Buying from US

[Dave_Knowles]

Hi,

I want to buy a Raymarine sports autopilot and they are about £150.00 less than here if I buy from US. What import duty problems will I try and import one.


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[Talbot]

In the past I have looked at raymarine stuff from the states, and when you factor in duty and carriage it works out more expensive than you can get here at normal RRP. I bought an autopilot from <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.datayacht.sagenet.co.uk/products.htm>Datayacht </A> at Lymington at considerably less than RRP after requesting a quote from abt 20 different Raymarine suppliers.

Navman stuff on the otherhand, works out quite a bit cheaper.

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[bedouin]

This has been covered before but allow

17.5% VAT
about 10% Duty
£30-£50 handling charge for the collection of the above by the shipper.

Highly unlikely to be worthwhile for Raymarine kit that is made in EU

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[charles_reed]

You can expect to add 24% to the $US price for VAT, import duty and shipping.

Unless the $ price is the same or smaller than the £ price you'll be unlikely to save much money, despite the strong £ to $. Also the charts supplied with the unit are likely to be for the US rather than Europe.

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[pvb]

Spooky coincidence...

There's one on eBay now - see <A target="_blank" HREF=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1296&item=2483681028&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW>here</A> for details.

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[Dave_Knowles]

Re: Spooky coincidence...

Thanks for the info.

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