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VG31 · 21-11-2020 12:31AM

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Yeah but we already pay additional VAT when buying on amazon.co.uk ?

True I didn't think of that. I'm not sure how that will work then. Buying from Amazon UK wouldn't be a big deal if only orders over €150 were affected.

21-11-2020 01:05AM

Wow never got an email so glad I checked here. I never used PW until around Christmas when PM was mental but never had a problem thankfully. Sad times.

Quackster · 21-11-2020 03:34AM

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Yeah but we already pay additional VAT when buying on amazon.co.uk ?

On items posted to Ireland, they charge Irish VAT. It's an EU thing. That'll end come January 1st. Then they'll either apply VAT-free prices and VAT will be collected on delivery by An Post etc. Or more likely, they'll still charge Irish VAT at source and handle customs-clearance and the end customer won't notice too much of a difference.

flintash · 21-11-2020 01:22PM

Quackster wrote: »

And the €22 exception will be gone come July 1st.

wait! what?! are you saying when i buy something from outside EU i have to pay vat even for 99 cent aliexpress item?

VG31 · 21-11-2020 01:38PM

flintash wrote: »

wait! what?! are you saying when i buy something from outside EU i have to pay vat even for 99 cent aliexpress item?

Yes and since you'll also have to pay An Post's €10 handling fee (or a similar fee for couriers) it will be completely uneconomical to buy cheap goods from outside the EU.

whiterebel · 21-11-2020 01:40PM

flintash wrote: »

wait! what?! are you saying when i buy something from outside EU i have to pay vat even for 99 cent aliexpress item?

Yep. No lower limit. Or they register to pay all VAT/Duty with the EU, which would save individual customs clearance charges, but will put the prices up.

gerard2210 · 21-11-2020 01:46PM

VG31 wrote: »

Yes and since you'll also have to pay An Post's €10 handling fee (or a similar fee for couriers) it will be completely uneconomical to buy cheap goods from outside the EU.

The postman will no longer be collecting the customs charges from January. Revenue/Customs or anpost will contact the customer directly to get payment before the item is released for delivery.

scamalert · 21-11-2020 01:49PM

whiterebel wrote: »

Yep. No lower limit. Or they register to pay all VAT/Duty with the EU, which would save individual customs clearance charges, but will put the prices up.

same as user above it makes no sense, been awhile since got stuff from china, but pretty sure none of em are vat registered for eu, so seems odd if one would need to pay vat+handling on say few euro items.

as even if you travel from spain canaries, theres exceptions allowed for how much booze, tobacco one can import without declaring it

whiterebel · 21-11-2020 03:30PM

scamalert wrote: »

same as user above it makes no sense, been awhile since got stuff from china, but pretty sure none of em are vat registered for eu, so seems odd if one would need to pay vat+handling on say few euro items.

as even if you travel from spain canaries, theres exceptions allowed for how much booze, tobacco one can import without declaring it

They will have to be registered by July 2021 apparently. It makes a lot of sense when you realise there are millions of small shipments a week coming into the EU and no VAT being collected.

Alcohol, perfume and tobacco are subject to Excise duty, which is the "duty free" part. Excise applies to certain products, matches, oil, and the above 3. Everything is subject to Ad Valorem (To the value) duty from outside the EU. It may be 0%, but can go to 10-15%.

Sheep Shagger · 21-11-2020 03:33PM

scamalert wrote: »

same as user above it makes no sense, been awhile since got stuff from china, but pretty sure none of em are vat registered for eu, so seems odd if one would need to pay vat+handling on say few euro items.

as even if you travel from spain canaries, theres exceptions allowed for how much booze, tobacco one can import without declaring it

Indeed - wish and aliexpress would be killed in Europe if there was no threshold.

flintash · 21-11-2020 04:06PM

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Indeed - wish and aliexpress would be killed in Europe if there was no threshold.

is this europe wide or irish initiative? anyone knows? i found pdf on revenue website, as little as i understand its only Ireland.
if they have any sort of a handling fee it will kill most of the purchases from outside EU if no handling fee it will be uneconomical to collect pennies on $1 purchases.

whiterebel · 21-11-2020 04:11PM

flintash wrote: »

is this europe wide or irish initiative? anyone knows? i found pdf on revenue website, as little as i understand its only Ireland.
if they have any sort of a handling fee it will kill most of the purchases from outside EU if no handling fee it will be uneconomical to collect pennies on $1 purchases.

It is all EU. Sweden initially wanted it introduced. I t was originally intended to come in on January 1st 2021.

flintash · 21-11-2020 04:53PM

now, that could be a game changer for me.

Quackster · 21-11-2020 06:42PM

VG31 wrote: »

Yes and since you'll also have to pay An Post's €10 handling fee (or a similar fee for couriers) it will be completely uneconomical to buy cheap goods from outside the EU.

