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| Ted | | Chaac |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 14/06/2010 | | Posts | : | 551 | | Location | : | March, Cambs, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 13 Apr 2011 - 17:33 Post title : Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 | | | Thanks FastEddy! I did anticipate the VAT charge of £4 but not the £8.55 additional postage. I'll ring the number provided tomorrow but I don't expect much joy from the anticipated official dickhead (spellchecker wants to change this to decked - I'll go with that)
Thanks again Eddy, looks great!
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| narsisco_lopez | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 09/09/2010 | | Posts | : | 2,765 | | Location | : | Golden (Showers!), Colorado, United States |
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| | Posted : 13 Apr 2011 - 18:07 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Ted) | | |
Ted wrote:
Thanks FastEddy! I did anticipate the VAT charge of £4 but not the £8.55 additional postage. I'll ring the number provided tomorrow but I don't expect much joy from the anticipated official dickhead (spellchecker wants to change this to decked - I'll go with that)
Thanks again Eddy, looks great! |
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Ask the "anticipated official dickhead" if he'd like to borrow the "butt plug" portion of your new key holder. 
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| fasteddy | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 963 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 16 Apr 2011 - 00:55 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Ted) | | | Ted,
??????Additional postage? What was that about? You should not have had to pay for anything extra on your end (except VAT).
eddy
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| zolti | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 23/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,127 | | Location | : | newcastle , United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 16 Apr 2011 - 05:52 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: fasteddy) | | |
fasteddy wrote:
Ted,
??????Additional postage? What was that about? You should not have had to pay for anything extra on your end (except VAT).
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i had to pay an additional £8 too, they called it a "handling fee" i expected to pay the import duty ( on £100 this was £18) but not what id consider additional postage. apparently this would apply to any item any price they said.
this kinda rules out other buying small items like the key fob from you as seperate items.
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| fasteddy | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 963 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 16 Apr 2011 - 18:48 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: zolti) | | | I had a fellow in Sweden report back to me the amount he paid in VAT was crazy, figured out to 29% of the sale, he I was shocked, in that amount was the handling fee for them to pick up the mail and throw it in to the box, call it what you want but that is crazy. Tax is still tax no matter what you label it. Guess it is easier to say the TAX is ONLY 16% and the extra is a handling fee doesn't sound as bad as 29%!
We will soon look back in this country and say, remember when...
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| Fordster | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2009 | | Posts | : | 365 | | Location | : | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| | Posted : 16 Apr 2011 - 19:29 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: fasteddy) | | | The things I get from the US I don't have to pay anything unless it's shipped by UPS. (They charge exorbitant "brokerage fees", I won't use UPS, ever). I think if it's over a certain dollar value and made outside North American I would have to pay GST and duty. But the fees some of these guys are paying are unbelievable. It's not just crazy, it's robbery and it seems to be happening more and more and we're all held hostage. Governments should be encouraging trade, not trying to kill it. And it IS happening here too... raising taxes is political suicide so they get around by charging more and more "fees". For everything.
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| feduke | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 11/08/2009 | | Posts | : | 2,441 | | Location | : | Daytona Beach, Florida, United States |
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| | Posted : 17 Apr 2011 - 13:09 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Fordster) | | |
Their first priority is revenue from any source they can think of. Second, they're trying to encourage you to buy domestic products rather than imports.
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| Fordster | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2009 | | Posts | : | 365 | | Location | : | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| | Posted : 17 Apr 2011 - 15:29 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: feduke) | | | Yea I get that. But we don't HAVE domestic products. Except oil.. which they are also trying to tax into extinction!
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| SpookyClown | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 11/09/2010 | | Posts | : | 34 | | Location | : | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 17 Apr 2011 - 20:50 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Fordster) | | | I had to pay nearly £90 V.A.T. before my slimbags were delivered
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| zolti | | Thor | | | | Reg. Date | : | 23/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,127 | | Location | : | newcastle , United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 17 Apr 2011 - 20:55 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: SpookyClown) | | |
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I had to pay nearly £90 V.A.T. before my slimbags were delivered |
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thats a fiver short of the k21 panniers! inc vat and delivery 
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| sprint5t | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 07/02/2011 | | Posts | : | 355 | | Location | : | Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 21 Jun 2011 - 11:33 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: zolti) | | | I've just ordered very same from Mr Eddy's Emporium.... I won't be in when it is delivered does that mean Mrs Sprint5t will have to have a wedge of cash ready for who ever the delivery person is ?
I've regularly ordered music CDs from the US (some quite large orders) and paid nothing more than the price to the supplier !
Is the parcel delivery company an official collecter of VAT revenue ?
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| mat1600 | | Thunderbird | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 8,596 | | Location | : | Bridlington, Democratic Independant State of Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 21 Jun 2011 - 11:46 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: sprint5t) | | |
sprint5t wrote:
I've just ordered very same from Mr Eddy's Emporium.... I won't be in when it is delivered does that mean Mrs Sprint5t will have to have a wedge of cash ready for who ever the delivery person is ?
I've regularly ordered music CDs from the US (some quite large orders) and paid nothing more than the price to the supplier !
Is the parcel delivery company an official collecter of VAT revenue ?
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you will get a small piece of paper syaing to collect the goods at the post office where they extract extra tax out of you.
