ILikeBoats wrote: » So is it just a matter of cancelling your .co.uk prime and setting up a .de/.es/.fr prime or can you transfer your membership?
keyboard_cat wrote: » As someone who buys a lot from Amazon I do find it baffling that they have not setup an Irish site (or at least offered prime benefits to Ireland from a different European country. But on the flip side it will probably force me to buy more from Irish retailers, I just hope Irish retailers take advantage of the situation and start creating proper web stores and offering decent delivery times and customer service. I don’t want to wait two weeks to get something delivered within Ireland and then get no response when I ask why it’s taking so long (Brown Thomas)
sdanseo wrote: » At the moment it's €10 for a very small number of shipments (comparative to the total at least). Customs processes will be simplified and the volume of them will dictate much better working practices reducing the labour cost. In most logistics operations including mine where EU makes up the overwhelming majority customs is a rare exception to the rule. We've been mass training all staff for months so instead of one person getting a rake of awkward calls when something lands from Turkey or Switzerland, every staff member will clear their own shipments. Scale makes this no longer a specialty service, and so the price overall per clearance can go down. An Post are no different. They have already lost a huge Amazon contract because Amazon can do it better themselves. They'll want to be competitive. Amazon no doubt in time will have all this done in house and in a slightly longer period will simply fulfill all Irish orders (or at least, the vast majority of popular items) from and Irish or other EU FC. Enter Prime Air stage right. 2 jets already leased for Europe and many more to follow no doubt. Right, but you become liable for Irish VAT unless exempt when the goods arrive here. And more importantly you have a VAT number; or are you using your PPS number as a VAT number? (sole trader) it's not something Amazon currently offer consumers, is my point.
The Continental Op wrote: » I'm getting Friday the 18th on a couple of things I ordered yesterday but its been 24 hours and they haven't been shipped yet (Prime) so I wonder if its a bit slow at the Amazon end.
Knine wrote: » Anything I ordered is still showing as 2 day
VG31 wrote: » I'm not sure why you'd bother. If you want prime video you'd be better off just signing up for that by itself.
insert name here 123 wrote: » Which company is best and most reliable, when using a virtual address (when ordering from amazon UK etc.. ) Parcel motel? DPD? An post?
sweetie wrote: » DPD is gone this week, addresspal is 6.50 and i've only used it twice. Parcelmotel has always been good for me but other's have had items lost.
Harry Palmr wrote: » I wonder how ready revenue.ie is for this they are about to get a multiple of their usual declarations.
andrewfaulk wrote: » The €10 handling fee for customs won't be reduced, it's already very low.. I'm sure the company you work for is probably charging at least 3 to 4 times more .. It may be new to your team(sounds like EU road freight), but a lot of forwarders(I have worked for 2 across all modes of transport) would have been working on more like a 50%/50% split between EU and Non-EU up to now.. So there is a pool of people customs trained, however this pool will be far too small to handle the volumes of customs entries required post Jan 1st. If anything the demand and salaries for customs clearance trained individuals is going to increase(I have heard of at least 2 people moving to customs roles for much higher salaries in the past week alone) Also to bear in mind is that a customs clearance isn't always a simple procedure that requires 5 mins.. There can be a lot of checking up on regulations, arranging BIPS or customs exams, arranging T1 discharge or removal to bond that means the average would be 5 clearances per hour.. You can train someone from scratch to do basic clearances, but having someone who ACTUALLY knows how to do the full gambit of customs clearances can take 2-3 years..
d51984 wrote: » Im in Dublin 5 and still getting options for 1 and 2 day shipping. Feel the pain for people outside Dublin.
sdanseo wrote: » You're not wrong. Customs training is the hot commodity for the last while. We've been lucky in only dealing with non-EU as the exception to the rules but are spot on, where I am is pretty much EU dedicated. Teams dealing with Air and Ocean have been flat out sharing their knowledge and of course new people being brought in. It's a case of getting as many people to the basic level needed but also slowly building on the "experts" which for sure will take longer. As I understand it simplified procedures will allow clearances to be done more quickly but from the relative few I have done, for the current process 5/hr sounds pretty correct. That will need to increase. No company dealing with the UK in any significant volume could sustain even a fraction of their current business if each agent was only processing 40 clearances a day. I'm seeing the same, in fact almost anything I've looked at seems to have a better ETA than would have been normal before. Some items which are delivered by AP are getting a deliberately longer lead time (and echoed by a text from AP saying delivery in up to 3 working days when it lands in DMC).. but tends to be invariably delivered the next day and so is well early vs. the initial prediction. 2-3 days is still the average.
mrcheez wrote: » Farewell old friend
jmlad2020 wrote: » The pale is alive and well. British colony
Joziburg wrote: » Does Amazon not already do some adjustment for VAT, I’ve noticed items change slightly in value at the final checkout stage.
