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Post by The Doctor on Feb 6, 2011 21:13:46 GMT
Wait, wait, how can they set their *own* exchange rate?  !! Is that legal? -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Feb 6, 2011 21:20:06 GMT
Wait, wait, how can they set their *own* exchange rate? !! Is that legal? -Ralph They are the government so....pretty much, yeah. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 6, 2011 21:26:46 GMT
I feel the need to see details of their calculations
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 6, 2011 21:28:03 GMT
How dare we import items we cannot buy in this country!!!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 6, 2011 21:34:00 GMT
Didn't say that it was right..... just that it was legal.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 6, 2011 21:34:45 GMT
I'd be absolutely shocked if you asked the Farce to give you their calculations and they duly complied.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 6, 2011 21:42:54 GMT
Goto www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htmSearch for Notice 143 Click on A guide for international post users 3.1 How are import charges calculated?
Value Added Tax (VAT) - Import VAT is charged at the same rate that applies to similar goods sold in the UK and applies to commercial goods over £18 in value, and on gifts that are over £40 in value. The value of the goods for import VAT is based on the:
* basic value of goods, plus
* postage, packing and insurance, plus
* any import (Customs or Excise) duties charged. You get CUTA'd on the postage? ? ? ? That's a new one on me! |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 6, 2011 21:47:43 GMT
Any way they can get money out of us.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 7, 2011 7:27:50 GMT
Wait, wait, how can they set their *own* exchange rate? !! Is that legal? Everyone can set their own exchange rate. Go to any two places to change your money into another currency, and the rates will be different. It's just competition / market forces that normally keep them fairly similar to one another. (And the rate in one direction is always different from the rate in the other direction, in order that the person doing the conversion always makes a profit by the transaction.) Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 7, 2011 8:01:45 GMT
Ah but exchange rates are generally all around a similar ammount. I suspect the postage thing, which I didn't know about, has really screwed the calculations.
Postage was an extra $60.74, bringing the total to 287.67
So $Value = 287.67
Exchange Rate 1.62
£ Value 177.58
* 20% = 35.516
working the value backwards they've used an exchange rate of 1.81
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 7, 2011 15:01:47 GMT
Todya I finally possess the Morcock DW Book. Lost in the post, Play dispatched a replacement copy.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 12, 2011 15:04:02 GMT
Item posted 1st class over 2 and a half weeks ago never arrived and enquiries reveal it is probably lost. It would seem that even without SNOW CHAOS! or Christmas bollocks that my local mail is well and truly fucked and/or someone has light fingers.
This was a hard to get hold of out of production expensive MOTU figure so not bloody happy!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 15, 2011 18:28:28 GMT
Allegedly, it has now turned up. In Livington Post Office's back room. I live nowhere near Livingston. The saga continues.
*bangs head off wall*
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2011 18:51:21 GMT
Thanks to the seller putting in a complaint and paying to re-post the item out of their own pocket, at last the Beast Man is here!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2011 19:45:58 GMT
What a quality seller.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2011 11:24:58 GMT
Dear Royal Mail: you put my mail through the letterbox, you do not stick it behind the door entry buzzer the other side of the external door to the close you fucking morons.
Still at least you've stopped delivering my bank statements to the middle of the street outside.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 4, 2011 11:35:36 GMT
What a shower of assholes.
Is there another complaint in the offing?
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2011 11:40:41 GMT
Probably.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2011 15:47:19 GMT
uh oh: EE96 9647 023U S * Shipment Accepted, March 03, 2011, 9:50 am, SOMERSET, WI 54025
* Arrival
* International Dispatch, March 04, 2011, 4:07 pm, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
* Electronic Shipping Info Received, March 04, 2011
* Arrived Abroad, March 06, 2011, 7:38 pm, GREAT BRITAIN
* Into Foreign Customs, March 06, 2011, 7:41 pm, GREAT BRITAIN
* Into Foreign Customs, March 06, 2011, 7:42 pm, GREAT BRITAIN Will Philip be making the trip to CUTA city? |
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Post by blueshift on Mar 7, 2011 15:47:52 GMT
What is in EE96 9647 023U S?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2011 16:16:03 GMT
RTS Lugnut
PCC Undertow with Waterlog
PCC Salvage with Bombburst
PCC Over Run (Dragstrip!) with Stunticons
$85
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Post by blueshift on Mar 7, 2011 16:35:45 GMT
Ooooh didn't realise those PCC were out!
Saying that I hear BBTS has Thundercracker already, which is a bit 'whoa'.
Any reason you've opted for RTS Lugnut over United? I hear they are pretty different.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2011 16:41:46 GMT
I've not opted for RTS over United :-) I've had my RTS one for a while.
BBTS aren't the only people with Thundercracker and Wheeljack: I've just been told that I should have my Wheeljack later this week.
I believe these are the last PCC :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2011 18:33:42 GMT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH ROYAL MAIL!!!! FUCKERS!!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2011 18:42:24 GMT
What now?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2011 18:58:31 GMT
An inability to place things through a letterbox without destroying them.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 9, 2011 9:32:10 GMT
uh oh: EE96 9647 023U S * Shipment Accepted, March 03, 2011, 9:50 am, SOMERSET, WI 54025
* Arrival
* International Dispatch, March 04, 2011, 4:07 pm, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
* Electronic Shipping Info Received, March 04, 2011
* Arrived Abroad, March 06, 2011, 7:38 pm, GREAT BRITAIN
* Into Foreign Customs, March 06, 2011, 7:41 pm, GREAT BRITAIN
* Into Foreign Customs, March 06, 2011, 7:42 pm, GREAT BRITAIN Will Philip be making the trip to CUTA city? Progress * Out of Foreign Customs, March 09, 2011, 7:30 am, GREAT BRITAIN That looks good. <Goes to Parcelfarce.com> 09-03-2011 07:30 National Hub Received and processed
09-03-2011 00:48 International Hub Received from Customs - charges to be paid
06-03-2011 19:41 International Hub Awaiting Customs clearance
06-03-2011 19:38 International Hub Received in destination country
04-03-2011 20:34 Delivery Agent - UNITED STATES AMERICA Collected from customer
04-03-2011 16:04 Delivery Agent - CHICAGO Forwarded for export but that less so.... |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 9, 2011 11:16:53 GMT
Prepare the lubcricant.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 9, 2011 12:03:48 GMT
aye. Am guessing £18
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Post by Hero on Mar 9, 2011 15:39:05 GMT
In the £20 region?
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!! Is that legal?