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| Thatch | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Jun 2011 - 11:48 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: mat1600) | | |
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you will get a small piece of paper syaing to collect the goods at the post office where they extract extra tax out of you. |
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It's those personal touches that make it so nice
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| mat1600 | | Thunderbird | | | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 8,596 | | Location | : | Bridlington, Democratic Independant State of Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 21 Jun 2011 - 11:51 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Thatch) | | |
Thatch wrote:
mat1600 wrote:
you will get a small piece of paper syaing to collect the goods at the post office where they extract extra tax out of you. |
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It's those personal touches that make it so nice |
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| DizzE | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 12/07/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,141 | | Location | : | Sunnyvale, CA, United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Jun 2011 - 14:00 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: fasteddy) | | | fasteddy wrote:
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So true, eddy! Alain said in another thread that the French used to feel sorry for us and our encroached upon
freedoms. Now, they just have to look out the window.
How about the Fair Tax, as is now called, Flat Tax circa Steve Forbes? Tax on consumption only!
Yeah, with loopholes to drive trainloads of loopholes through. In America each political Dollar counts as a vote.
You thnik big oil is BAD? Check the big sugar cane subsidized monopoly and dozens of mid-level scamery,
corn-fuel, MTBE, on and on. Never mind....
A flat tax would lead to VAT and 90% Income Tax, I think, in the USA. The world has gotten so complicated
and interlock that I worry about the house of cards effect. I read recently that the loan to
value ratio of the entire world is 90%.
Who loaned us that money? Space Aliens? No, in attempt to insure all risk we've ended up loaning all that money
to ourselves, global humanity. So, who will pay back and who will collect? That's the future.
The US pays China a sum worth 2 Joint Strike Fighters....a week, in debt service.
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| fasteddy | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 963 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Jun 2011 - 15:35 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: DizzE) | | | If the government would roll to a flat tax of 10% no questions asked, it would be great...I think. But not in addition to VAT. Problem is, historically, when it's not your money or it does not come directly out of your pocket (eg credit card vs savings) no one seems to control the spending, especially politician!
My health insurance (why I still work as a full time Flight Paramedic on weekends) went from a standard policy where I would get billed for 20% that was not covered to a health savings plan which I am responsible for the first $4600 out of pocket ($2300 for me $2300 for my wife in addition to the $450 a month premium) Guess what? I am more careful about what I use and how I use it when it comes directly from my own pocket rather than when it was all tied to an insurance card. The point is not about health care...a rant on it's own but about the relationship between a piece of plastic ( or political budgets) and hard currency. When you have no real connection to the currency it is easy to spend beyond what you can have. Easy squeezy!
Point is the governments(s) have little connection to the money they spend. Please allow me to spend your money for you! It's far easier than when I spend my own!
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| lioneloxford | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 01/04/2011 | | Posts | : | 231 | | Location | : | Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 25 Jun 2011 - 09:40 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: fasteddy) | | | Anyone tried this import duty calculator.
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What are the limits for customs duty and import VAT?
Commercial consignments of £18 or less are free from customs duty and import VAT (please note: With effect from 1 November 2011 the £18 threshold will be reduced to £15 - see 2.4 below). For example, goods purchased over the internet with an intrinsic value not exceeding £18, will not be charged any duty or VAT but this does not include alcohol, tobacco products, perfume or toilet waters. See paragraph 2.6, 2.7 and section 3.
If you are sent a gift with a value of £40 or less, and which complies with the rules shown in paragraph 2.5, it will be free from customs duty and import VAT, but this does not include alcohol, tobacco, perfumes and toilet waters.
Customs duty becomes payable if the value of the goods is over £135 but duty is waived if the amount of duty calculated is less than £9
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| Steve | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 24/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 480 | | Location | : | Chesham, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 26 Jun 2011 - 21:41 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: lioneloxford) | | | I had the same thing with the easy brackets. They added import duty which I expected but also around £8.00 as a handling charge. On the PO web site it explains; The handling charge is to pay the post office to do the customs job i.e. open the parcel to check it's what it says it is, collect the import duty for customs and rewrap the parcel so they can deliver it to you.
I suppose if you had to pay customs to do this it would probably cost more.
I saw the other stuff Lionel quoted, the information was in that site somewhere.
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| yoaitch | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 19/04/2011 | | Posts | : | 2 | | Location | : | United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 30 Jun 2011 - 20:57 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Ted) | | | I just received my butt plug/key fob from FastEddy £26.40 and put through letterbox was i just lucky.
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| Steve | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 480 | | Location | : | Chesham, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 30 Jun 2011 - 22:13 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: yoaitch) | | |
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I just received my butt plug/key fob from FastEddy £26.40 and put through letterbox was i just lucky. |
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Now it's in writing they'll be after you. It's time for stringent measures so they'll be dredging the Web for confessions like this. 
Your in for it now
Maybe it's just bigger parcels they check more often or something. When I was chasing my parcel (with the easy brackets in it) to find out where it was, some bloke in the UK post office said in passing "they don't check them all", so maybe you were lucky. 
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| sprint5t | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 07/02/2011 | | Posts | : | 355 | | Location | : | Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 11 Jul 2011 - 12:07 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: Ted) | | |
Ted wrote:
Thanks FastEddy! I did anticipate the VAT charge of £4 but not the £8.55 additional postage. I'll ring the number provided tomorrow but I don't expect much joy from the anticipated official dickhead (spellchecker wants to change this to decked - I'll go with that)
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Same here.... additional £12.70
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| | Posted : 11 Jul 2011 - 15:55 Post title : Re: Expedient Edward's Butt Plug has arrived with Brit surcharge of £12.55 (Re: lioneloxford) | | |
lioneloxford wrote:
Anyone tried this import duty calculator.
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Just tried it - Aaaargh!  Too painful if the item being shipped isn't on their list.
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