Buying options (post Brexit)

Lazy Bhoy wrote: »

I have had the exact opposite experience on Amazon with 3rd party sellers over the past few years. Especially when buying computer parts.


It remains to be seen if Amazon will ever open an Irish webfront. They havent bothered with any other smaller countries yet and I don't think that we will be any different. If they ever do decide to do it. It will be interesting to see how the 3rd party sellers respond to an Irish webfront. I am not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen so in the meantime I will keep looking for German options which appear to be a bit cheaper than options in other countries like France and Spain.

Yeah, I'd be thinking along these lines as well tbh. Even looking at the difference of the films etc available on UK Amazon accounts versus here is a little insight into how difficult things can be to arrange. Generally I find we can piggy back these things off the UK out of ignorance mainly (Ireland is part of Great Britain right?) but if they were to get properly formalised I think there could be a few difficulties. And with such a small population (Belgium has 2.5x ours) they mightn't rush to do it alright.

We have Apple's European headquarters here and there's no Apple store in the whole republic? There's one in Belfast so wtf really.

Going to have to start being more European imo and looking to mainland Europe shops first which might be easy enough if they cater better for us. Supposed to be against EU regs to refuse to ship to other union states yet lots of German retailers don't (Mindfactory does for "entrepreneurs" :rolleyes:, guess that means registered businesses) so they'll have to sort that out. Simple measure of just listing prices before VAT surely (which is a better way to do it anyway - the state just doesn't want people to see how much they collect off your purchase ) unless it's then a ballache for the German co. to then owe Irish revenue, again might not be worth it if the sales volume isn't there.

Mucashinto wrote: »

They'll be no customs between the North & South here though right? So Parcel Motel will still be an option (classic "Irish solution to an Irish problem". Suddenly the number of cars, or something, sold in Northern Ireland goes up 200k in a year ).

Never feel too good using them with big ticket items but outside of being on the hook for shipping costs if you need to return something it could carry on relatively normally, with just their extra fee to factor into the cost maybe.

I really hope Parcel Motel will still be good.

I get some stuff done via Saxoprint in the UK, and they ship UK only.

Also if they're still good, I'll still be able to avail of the lovely PC places in the UK.

I'm currently waiting on a Ryzen 5950X bundle from SCAN, and I really hope I get it before January.

Imagine getting slapped for VAT and customs on a €2000 order you placed in early November 2020.

wozniattack wrote: »

I really hope Parcel Motel will still be good.

I'm guessing really, but yeah I hope so. They seem to be trying to avoid any issues here, at least at the moment, but who knows I suppose. I think there was talk of farmers here that sell all their beef to the UK could set up a place in NI easily enough with our soft-border agreements and then just ship out of Belfast rather than Dublin and problem solved. So there'll be a lot of stuff going on I guess, enthusiast PC parts mightn't be at the top of the agenda

Coyler wrote: »

I'm willing to bet that Irish Customs knows all about Parcel Motel and what address is attached to what mailbox. Revenue and Customs are on the ball these days.

PM should set up a straw man figure (say Mr Pat Motel) and everything gets delivered to him. He then decides of his own volition to sell to us within our customs-free zone at a €3.95 markup.

Ignorant question but what ever happened hardversand.de it was the go to place for components when i was building a PC 10 years or so ago .

Places like OcUK have been charging 21% VAT for a while already now.

I do like SCAN, and currently have a full Ryzen 5950X upgrade bundle on pre-order with them, and I also use Saxoprint in the UK to get stuff via Parcelmotel.

The Brits really are at it again. Going to be a damn pain.

Hyzepher wrote: »

The only way shopping in UK will remain anyway viable is if UK retailers dont charge VAT for exports. If they do continue to charge VAT then unfortunately that wont stop customs/revenue from adding it again when it comes into Ireland.

Not to mention afaik customs/an post will add a €10 flat fee just for the trouble of opening a package