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Title: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Bfellows on February 26, 2014, 09:56 PM
Having been bent over and reamed out by the Royal Mail to the tune of £12.50 vat and "handling fee" on a £20.00 brake cable from the US my arse is twitching like a bunnies nose at the thought of buying some odds and ends from Natsukashi....... Anyone buy and get stung by customs or is it generally something that gets through?
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Retrodan72 on February 26, 2014, 10:06 PM
I've had loads of parts off Ian, never been stung for any additional charges.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: adenough on February 26, 2014, 10:46 PM
I've had loads of parts off Ian, never been stung for any additional charges.  :daumenhoch:
Ditto  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Clean on February 26, 2014, 10:54 PM
I've had loads of parts off Ian, never been stung for any additional charges.  :daumenhoch:
Ditto  :daumenhoch:

Three times!  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Funkyworm on February 26, 2014, 10:58 PM
Burt,

The 1st time i bought a single kashimax it was a ok but when i bought another 2 together  i got stung, so i'd tread carefully & just buy bits at a time.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Bfellows on February 27, 2014, 07:40 AM
Burt,

The 1st time i bought a single kashimax it was a ok but when i bought another 2 together  i got stung, so i'd tread carefully & just buy bits at a time.  :daumenhoch:

Cheers all.  The point above is my worry as I need 4 or 5 chains and a couple of other odds and ends - I suppose that what I save compared with UK is a lot more than the customs charge (incidentally, I have no issue with the customs fee and VAT, but the Royal mail admin fee is another matter........)
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Peter J on February 27, 2014, 07:45 AM
I've had things off him a few times and never got "taxed" I suppose it's like the old days of buying from the US it's the luck of the draw, I suppose now eBay are double stinging people for the import tax from the US to the UK customs are busy sorting that lot out :)


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Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: BMX1973 on February 27, 2014, 06:21 PM
I never got a customs fee from them when I bought the odd item. Delivery is pretty quick too. :) Same when I bought from Mr porkchop.  :)
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: CustardLips on March 01, 2014, 01:14 AM
Having been bent over and reamed out by the Royal Mail to the tune of £12.50 vat and "handling fee" on a £20.00 brake cable from the US my arse is twitching like a bunnies nose at the thought of buying some odds and ends from Natsukashi....... Anyone buy and get stung by customs or is it generally something that gets through?
He's a member on here. Give him a shout see what he reckons, sure he'll know the crack.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Retrodan72 on March 01, 2014, 07:11 AM
I've just bought a Kashi Aero from him yesterday, could've got the same from Alan's with no charges, but Ian's £6 cheaper than Alan's.

We'll see what happens, and if it was worth the risk to save £6.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Bfellows on March 01, 2014, 10:11 AM
 :daumenhoch:  Post up when it get here!
Title: Re: Buying from Japan......
Post by: Retrodan72 on March 01, 2014, 10:16 AM
:daumenhoch:  Post up when it get here!

Will do Bert.  :daumenhoch:
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