Not necessarily as AliExpress will be able to register on I-OSS to charge VAT at source and packages from them would then skip customs on arrival.

shanec1928 · 22-11-2020 07:06PM

Nice of dpd not to bother emailing everyone one. Glad that I stumbled across this..

scamalert · 23-11-2020 11:48AM

ok the service is still usable i hope till new next year kicks off anyway.

anyone ever ordered anything and put your PWid into address field ? as had ordered from store in UK and wouldnt allow to use numbers in name or surname field so had to put it down under address as first line- never done it like that so not sure if it will be an issue.

tk123 · 23-11-2020 12:22PM

scamalert wrote: »

ok the service is still usable i hope till new next year kicks off anyway.

anyone ever ordered anything and put your PWid into address field ? as had ordered from store in UK and wouldnt allow to use numbers in name or surname field so had to put it down under address as first line- never done it like that so not sure if it will be an issue.

Yeah I do that all the time if there's enough lines eg
tk123
PW123456
DPD parcel wiz..

or if there's limited lines
tk123
DPD Parcel Wizard - PW123456

j4vier · 23-11-2020 01:17PM

Surely they would have put a notice up on their website by now if this was to happen?

sunbeam · 23-11-2020 02:40PM

j4vier wrote: »

Surely they would have put a notice up on their website by now if this was to happen?

I'm very surprised they haven't. I didn't receive any email from them either.

Edit: I just asked on live chat and they confirmed that the service will indeed be ending on December 11th.

Kamili · 23-11-2020 02:58PM

sunbeam wrote: »

I'm very surprised they haven't. I didn't receive any email from them either.

Edit: I just asked on live chat and they confirmed that the service will indeed be ending on December 11th.

No email here either. How many people will be oblivious and order stuff through them anyway?

j4vier · 23-11-2020 03:23PM

Kamili wrote: »

No email here either. How many people will be oblivious and order stuff through them anyway?

Wouldn't risk it, especially for high value items.

Still I'm supposedely not aware of this happening as i have not being informed through official communication channels so I'll keep ordering until then!

Kamili · 23-11-2020 03:29PM

j4vier wrote: »

Wouldn't risk it, especially for high value items.

Still I'm supposedely not aware of this happening as i have not being informed through official communication channels so I'll keep ordering until then!

I wouldn't risk it either but what I'm saying is that many people will order unawares the service won't accept delivery from the 11th December

dashcamdanny · 23-11-2020 03:41PM

Hi..

I have credit in my DPD account.

As they are no use for UK delivery anymore, can this be refunded?

23-11-2020 03:42PM

dashcamdanny wrote: »

Hi..

I have credit in my DPD account.

As they are no use for UK delivery anymore, can this be refunded?

"If you have an unused balance on your Virtual Address account after the service ceases, this will be refunded directly to you via SagePay before the end of January 2021. You don't need to take any action - the refund will be automated."

Padraig Mor · 23-11-2020 06:00PM

I'm flabbergasted they haven't emailed everyone - I'm a very heavy user of the service and it'll impact me big time - yet I only heard about it on Boards!

Roberto_gas · 23-11-2020 06:02PM

Getting my last UK delivery tomorrow of firetv 4k stick....will make my credit to 0 as well !

tscul32 · 23-11-2020 06:33PM

Raging here. We got the email and rang them because we've something ordered 6 weeks ago from Japan. Supposed to be here end of this month but no guarantee. Asked what happens if it arrives after 11th. Told it'll be sent back to Japan!!

scamalert · 23-11-2020 06:37PM

tscul32 wrote: »

Raging here. We got the email and rang them because we've something ordered 6 weeks ago from Japan. Supposed to be here end of this month but no guarantee. Asked what happens if it arrives after 11th. Told it'll be sent back to Japan!!

do people never read their T&Cs :cool: PW does not accept packages from outside EU, has been like that since they have setup- they wont accept any packages where vat/customs is due, even without brexit it would either end up sitting at NI customs or refused.

TetraSonic55 · 23-11-2020 06:41PM

scamalert wrote: »

do people never read their T&Cs :cool: PW does not accept packages from outside EU, has been like that since they have setup- they wont accept any packages where vat/customs is due, even without brexit it would either end up sitting at NI customs or refused.

I've had plenty of items come from outside the EU and not one of them were declined

tscul32 · 23-11-2020 06:51PM

scamalert wrote: »

do people never read their T&Cs :cool: PW does not accept packages from outside EU, has been like that since they have setup- they wont accept any packages where vat/customs is due, even without brexit it would either end up sitting at NI customs or refused.

We do usually look through t&CS but given that we registered with the when they started many years ago and were looking for uk deliveries it wouldn't have registered with us that outside EU was excluded. So them closing may not affect us either way. It was under €20 worth anyhow so no major loss. We'll just wait and see.

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