from customs saying that its going to cost me £110 in custom charges. Is that right? it sounds insane.

Thanks

Em

That sux.

yeah it really does. And we said no more that £50 last nigth didn't we.

can ask to put prototype or even frame repair, which shouldn't get hit ;)

bugger gutted...i'll give you £125 for the lot?

x

Bicycles 15% duty + 17.5 % on the total.

Where did you find out that 15%?

Is there a list anywhere with the % to add on?

Customs charges always work out around 25% to 30% from personal experience. I have never ordered frames from US before though :/

Where did you find out that 15%?

Is there a list anywhere with the % to add on?

Quoting myself from an earlier thread where I did find something on a government website that said bikes were 15%. Looked for it earlier but with it being a government website you can never find the info you want.

Different carriers in this country have different methods of collecting the charges, some collect before, some after. When I got my frame from the States whoever was the UK carrier (I can't remember now) wouldn't deliver the bike without collecting first. Wankers. I would have tried the murtle method™ if they had!

parcelfarce have they own extra £15ish 'holding' fee :(

My Bridgestone got held up at customs and cost me £91 in duty/Parcelfarce fees.

Hard luck Em.

Customs charges always work out around 25% to 30% from personal experience. I have never ordered frames from US before though :/

It's from japan not the US. The guy at customs said its going up because of all the stuff coming in and out of china and japan for the olympics at the min. O WELL.

Write back to Parcelfarce and bill them for the time it's now taking you to pick up the bike/parts since they failed to deliver it.

I wonder if they'd pay it.

I bought a second hand laptop from a friend in the US, a totally private sale between friends and I got charged £90 from customs just because it was a computer! It could have been a present for all they knew? They just assumed and charged me anyway! Not a damn thing I could do about it. Ugh!

I bought a second hand laptop from a friend in the US, a totally private sale between friends and I got charged £90 from customs just because it was a computer! It could have been a present for all they knew? They just assumed and charged me anyway! Not a damn thing I could do about it. Ugh!

did your friend mark the parcel as 'gift'? that usually work sometime.

did your friend mark the parcel as 'gift'? that usually work sometime.

Gift = gift = no commercial value.

If it is lost in the postal system, any insurance will reflect what you have registered the item as being worth.

did your friend mark the parcel as 'gift'? that usually work sometime.

I honestly dont remember? I cant imagine him marking it anything else? It's long past now, just totally annoying. Live and learn I suppose.

Gift = gift = no commercial value.

If it is lost in the postal system, any insurance will reflect what you have registered the item as being worth.

Yeah that's worth remembering before you massively mark the price of anything down. Plus if you do a 'fake' invoice written up, make sure you get a real one as well if you're going to insure it later.

The "gift" loophole was closed earlier this year.

Don't forget, you pay vat on the shipping cost.

Item+duty+shipping then VAT on the total.