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Ebuyers will not ship to Rep of Ireland from 07/03/11

  • 07-03-2011 12:56pm
    #1
    Tech Guy Sligo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭


    Hi Guy just got this email form Ebuyers
    Disappointing they are a great company to deal with.

    =============
    Dear Customer

    Unfortunately due to VAT reasons we are no longer able to accept or deliver orders to Customers in the Republic of Ireland.

    Your order will therefore be cancelled and a full refund will be processed back to the billing card used on this order.

    We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience or frustration caused.


    Ebuyer
    -==================


Comments

  • #2
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    This is probably due to the €35,000 limit. If they are getting over 35k of business it might be in their interest to properly register, I see their site already has the option to display with or without vat so it should be easy enough to set it up with a different VAT rate for here.

    Chainreactioncycles is a popular site up north who do this, it always has VAT shown but shows Irish vat when you pick your country.

    http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/leaflets/distance-sales-eu.html
    Distance sales to the State

    Where the value of distance sales to persons in this State by a supplier in another Member State exceeds or is likely to exceed €35,000 in a calendar year, that supplier must register for VAT in this State and must account for VAT at the appropriate Irish rates. If the threshold is not exceeded, the supplier may, nevertheless, opt to register and account for VAT in this State on his or her distance sales.


  • #3
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    This seems rather stupid, they're doing so much business to Ireland that they're going to cut it off just to save having to vat register here. Crazy stuff.


  • #4
    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,075 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    Whilst it sounds bizzare I can see where they're coming from. Net margins on hi-tech items online are very very low - can be as little as 2% or 3 % If they are hovering aroud that threshold the actual profit being made on the €35,000 of sales could be less than €1,000 which would most likely be swallowed up with increased accounting fees involved with registering in other countries.

    Of course if they were to significantly increase their business past the 35k which they have no chance of doing if they stop now then it would become more attractive.


  • #5
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    jor el wrote: »
    This seems rather stupid, they're doing so much business to Ireland that they're going to cut it off just to save having to vat register here. Crazy stuff.

    Seems ludicrous doesn't it?

    Armando Sanchez is Operations Director, he's tweets a lot with customers.

    Perhaps Irish customers should let it be known that they're baffled by Ebuyers stance on Irish VAT.

    http://twitter.com/armandoebuyer


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