cliveb;287288 Wrote: > Just to correct this. When you personally import something from the US, > you pay the US retail price *excluding* local sales tax, plus UK VAT at > 17.5%, plus the courier's fee for collecting the VAT on behalf of HMRC. > (Last time I imported anything, the Royal Mail charged me £8 to collect > about £8.75 of VAT!). There is no "import duty".
To, err, correct the correction, check out this website: http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageVAT_ShowContent&id=HMCE_CL_001454&propertyType=document There is import duty (plus VAT as well), although this is often pretty low: MP3 players are 2% (which is probably the SB3's category), as are CD players - although DVD players are 14%. Odd, but that's tax for you. But the rest is right - there is no US sales tax. So the SB3 at £149 from dabs is comfortably cheaper than buying direct from Slim Devices in the US at $299. Doing the maths with the Duet: US price $399 UK sterling say £200 Add shipping say £210 Import duty added £214 VAT added totals £252 UK price (dabs) £285 So there's a 13% premium, which does not seem totally unreasonable to me. -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others SB+, EAR V20, Living Voice OBX-R2s plus some other stuff SB3, Charlize, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45734
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