UK Customs Charges

Nosdoh said:
It makes buying things from abroad pointless!! Frustrated moan over
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I agree. And it's difficult to figure in the cost of the customs fees, a lot of the carriers seem to be a law to themselves and seemingly charge what they want for customs fees/handling fees.

There's a lot of shaving stuff that's only available in the US, that I would like to try, and while I can understand international shipping isn't going to be cheap, I think it should be a simply thing of, paying the tax rate from the Country you are ordering from, cost of item/s, shipping, and that's all.
 
Talster said:
I agree. And it's difficult to figure in the cost of the customs fees, a lot of the carriers seem to be a law to themselves and seemingly charge what they want for customs fees/handling fees.

There's a lot of shaving stuff that's only available in the US, that I would like to try, and while I can understand international shipping isn't going to be cheap, I think it should be a simply thing of, paying the tax rate from the Country you are ordering from, cost of item/s, shipping, and that's all.
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If you're talking about soap, Maggard do economy shipping to the UK for $4ish and if the total cost comes in at under £15 HMRC leave it alone.
 
Some of the Chinese and Japan sellers are great guys, signing stuff off well below it's market value.

I just received a razor worth about £100. Declared as "A gift, for personal use, worth less than £39".

I'm not going to disclose on here whether it was caught out at customs... I didn't ask him to do it either! (Honestly!)
 
Dansco said:
And my Maseto brush got through a few weeks ago. Cost £46 delivered.
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I've not seen any Maseto get stung for it personally. Same goes for YaQi brushes - I noted on my YaQi brush that it was listed as 'item value = 1' which (a) means nothing and (b) is difficult to place a value on.
 
Without being asked both my last shipments from Japan and the USA came as being under £15.00. My £145.00 Feather injector was marked as £13.00, whilst my CJB as $5.00 and a gift :).
 
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