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Customs the toss pots!

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munners:
Got a bike cheap from the US.........i thought! Until i got a letter from the royal mail this morning... I gotta pay an extra £107! They really do take the biscuit. I am not getting anything from the states anymore. Sick of it all the time. And the bloke in the US promised to mark it under $50 and a kids bike etc. Looks like that dont work unless he didnt bother. Oh well. >:(

adenough:
didnt bother mate, my bro sent me a bike and sent as a gift, got through no probs, but the first bike i got cost me 140 quid in duty,the tossers

DIRTBIKER250F:
 :2gunsfiring_v1: Royal fooking snail, got my cw seatpost on Saturday, £32 customs charge on a seatpost. Are we seeing a stealth tax on Ebay  :tickedoff: when i started building bikes 2 1/2 yrs ago i never got customs charges  >:( wonder what the revenue has jumped to because of Ebay ??

Paul :Great_Britain:

Jt:
so much gear getting bought owt the states cos of exchange rate, they had to jump on it i suppose..however, some still slip through.Got some box cranks the other day, and even though the seller promised to mark em up cheap, it still said clearly 600 dollars on the box!

no customs charge though, which was a right result.....

i honestly think some americans begrudge us and our favourable exchange rate and dont do that bit,so you do get stung at the back end. Its like them not wanting to deal internationally, even though it makes no difference to them at all, as they sill have to pack it and take it to the post office.

the bloke who sold me the cranks moaned like fook about paypal taking there 3% or whatever it is...this was after i;d sent the dough and he wouldnt accept the payment when he realised there were fee's....told him to fook it off and cancel then..he soon took it!

Am cycles marked some cranks low for me once, and then didnt the next time and i got stung...

no way around the random nature of it i dont reckon.

WARDY:
when buying from the states you should always allow 4 it being caught,(because it wiil be) last time i was in parcel force with these                                                                                                                       sorry couldnt resist , theres a sign up now saying that customs are clamping down, so if it is nt that cheap with the charges, buy in the UK or Europe fook the americans

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