Aegs from Ehobby

Gatling

Anybody bought an aeg from ehobby lately ,
what was the final cost after shipping and customs

oeb

Gatling wrote: »

Anybody bought an aeg from ehobby lately ,
what was the final cost after shipping and customs

I take it that you are more interested in finding out how much your prospective purchase will cost rather than how much anyone elses did cost, so here is how to work it out.

Your new toy is very likely at present to be stopped at customs when it is coming from an non eu country. They will calculate duty on the item (21% VAT) and will want to recover this before delivery.

You work out duty by taking the cost of the item plus the price of delivery and multiplying that value by 1.21

For example, if you buy an item that costs 80 euro, with a 20 euro delivery charge, customs will be on to you looking for 21 additional euro.

It is possible that the item will just slip through and you wont be charged the duty fees, but this is becoming rarer and rarer these days.

deathwish2

oeb wrote: »

I take it that you are more interested in finding out how much your prospective purchase will cost rather than how much anyone elses did cost, so here is how to work it out.

Your new toy is very likely at present to be stopped at customs when it is coming from an non eu country. They will calculate duty on the item (21% VAT) and will want to recover this before delivery.

You work out duty by taking the cost of the item plus the price of delivery and multiplying that value by 1.21

For example, if you buy an item that costs 80 euro, with a 20 euro delivery charge, customs will be on to you looking for 21 additional euro.

It is possible that the item will just slip through and you wont be charged the duty fees, but this is becoming rarer and rarer these days.

On a package that cost me 331 dollars, I paid 56.49 euro vat, then a custom docket ' post office release ' bill another 6 euro and for some reason totaled it to 64.49 euro. 331 dollars is around 258 euro, divided by 64.49 is around 4, which means I had to pay around 25 percent extra on the value of iteams+postage.

Shiva

This is how to work it out if you're purchasing from eHobby, and using Paypal.

Add the cost of the item plus shipping together to get your total. You can get the shipping total if you proceed through the checkout system until just before you commit to buying. It might take a few attempts because their system has a bug that causes it to misinterpret the cookie on your system.

Then convert the dollar amount to euro, but don't forget that Paypal always charge between one and two cents extra on the dollar than the official Market exchange rate. So if the official rate is .78, as it is today, Paypal will charge .79 or possibly even .80 on the dollar.

Then multiply that figure by 1.21 to get the cost plus VAT.

Finally, if your package includes a RIF, you WILL be charged VAT because eHobby will only dispatch a gun using UPS, and UPS will ALWAYS make sure you get charged VAT because they get to slap an extra 13.50 euro onto your bill for being so kind as to process the package through customs. So don't forget to add that 13.50 to your final price if you have a RIF in your package.

The above applies to all retailers outside the EU, with the possible exception of the customs admin fee - all of the carriers who allow RIFs will make sure they put it through customs so they can charge you their admin fee, but their rates vary.