Customs charges? - London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

EM · 21st July 2008

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

|³|MA3K · 21st July 2008

Sometimes you get lucky.

TheBrick(Tommy) · 21st July 2008

Prob about right. Import tax plus vat on goods + tax + handling charge.

Object · 21st July 2008

Bastards.

31t®um · 21st July 2008

post rape

andyp · 21st July 2008

Probably the clunkiest web page ever but here it is as explained by HM Customs and Excise

Platini · 21st July 2008

I got an exhaust for my motorbike from Texas. That cost me GBP85 in duty. And that was four or five years ago... :-((

TheBrick(Tommy) · 21st July 2008

Bicycles 15% duty + 17.5 % on the total.

JDB · 21st July 2008

I have just got a Surly Crosscheck delivered from JensonUSA and it looks like it has snuck under customs radar, hurrah! FedEx delivery tracker shows it as being delivered to my house at 9:40AM this morning, and here I was expecting £150+ in taxes.

Bad luck EM it must have been a nice expensive frame to attract that much duty and VAT.

andyp · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by JDB

I have just got a Surly Crosscheck delivered from JensonUSA and it looks like it has snuck under customs radar, hurrah! FedEx delivery tracker shows it as being delivered to my house at 9:40AM this morning, and here I was expecting £150+ in taxes.

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

|³|MA3K · 21st July 2008

The system can be arbitrary for sure.
sometimes you get stung.

EM · 21st July 2008

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. : (

JDB · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by andyp

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.

31t®um · 21st July 2008

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

EM · 21st July 2008

Fingers crossed for u JDB

EM · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by 31t®um

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

Ha

deadly fanny pack · 21st July 2008

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.

dogsballs · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by EM

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.

JDB · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by 31t®um

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.

Build · 21st July 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by EM

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.

EM · 21st July 2008

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

dogsballs · 21st July 2008

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

Shinscar · 21st July 2008

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

x

ads · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by TheBrick(Tommy)

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?

Ved · 21st July 2008

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

TheBrick(Tommy) · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by ads

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.

Sam · 21st July 2008

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!

dogsballs · 21st July 2008

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

brain-flick · 21st July 2008

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

Hard luck Em.

EM · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by Ved

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.

hippy · 21st July 2008

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.

Elguapo · 21st July 2008

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!

edscoble · 21st July 2008

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Originally Posted by Elguapo

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.

tynan · 22nd July 2008

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Originally Posted by edscoble

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.

Elguapo · 22nd July 2008

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21st July 2008	#1
EM	Customs charges? 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
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21st July 2008	#3
TheBrick(Tommy)	Prob about right. Import tax plus vat on goods + tax + handling charge.
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21st July 2008	#6
andyp	Probably the clunkiest web page ever but here it is as explained by HM Customs and Excise
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21st July 2008	#7
Platini	I got an exhaust for my motorbike from Texas. That cost me GBP85 in duty. And that was four or five years ago... :-((
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21st July 2008	#11
\|³\|MA3K	The system can be arbitrary for sure. sometimes you get stung.
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21st July 2008	#14
31t®um	i got a bill to months after delivery, wrote back "return to sender." no longer at this address, last i heard.
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21st July 2008	#17
deadly fanny pack	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.
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21st July 2008	#22
dogsballs	can ask to put prototype or even frame repair, which shouldn't get hit ;)
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21st July 2008	#23
Shinscar	bugger gutted...i'll give you £125 for the lot? x
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21st July 2008	#29
brain-flick	My Bridgestone got held up at customs and cost me £91 in duty/Parcelfarce fees. Hard luck Em.
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21st July 2008	#31
hippy	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.
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21st July 2008	#32
Elguapo	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!
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