Fcuking Brexit!

[struth]

New vat and import rules are nothing to do with Brexit, they were coming in anyway.

not from eu..

[Jimbo]

New vat and import rules are nothing to do with Brexit, they were coming in anyway.

Err that will be on top of the regulations each Eu country choses to implement when they do business with the UK.

[Patrick Dixon]

Err that will be on top of the regulations each Eu country choses to implement when they do business with the UK.

I guess they are 'taking back control'.

[Patrick Dixon]

To the OP, what you can do is to make sure the EU supplier is charging you the ex-local VAT price. Otherwise you will be paying their VAT and UK VAT on the same purchase.

[Lawrence001]

£173 fees seems steep. £150 odd tax and duty if it was £500 odd quid is to be expected, as was said above you pay vat anyway it's just more obvious when you're charged separately, and I agree the fees on top are frustrating.

If you have been charged VAT on the purchase already that's the retailer's fault not Brexit.

Really in a competitive economy you should be able to choose the courier with the lowest fee structure for the purchase you make but in practice a retailer will only work with one. The competitive pressure then has to come from customers shopping elsewhere to reduce the fees, and there being enough UK customers for the retailer to care.

[struth]

much depends on the original price... knowing gary it probably wasnt cheap

[Jimbo]

I have a couple of friends who have business in Europe and ship to the UK from two different countries. They have both told me they have had a nightmare with couriers because cheap ones get tangled up with Brexit red tape and their parcels then get stopped, returned or "lost". Therefore they have resorted to the Global couriers like FEDEX and UPS who have more robust systems and management of the regulations to ensure parcels get to their destination but this costs more and has consequences for the purchaser.

I know that conversely the Brexit imposed red tape from the UK has also made some business owners decide to quit doing business with Europe altogether as they have had nightmare courier problems going into Europe with parcels getting stopped, returned or "lost"

[Gazjam]

Quite a bit more to it than that I reckon

If I could have bought a UK based PSU to the same quality I would have, spent a lot of time... Trust me I looked.

Paul Hynes would have been a shout, but he no longer trades.
Sean Jacobs good too.. but his supplies aren't as good. (and no supercapacitor Tech in their linear LPSUs unlike Mr Pink Faun in Netherlands)

First instance?
Would have bought direct from Nick G (If I could have bought direct that would have been a no brainer.)
First call shout)
Enjoyed many of Nick's power supplies over the Years.
Genuinely: He's top 3 in the World, and not at the lower end.

Say that again: He's easy top 3 in the entire effin' Globe.
Nelson Pass/ Arnie Nudell level.

Aside all that nonsense:
My ideal Scenario wasn't an option,
and I refuse to go the reseller route with his supplies, fantastic as they are.

Ah well.

the vast majority of it will be VAT which you would have paid anyway.

The only extra will be the duty (probably 3%), VAT on the shipping charges and the clearance charge (£12 or £18).

You could have bought a power supply in the UK, it's just a traffo and some caps in a box when all's said and done.

[Gazjam]

I guess they are 'taking back control'.

Hear Ya.
Only Country thats imposing Sanctions on itself!

[Jimbo]

Hear Ya.
Only Country thats imposing Sanctions on itself!

Makes me laugh when the Muppets in power suggested that there were going to be no hold ups at the border but they forgot a border has two sides.