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Hannibal:
Ohh oui, my experience the past yeaérs was similar:
in Belgium, very cheap shipping costs from England and from Germany, reasonnable from the USA, very expensive from Italy and France (ou neighbours) ...
But today rules have indeed changed, price up from Germany (except some nice and professional sellers, like Jupiter Min.), exploding from the USA, and also more expensive from the UK.
But no tax except from the USA since recently.
But we are all very bad, poor buyers actually !!!! Why are we air shipping flats of 1 to few € or $ or £ and soring them as grey armies in our own cartons for years atfer .... when we are burning stupidely crude oil and Carbon back and forth for thousand miles away, instead of buying from local sellers and inventories, even if we had to wait a couple of weeks o months more ???? What other animal on earth is doing this?
An efficient buyer let his purhcases be shipped quarterly or less, bu surface and post , not by rocket most expensive private servicing... and we should perhaps buy these flat by the weight as bulk products.... (they are most of time even unpainted)....
I use to buy from Benedikt Widmann regularly flats, pay him monthly the value, and let him bring the consolidated box at a show several weeks or months later and grouped ... I assure you, it is cheap and I paint other flats in the mean time.....
marko:
It is indeed a brave new confusing world. I have had great success receiving goods from France to the US within a week and very inexpensively. Most Ebay vendors in Germany generally seem to ship cheaply and arrive within three or forks weeks with others charging 3 x 4 times as much - I don't know on shipping times as I have not tried.
Shipping from the UK seems to have sky rocketed...
I think everyone is just trying to find their way currently. (I do note most Ebay vendors I deal with seem to be very reasonable, combining postage and truly working to keep their customers happy and prices reasonable.) Still weird times...
mark 8)
maturin:
I was just quoted E26.90 postage and insurance (ex VAT) on an order of E20 from an Ebay seller in Germany. He was apologetic, saying that Hermes no longer ship to the UK, leaving expensive DHL as the only alternative. Ebay confirmed my right to cancel, as the listing stated E13 shipping, but the seller managed to find a Hermes subsidiary offering E15.99 ex VAT so I went ahead
Have Hermes really isolated the Continent?
On a positive note, shipping from the US may be coming down from recent crazy levels. An fairly light A3-sized package was just quoted at a reasonable $25 air freight.
I understand German zinnfiguren seller figures4u_de has resumed shipping to the States - but only by sea!
Brian:
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--- Quote from: Hannibal on March 26, 2021, 06:15:48 PM ---It probably depends aba, whether you are a private sellor, or a enterprise subject to tax control in hyour own country, with a VAT number and obligeation of annual accounting declarations. But wiuthin EC, VAT is not applied, as it is for foreign countries ... So it depends how the seller is declaring himself in his country. (I guess)
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Just to show how crazy things are - this year 7 packages from Berlinner Zinnfiguren and Sammelsurium came through UK customs without a problem, one in the past week. Another on the same day incurred 20% import charge etc. Exactly the same customs declaration and lower value than the package which got through. Judging by the tracking data (see image), Customs changed its mind....
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Looks like their just making it up as they please ???
maturin:
--- Quote from: Hannibal on March 26, 2021, 06:15:48 PM ---It probably depends aba, whether you are a private sellor, or a enterprise subject to tax control in hyour own country, with a VAT number and obligeation of annual accounting declarations. But wiuthin EC, VAT is not applied, as it is for foreign countries ... So it depends how the seller is declaring himself in his country. (I guess)
--- End quote ---
Just to show how crazy things are - this year 7 packages from Berlinner Zinnfiguren and Sammelsurium came through UK customs without a problem, one in the past week. Another on the same day incurred 20% import charge etc. Exactly the same customs declaration and lower value than the package which got through. Judging by the tracking data (see image), Customs changed its mind....
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