Stop daylight robbery

A question about : Stop daylight robbery

I just bought a monitor from south Korea through ebay and the price was Ј198 with free delivery I thought wow as it was an amazing monitor and then bought it thinking thats it. I then realised even though there was no mention of it I probably would pay some VAT etc. and I thought ok I guess thats fair.

The bill for this Ј198 object came today : Ј105 !!! My jaw dropped I have found out recently that most people have paid between Ј0 and Ј50 for exactly the same object no one has even got to my dizzy hieghts of Ј105!! It makes me sick that they can take an object like this which has already had its postage paid for may i say and slap over 55 percent extra on top of it!! Jesus daylight robbery!

Anyway it just needs to be sorted out its so bad! I want to type more but I have to go - just wanted to throw it out there!

ps I was speaking to one guy from canada just now and he paid $20 :O

Well at least I'll sleep well tonight knowing I paid for one light bulb : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ight-bulb.html

Best answers:

• [QUOTE=notanewuser;65654508]20% is the VAT payable on imported goods. There is no separate agreement re goods from Korea (or anywhere else outside the EU).
  eBay is registered in Luxembourg, not the UK!!!
  Crackers!!![/QUOTE
  It oh it's bops wife...
  Yes I know it's 20 re read the post...https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/cou...s/south-korea/ Ok it's the eu must admit that was second hand info...not even worth explaining the rest don't forget to tuck bop into bed
• Thing is, Mumraa, the import duty is not payable by the sender but by the buyer (who is the importer) so it's important that, if you are buying goods from abroad, you to factor the costs of duty in.
  And, while I know you aren't here for help (it's the wrong part of the forum for that) it might help other people if they stumble across this thread. it's an issue that's come up before - and will again, I'm sure.
• Why are you comparing our customs with Canada?
  If they didn't charge duty on the postage, it would be even cheaper to buy from abroad. We might as well stop making anything in the UK because everybody would just buy and import everything from outside.
• I can see why you are cross; had you paid less for the item plus the postage then you would probably have paid less duty. The way to go would have been to get the sellet to invoice for the cost of goods and postage separately.
  IMO ebay have caused this issue; now they charge 10% of the total transaction there is no financial advantage, for a seller, of separating cost of goods and cost of postage.
• I purchased an item from China, there were multiple sellers of the same item (all came from same factory probably) I went for the seller with good feedback and quoted the item as Ј128 plus Ј121 postage, others were advertising at Ј230 to Ј250 with free postage ( I suppose it makes it sound like a better deal although you really should factor in the postage) I ended up paying a total of about Ј40 (Parcel Farce admin fee and vat charges etc)...so shop carefully and as others say....get the postage charge shown seperately.
• Why don't people just do their own import paperwork - it reduces any duty to a nice predictable/easy to calculate sum and entirely avoids any "clearence fees" and the like.
• Seriously: Just don't.
  You pay top dollar for postage and they WILL ensure you pay top dollar for handling fees + VAT + Duty (and your items are subject to the vagueries of Royal Mail - there's a 50/50- chance a video monitor will arrive with a smashed screen in my experience. They even managed to completely shatter a laptop once.)
  There is NO duty applicable to a LCD video monitor, so if you've been charged 14% then you have grounds for complaint.
  https://www.gov.uk/trade-tariff/commodities/8528593100
  Fedex and UPS may seem more expensive, but the goods arrive quickly, undamaged, tracked the entire trip and their handling fees are low (Fedex is slightly lower than UPS, but $orkplace has a UPS account for such things, so work stuff goes that way).
  After various rounds of experience with imports I won't ship using anything else. It's just not worth the hassle and risk.
• This is the whole point of being in Europe - making it easier to move/buy/sell goods across a distinct set of countries - and to specific standards, etc.
  Buy outside of Europe and that's what you get .... it's always been like that.
• Do not try to make this a Europe debate, it has nothing to do with Europe as the item was bought from Korea. We all know Europe would do anything to wreck England and the debate should go elsewhere.