jaffacake;287164 Wrote: > To legally import good from the US, you pay the cost price in the US, > then you add on the local sales tax in the US, then you add on shipping > to the UK. Total that. > > Then you add on import duty as a percentage of that total - I believe > it was 10% last time I looked. Note that total. > > Then you add on VAT @ 17.5% > > Having done this to the retail price of a Sonos in California, adding > on 8% sales tax, then shipping, then duty, then VAT...and converted to > GBP, I found a price not massively different to the UK retail price. > Last time I calculated, the break even was somewhere between 1.6-1.7$ > to the £. Currently the £ is stronger, so the import price is cheaper, > I think it was about £50 on a Sonos bundle. > > Personally, I think the £50 fully justifies the UK retailer handling > and local warranty. Marketing of the product would cost more here too. > >
An individual making a purchase when in the USA would pay local sales tax, but no shipping. An individual ordering from the USA would pay shipping, but usually not sales tax. A distributor (and the retail price would be based on that) would pay shipping, which might be quite small per unit when ordering several but would not pay local sales tax when ordering from the manufacturer. And the reviewer was more concerned with the cost compared with other products (whatever one thinks of his choice of an alternative) than the comparison with US prices. -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45734
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