Wiggle Pricing..

mloc123

So when I view the Focus Cayo on wiggle its £980.10 but when I log in its £1,021.79... whats going on here? Is it irish VAT being added?

TinyExplosions

mloc123 wrote: »

So when I view the Focus Cayo on wiggle its £980.10 but when I log in its £1,021.79... whats going on here? Is it irish VAT being added?

Got it in one -you've your delivery country added as Ireland, so it changes the VAT rate to 21.5%

lukester

I had an anomaly with stuff I ordered last week, and I was logged in. When I viewed the item on the site it was listed at one price, when I went to checkout price had jumped by about 5%.

I emailed them and they applied a discount to bring the price down to the advertised price.

Nietzschean

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Got it in one -you've your delivery country added as Ireland, so it changes the VAT rate to 21.5%

i thought EU vat stuff was based on the source country not the destination? unless wiggle have an ltd in ireland?

TinyExplosions

Nietzschean wrote: »

i thought EU vat stuff was based on the source country not the destination? unless wiggle have an ltd in ireland?

It depends on quantity of sales IIRC. Not all retailers go over this threshold, or indeed do they apply this law, but Wiggle do.

see here and here for more

blorg

The threshold is actually quite low, no question certain other UK shops are over it also and should be registered for VAT in Ireland (this jurisdiction.)

Nietzschean

TinyExplosions wrote: »

It depends on quantity of sales IIRC. Not all retailers go over this threshold, or indeed do they apply this law, but Wiggle do.

see here and here for more

ah never knew that, thanks

rubadub

This comes up in consumer issues a lot, there is a limit as mentioned, the likes of play or amazon & pixmania do it. But certain items do not, e.g. I think play's clothes company might be different, a loophole would be splitting your business up into many smaller ones. Could be exempt or something, I am not sure.

There are also delivery places in the north, €25+ for items to here, depending on size. You pay and have it delivered to their depot in the north, so not only you save on VAT you usually save on postage too.

http://www.recessionbustours.com/

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lukester

I am obviously missing something here, but why don't CRC charge VAT then?

madmoe

rubadub wrote: »

This comes up in consumer issues a lot, there is a limit as mentioned, the likes of play or amazon & pixmania do it. But certain items do not, e.g. I think play's clothes company might be different, a loophole would be splitting your business up into many smaller ones. Could be exempt or something, I am not sure.

There are also delivery places in the north, €25+ for items to here, depending on size. You pay and have it delivered to their depot in the north, so not only you save on VAT you usually save on postage too.

http://www.recessionbustours.com/

Hi all,
A word of warning about http://www.recessionbustours.ie/, they are a complete shower of idiots and I hope you do not have the mis fortunate I did in getting mixed up with them.

I ordered a piece of furniture in Argos in the North and wanted them to deliver it to me in Dublin. Firstly, I contacted them through the contact form on their website and asked how much it would be to get said item of furniture delivered to Dublin and I was told no more then €40. I sent them the exact link from the Argos website so they had dimensions, weight etc. Delivery day came and I was then told I had to pay €60 by another person, apparently the guy that runs the show even though I had the e-mail that said €40.
Apparently there are a number of people involved and differnt prices are given out....first warning sign!!

He arrived on his own with a van and my piece of living room furnitire in it, I had though he would at least have had one helper as the unit was big and in tow pieces )second warning sign). With no one else in sight I had to help him bring it into my place only to discover the top part of the unit was badly damaged?? Anyhow, Argos got the blame and he agreed to take the unit back up to the North with him.

Next day I called Argos and in fairness to them they agreed to send out a replacement no questions asked. So the delivery date for the replacement is set to the following week and they will pick up the damaged top half of the unit and replace with a new one. I called yer fella and told him the deal, he re-assured me that he would be back down to deliver the replacement unit the next day after it was delivered and that he would call me beforehand.

I waited, and waited and once again waited..... and with no word from him (not even that call he promised), I decided to call. Turns out Argos came, something magical happened and once again the unit was damaged.....He was unable to tell me who signed for the unit?? There is no way in hell that Argos would come to replace a unit with a damaged one and no way they would leave the new unit without it being signed for so all I can assume is one of his incompetent staff damaged it again if in fact that is the real story??

The moral of it all is that I would never ever use these shower again and would be worried for anyone else that would, especially when it comes to furniture. I have no idea what they are like with delivering anything else but I can sure as hell tell you I won't be finding out!!

Sorry to rave but you know it does good to get these things off one's chest!!

Cheers,
M