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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Battosai - 07-10-09

Samo: All were marked under $50.

Stung on all of 'em.

My worst streak yet. 4 in a row.

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Samo - 07-10-09

Wow, unlucky!

Surely Customs and Excise have got better things to do!

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Lorrie - 07-10-09

That is just bad luck!

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - streak - 07-10-09

(07-10-09, 05:06 PM)Battosai Wrote:  Stung on all of 'em.

My worst streak yet. 4 in a row.

What did I do????

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - landmines - 08-10-09

I cant get out of this damn thread, not the best few for me. uhh. I stayed up late painting my house last night, so i was exhausted all day, but it should have went well. I was supposed to paint a giant eagle on a friend of mines garage. Home depot totally screwed my day. I wasted a tank of gas and my afternoon driving around from store to store trying to rent scaffolding that they were out of! worst thing, I was referred to one of them and called ahead to the other two and was told they had them in stock.. What is with people. "Yes we have that and it will be $49 for a week." Wow, good deal! I get there and its "im sorry sir we are out, looks like the store all the way across towns got it"

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - mr.pure - 08-10-09

Wankers.

Gift makes no difference to customs, value including shipping has to be under £18 to avoid customs, after that it's at the customs officers discretion.

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - nikosg - 08-10-09

i havent got any sort of tax on any shoes ive bought as yet we got good customs here down under hehe

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - steve-o - 08-10-09

^indeed... no customs tax on anything under $1000au from what I understand

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Battosai - 08-10-09

I don't mind the odd customs charge, but I've been hit about 10 times in 10 months, which is really grinding my gears now.

I had a clean run for ages, but now it's payback, and it stinks.

This is one I've not got yet:

Parcel tracks

Date Time Location Tracking Event
06-10-2009 14:02 International Hub AWAITING CUSTOMS CHARGING
06-10-2009 14:02 International Hub AWAITING CUSTOMS CHARGES
06-10-2009 14:00 International Hub Arrived in destination country
02-10-2009 14:16 Delivery Agent - LOS ANGELES AMU Left origin country
29-09-2009 19:27 Delivery Agent - UNITED STATES AMERICA Collected from customer


That'll be my 11th one of the year and 5th in a row.

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Grimmy - 08-10-09

Battosai, that sure sucks. Even having bad luck doesn't cover that much.

Our customs suck so much. They're slow and they use their own currency exchange rates which might differ alot from the actual rates at the moment. According to my numerous encounters with them over the years they often charge pretty random sums from you even if you'd estimated pretty well what the correct sum would be. This is basically why i hate our customs so much.

Here the value to avoid any customs duties shipping included is €22 (~£20/~$32.50).
1) When exceeding €22 yet remaining below €150, you get to pay the 22% VAT if the tax total exceeds €10. That again means the value can actually be way over €40 before you should get stung or even need to pick up the delivery at customs - depending on customs' rates and how they feel.
2) When exceeding €150, you get to pay also 12% duty so if your order of supes' value is slightly over €150 in total, you'd get to pay €50+ to get them. At least that but sometimes much much more.

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Battosai - 08-10-09

^ The things we do for Supes, eh?

I did think you'd get it worse just by way of you being a smaller country with less stuff coming through customs, which would give them more time to fuck with you or each individual package.

Whereas the UK must get millions coming through per day, which probably means we can slip the net more often.

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Grimmy - 08-10-09

Define smaller. By numbers Finland is actually nearly 1,5x the size of the UK but we have less than 10% of the population of the UK.

As for customs messing up with our packages more due to less traffic, that i can agree with.

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Old Gregg - 08-10-09

Having to get up early to let the cleaners into the lab only for them to do a half arsed job because they hate doing it

Time to turn the heating up and have a snooze :d

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - mr.pure - 08-10-09

Are you an evil Scientist ?

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RE: Things that make your blood boil - Grimmy - 08-10-09

That was the first thing came into my mind. Making all kinds of tests and projects with aliens but kept in secret by the government. No wonder if all that secrecy would boil your blood eventually.

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