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Re: UK customs charges on computer equipment
« on: September 18, 2004, 12:09:39 PM »
I advise that if you buy something second hand from somebody in the US or Canada, you ask them to declare the value low. I recently got a DKB3128 board from a user here who lives in Canada and I got charged 27% of its declared value in import duty. It is payable directly to the ParcelForce guy who brings the package around, or else you have to pay at the depot.
I suggest listing the item (if it is a component) as broken, or in need of repair or faulty. Considering the elderly look of most of our Amiga components today, I promise you even if they open the package they won't challenge you. And the worst that can happen is they make you pay an import charge, which will nonetheless be lower than what you would have paid if the sender declared the full value.