Customs charges? (1 Viewer)

[Green Goblin]

I ordered a second hand microkorg off eBay, and I ended up getting charged €60+ customs.

This is just a crazy level of charge. I don't normally complain about the existence of taxation, but it's just such a dodgy way of getting so much money. Customs have gotten so strict lately too, I had a guitar picked up too.

It doesn't make sense for me that a second hand item can get that much charge. For all they know - it could have been a junker, and not worth anything much at all. They held it for a fucking week too.

It would have been cheaper for me to order one new off Thomann.

I'm really pissed as hell. I read somewhere, can't find it now, that you didn't get charged for second hand items so I thought it'd be okay.

 

[Jill Hives]

I bought a few second hand dresses last year and it cost me 120 euro to get them out of the post office. Blows. Hard, like. Never again.

 

[Green Goblin]

I don't get why people don't take action on this kind of thing, with these crazy charges how can the government run out of money so easily?

 

[Froog]

got something for 179 off thomann.de, will i have to pay charges? how does it work, do you get a bill in the post or something?

 

[muffin]

got something for 179 off thomann.de, will i have to pay charges? how does it work, do you get a bill in the post or something?

When I got hit with it, the dude that delivered it told me I had to pay it and took the money there and then. Don't know what happens if you don't have the money on you.

 

[Froog]

mite bribe him with a jaffa cake and a hand job.

 

[magicbastarder]

i didn't know VAT was payable on secondhand goods?
how much was the microkorg?

 

[Unicron]

got something for 179 off thomann.de, will i have to pay charges? how does it work, do you get a bill in the post or something?

Nope, Thomann state that they charge VAT at 21.5% on their website and as you're getting the item from within the EU you won't have to pay customs/excise charges.

 

[Froog]

Nope, Thomann state that they charge VAT at 21.5% on their website and as you're getting the item from within the EU you won't have to pay customs/excise charges.

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[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

got something for 179 off thomann.de, will i have to pay charges? how does it work, do you get a bill in the post or something?

omg do you play music?

 

[Froog]

omg do you play music?

i mainly just steal it.

 

[Green Goblin]

Seriously, is customs meant to be chargable on second hand items? Surely it'd be less?

 

[theoootini]

yes. if it's from outside the EU, regardless of whether it's 2nd hand or otherwise- it's calculated on the price you paid for the item. sometimes the seller is willing to declare it as a "gift" or less than it's worth. depends on the seller. otherwise you gots to pay...

 

[Lili Marlene]

there should be a slip with a breakdown. 60 quid seems to be fairly standard 'handling' + item of some kind tax.

i've gotten this sort of charge on cd's before

 

[Unicron]

Seriously, is customs meant to be chargable on second hand items? Surely it'd be less?

In the eyes of the Dept. Of Finance you're simply importing an item into the country and it's provenance is irrelevant to them, all they care about is the value of the item which they presumably saw on the packaging of the microkorg when it arrived in and the rate would have been applied to that.

Had you got the seller to declare the value of the item to be less than you'd paid for it than you you might have got away with paying less. Of course in that case in the event of it being damaged in transit there are issues with underinsurance.

Oh and fraud too probably.

 

[Space]

Didn't froog buy from the english thomann instead of the irish? So he may get hit with an extra 21.5% if he's unlucky.

How much was the microkorg gg? €60 seems a lot for it, did customs have a value for it?

 

[magicbastarder]

yes. if it's from outside the EU, regardless of whether it's 2nd hand or otherwise- it's calculated on the price you paid for the item.

it's calculated on the price you paid, plus the cost of shipping.

 

[theoootini]

ahem. yes.

 

[egg_]

I don't get why people don't take action on this kind of thing, with these crazy charges how can the government run out of money so easily?

The state's entire income doesn't come from customs charges, dude

 

[Tubby Tucker]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I though that the whole issue of customs duties and VAT only applied to goods bought outside the EU. Surely if you're buying from Thomann you're sound as you're trading within the E.U.