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These look nice (anything to get away from tax/insurance/etc)

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  • #2
    niceonetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    Picture_7_large.png?1255974339

    YES!

    I'm too old to be wearing t-shirts with sci-fi characters on them... but I'm also too old to give a crap what people think of what I wear... so... hmm... tempting.


  • #3
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    If you order from the States do you have to pay VAT on them, or customs duty or postage insurance or what?


    (Sorry :D )


  • #4
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    niceonetom wrote: »
    YES!

    I'm too old to be wearing t-shirts with sci-fi characters on them... but I'm also too old to give a crap what people think of what I wear... so... hmm... tempting.

    Seriously though? Chewbacca riding a brakeless fixie with a messenger bag?


  • #5
    niceonetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    Lumen wrote: »
    Seriously though? Chewbacca riding a brakeless fixie with a messenger bag?

    I know. I know.


  • #6
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Lumen wrote: »
    Seriously though? Chewbacca riding a brakeless fixie with a messenger bag?
    Interstellar smuggling has to start somewhere.


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  • #7
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Bunnyhopper wrote: »
    If you order from the States do you have to pay VAT on them, or customs duty or postage insurance or what?

    I was researching this recently in an amateur way. My guess is -

    $ Exch € Final

    T Shirt 40.00 1.30 30.77 26.67
    UPS 35.00 1.30 26.92 23.33
    Duty 12.0% ---> 6.92
    An Post fee ---> 6.00
    VAT at 21.5% ---> 15.18

    €78.10


    The customs use a fixed exchange rate, not the daily rate (I have not found their rate yet).

    You pay duty, an An Post standard fee, and VAT on their ("calculated cost"+shipping+duty+An Post fee).
    Your original cost might be $40+$35=$75 at 1.5 = €50.00.
    "Their calculated cost" above is €30.77+26.92 = €57.69

    Your extras are €6.92+6.00+15.18 = €28.10


    Duty rate is based on the TARIC code I think. I guess it is 12% for a T shirt.

    http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds/cgi-bin/tarsect?Lang=EN&Taric=1162000000&ProdLine=80&SimDate=20091021&Country=
    &YesNo=1&Indent=-1&Download=0&Periodic=0&Action=0#OK

    http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds/cgi-bin/tarchap?Taric=6207910099&Download=0&Periodic=0&ProdLine=80&Lang=EN&SimDate=20091021&Country=
    &YesNo=1&Indent=4&Action=1#OK

    You pay €78 for a €30 T shirt.


  • #8
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Lumen wrote: »
    Seriously though? Chewbacca riding a brakeless fixie with a messenger bag?
    He also appears to be doing a skid stop.


  • #9
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    kincsem wrote: »
    I was researching this recently in an amateur way. My guess is -

    Wow, you ask a daft question and actually get a useful and sensible answer.

    Thanks :)


  • #10
    rflynnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭rflynnr


    Just went through the ordering process up to the point where I actually commit to buy. The cost was

    2 X $24.99 for two t-shirts
    $15.98 for USPS standard postage.

    Total cost: $65.97 (€45).

    I ordered a set of t-shirts from Threadless.com (another US site) last year. Their stated value was $60 and I paid €15 duty on them when they came in. By that reasoning the total price for these ones would be around €55.


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