Ahem, and they say's it's a free country.
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| sonyse2t5 Member London 40 Posts 3/02 |  Posted - Dec 7 2002 : 8:58AMI deal with a dvd company that only declares $5 per disk....I use their USAF mail service. Got 5 at a time and pay no charges.....but today Consigna slapped a £14 charge on the disks What the fuck I though, but local postman said forget it but give me a good xmas tip, I never heard of customs deciding how much the order is, they didn't open the [Link] |
| Rumplestilt Skin Deactivated User 931 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Dec 7 2002 : 9:10AM Ahem, and they say's it's a free country. Rump. [Link] |
| fannatastic Member England 212 Posts 4/01 | Posted - Dec 7 2002 : 12:25PM fannatastic [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Dec 7 2002 : 4:08PM [Link] |
| Gabriel Nine Senior Member Firecracker 1273 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Dec 8 2002 : 5:03PM Incidentally, I don't know if any of you read about how HMC&E, as happens remarkably often, bungled another set of court cases which it's estimated will cost the tax payer millions of lost revenue as well as millions in legal bills (the cases were to do with alcohol meant for export being resold in the UK). Another major fiasco, but they seem to remain beyond criticism. Then there's the harrassment of cross channel shoppers. Hopefully the government will be forced to reform this disgraceful agency, but if HMC&E get their way, I'm sure they'll grab every last penny of extra revenue they can. So, in short, to get back to the point of this thread, it doesn't surprise me one little bit that they are being unfair to adult DVD shoppers. It's just the way they are. Edited by - Gabriel Nine on 12/8/2002 5:09:27 PM [Link] |
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| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Dec 9 2002 : 8:26AM There is no custom duty for DVDs ordered within the EU. [Link] |
| Gabriel Nine Senior Member Firecracker 1273 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Dec 9 2002 : 6:01PM I also looked at material on the treasury and HMC&E websites to see if there was any mention of this change to the threshold - all I could find was stuff about measures to prevent VAT fraud. Does this mean we're in the clear? I wouldn't bet on it. [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Dec 12 2002 : 4:25PM Maybe we'll find our seized DVDs on the black market [Link] |
| sonyse2t5 Member London 40 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Dec 12 2002 : 6:17PM intothe black market then lets have some! [Link] |
| Misfit Member 9 Posts 12/02 | Posted - Dec 14 2002 : 12:32AM [Link] |
| Rumplestilt Skin Deactivated User 931 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Dec 14 2002 : 4:04AM I have two orders currently washing around in the festive postal system! [Link] |
| Gabriel Nine Senior Member Firecracker 1273 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Dec 14 2002 : 6:08AM It may seem laughable, but it is pretty feasible that seized DVDs have been nicked and flogged. If boxes of booze and fags can just "fall off the back of a lorry" what's to stop a few discs being lifted. [Link] |
| Pessy New Member 2 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Dec 27 2002 : 7:12PM So if you've been overcharged then it's not that hard to get your money back. However, you don't get the collection charge (£2ish?) that the Royal Mail slap on you back too easily though... [Link] |
| Rumplestilt Skin Deactivated User 931 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Jan 8 2003 : 5:27PM However, some people would rather not go down that route. I personally would probably forget it and put it down as bad luck. Good for you Pessy that you stuck to your guns, m8. Regards, Rump. [Link] |
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