Samsung S20 FE 5G - Confusing discount!

cormie

This is £420, but there's a £100 off voucher valid until the 16th of May to bring it down to £320 delivered.

I think it's only 1 voucher per amazon account.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FTBSHKW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1

EDIT: Actually hold up, I ordered this with other items and all I saw was £100 off the EX VAT rate:

So it was showing as £250.50 EX VAT for this item and then I didn't really pay attention to the import fees and just assumed it was the 23% Irish VAT rate on top which actually would have brought it to €364, not €380 (which I calculated based on it being £420.60 minus £100 = £320.60 (which I just rounded up to €380, even though it should be €320.60 minus 20% UK VAT (divide by 1.2) = £267.17 + 23% Irish VAT (£61.45) = £328.61, so about €387...

However, I noticed the charge on my card was higher than I was expecting so put it in the basket of another amazon account (since I couldn't with mine since the discount is only 1 per amazon account) and I again got the above discount applied showing as £250.50 after the discount was applied, but then, when ordering only this item, with free delivery and discount applied, it's showing as this:

Which is actually working out to be €413 🤪

So I don't know what's going on here now, if some of that "deposit" amount will be refunded or what. Is it DUTY they are applying on top as well as the Irish VAT? I haven't ordered much from Amazon since Brexit, and I think this is the first thing over €150 (I believe the amount that DUTY is applied after) that I've ordered since Brexit.

Either way, the figures seem to be all over the place with Amazon, appearing to discount the £100 off the EX VAT rate, then appearing to discount it on the order summary part, off the VAT inclusive rate, but then there's import fees and deposits it's discounting it off too!.

alanbk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058245919/samsung-s20-fe-5g-380-delivered

sorry. Where is the £100 voucher ? Sorry I see it there on Amazon. Thanks a million

Mav11

Subject to duty and Irish VAT??

Unknownability

The price you see is the price you pay on Amazon.

cormie

Hey, sorry I've just edited the original post to show a lot of confusion on this order. I ordered it as part of another order with other items so didn't notice it, but then I noticed the payments to my card weren't adding up with what I was expecting. I've edited the OP to describe this. To be honest, I don't know what it's going to end up costing because I know amazon sometimes refund part of the deposit amount?

Mav11

I think that import duty is due on items shipped from the UK on goods over €120 (incl P+P) in value. VAT @ UK 20% is disapplied and reapplied at Irish 23%. Some items from Amazon.co.uk can be shipped directly from the EU so therefore import duty will not apply.

I'm open to correction on the above!

homingbird

If anyone is interested in a chinese rip off of this phone for a fraction of the price shipped from france take a look at this one.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004102101457.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000013.5.74f175193hS8RU&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreThisSeller&scm=1007.13339.274681.0&scm_id=1007.13339.274681.0&scm-url=1007.13339.274681.0&pvid=4038b4a1-1694-4548-b149-af0d270ca45f&_t=gps-id:pcDetailBottomMoreThisSeller,scm-url:1007.13339.274681.0,pvid:4038b4a1-1694-4548-b149-af0d270ca45f,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238109%231935&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000028037407963%22%2C%22sceneId%22%3A%223339%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21EUR%21%2180.74%21%21%21%21%21%402101d1bb16526068472368819ebde7%2112000028037407963%21rec

cormie

The reason I went for this phone over any other is it has the following features I wanted:

• Qualcomm unit as meant to be much better for GPS
• Wireless charging
• Wanted it recent and powerful enough so no older than 2020
• Dust and Water Proof
• Micro SD slot
• Fingerprint scanner
• Decent Battery

With these filters, there were about 22 results on GSMarena and 9 of those were variations of the S20, this seemed to be the best value and most suitable S20 so that's why I went for it :)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119065404#Comment_119065404

There is no duty on electronics.

You pay Irish vat on the original price. If delivery is free then you don't pay vat on the delivery. If delivery is £6 & they discount you the £6 then you pay vat on the £6. You pay Irish vat on the £100 discount

Del007

What's the camera like?

Mav11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119065609#Comment_119065609

Irish vat is paid on the original ex-vat base price.