i bought items from china

midajoh

they have arrived to PORTLAOISE MAIL CENTRE CO LAOISE and says the items have been accepted can someone tell or let me know what happens from there?

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ITEM ACCEPTED20 November 07 Item History
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ITEM ACCEPTEDPORTLAOISE MAIL CENTRE CO LAOISE20 November 07 ARRIVEDPORTLAOISE OVR CO LAOIS20 November 07
is there any chance customs can hold them?
or will they be released for delivery?
thank you.

RoyalMarine

didnt you get caught shipping wimmin before?

marcsignal

Who told you they were in Portlaoise Post office ?? Did the seller provide you with a link to a website for tracking the parcel from china ??

Did you pay using PayPal ??

I bought a Crash Helmet from China last xmas using PayPal and the guy I bought it from on E-bay provided me with a postal tracking link. i was able to track the helmet all the way from china using the website provided. It first arrived in Portlaoise Sorting Office, then to Sandyford Sorting Office in Dublin, and was delivered to my house by An Post the next day. I was not charged or questioned about any customs or exise issues .

midajoh

yes,the seller provided me with the tracking number.
the thing that concerns me if the customs were going to hold the items.
or will they be released without any problems?
thanks.

Senna

Depends on the item and value

midajoh

i bought 10 tomtom go 920 navigation systems to the value of 2500 euro.

Rob_l

should this be in AH
should it?
anyway unless its drugs women or cars i dont care

RoyalMarine

customs might stop them due to their value. most items over a a few hundred euro's require you to pay tax to bring them into the country.

dame

Why would you need ten of them? Are you trying to sell them on? Tsk tsk.

midajoh

i have a large family:).

Beano

If customs get their hands on them expect a bill of €800+ for vat and duty

boneless

Beano wrote: »

If customs get their hands on them expect a bill of €800+ for vat and duty

What he said!!! This time of the year especially, Customs are working extra hard!!

patrickolee

silly smugglers

Stercus Accidit

Jeasus the lads in the airsoft forum are forever importing things from hong kong etc! So heres how it will go.

Basically, portlaoise accepts the package, into customs, out of customs, your nearest mail centre, your house. Thats the order.

Customs duty is 21 per cent afaik, if they charge, they may not.

marcsignal

midajoh wrote: »

yes,the seller provided me with the tracking number.
the thing that concerns me if the customs were going to hold the items.
or will they be released without any problems?
thanks.

If the seller has specified the value of the item as (in your case) a lot less than they are worth, on the parcel label, the parcel should arrive in a few days. Keep checking the tracking site and if it leaves Portlaoise, and arrives at another Irish Sorting Office, you should be ok, I guess ?

Jesus Wept

postal queries forum ftw, every day there is a couple of threads.

CantGetNoSleep

Was it a machete by any chance? If it was, it was just on rte news

midajoh

i just seen the news looks like i'll be paying taxes.

Beano

Motosam wrote: »

Jeasus the lads in the airsoft forum are forever importing things from hong kong etc! So heres how it will go.

Basically, portlaoise accepts the package, into customs, out of customs, your nearest mail centre, your house. Thats the order.

Customs duty is 21 per cent afaik, if they charge, they may not.

the duty is 13.5%. The VAT is 21%

ScumLord

It's hit and miss, I've never been charged for anything I've imported from Columbia, I think it depends on who's on duty that day and how close it is to tea break. I've just been lucky.

midajoh

ScumLord

i hope your right because it's going to cost me a fortune if i have to pay.
btw i'm going to colombia in 2 weeks for a six week holiday:)were spending 5 days in san andreas.
the remaining time i'll be in bogota really looking forward to it.:)

ScumLord

midajoh wrote: »

ScumLord

i hope your right because it's going to cost me a fortune if i have to pay.
btw i'm going to colombia in 2 weeks for a six week holiday:)were spending 5 days in san andreas.
the remaining time i'll be in bogota really looking forward to it.:)

Cool, just keep a cool head on the way back into the country and you should get through security no problem.

midajoh

lol:D
just one question i have to ask you.
when you items arrived to PORTLAOISE how long did it take to be released?
thank you for your answer.

ScumLord

One was more or less a day the other kind of disappeared for a while and did a tour of the country so it took nearly a week.

drdre

midajoh wrote: »

lol:D
just one question i have to ask you.
when you items arrived to PORTLAOISE how long did it take to be released?
thank you for your answer.

every time i get a product through portlaoise post depot it arrives the next morning to dublin.It is really quick.

midajoh

it has almost been 2 days since it arrived.
and all i am seeing is the item has been accepted.
most people have said the same as you that it took only one day.
so why is it taking so long with my order?

2 stroke

An item I purchassed recently from finland spent 2 days in Thailand.

bangersandmash

midajoh wrote: »

i have a large family:).

and they do not like bread, only cigarettes



oh that fat tony... what hilarious comedic capers will he get up to next?

Kess73

midajoh wrote: »

i bought 10 tomtom go 920 navigation systems to the value of 2500 euro.

Pretty sure it is going to be held by customs. I don't know if you were listening to TodayFM this morning, but they had some guy involved in the custom side of things on there talking about people bringing stuff in from none EU countries, especially people buying large quantities of electronic goods (large being more than one), and they are charging something like 30% onto the price the person paid.

They are monitoring what people bring in themselves at airports, and any parcel/package posted from a non European country with a listed value of over 50 quid.

It was on the Ray D'arcy show, so it should be on their podcast by this evening if you want to check out the details the guy was talking about.

ScumLord

Aren't they mean ol bastards all the same. You'd think they'd give us a break for Christmas, it could be like the governments present to the people but no instead they decided to be anal about it and ruin any bargains we found.