Navionics Gold Maps

[JohnK]

Has anyone experience of buying these abroad?
USA dollar price = UK Sterling price......



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[marchhare]

I bought a raymarine 435 from US at a very good price, worth the effort, but the navionics chart when duties paid was not worth the difference in price. Approx £220 here in the UK, paid about £195/200 from the US.

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[hamishb]

Is plotter hardware identical from the US vs UK or are there any spec / connection / other differences ? I have been looking at the Navman 5500 or 5600 and have noticed that the US $ price = UK $ price. How does the duty thing work ? Is this compulsory ?
Also .... is it a global warranty ?


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[andyball]

Hardware seems the same in many cases- "world base map" may be only US where there is one.

Warranty often is return to seller or manufacturer (NZ for navman)



Duty if you get stung is vat + import duty on the total cost incl. carriage (say x 1.25 at most). some large carriers will demand the duty (+ their own extra handling fee) before you get the goods;

heard it said here that if uk leg is the post office you're more likely to escape a bill, but some US sites say the parcel will be delivered to your nearest customs office awaiting your collection & payment; also other threads here mention getting bills from C&E weeks & more after receipt of parcel

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[Talbot]

Bought my Navman 5500 and English Channel C-Map chip 2 years ago in Florida. Brought it back through Customs and declared it, - had to pay some but nowhere near as much as += UK price. World map on machine is a world map! been very happy with it.

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[arctura]

Just bought Raymarine RC400 with Navionics gold charts from Boatfix.com in New Jersey. First rate service - they arrived before Raymarine UK said it was available!

No duty was asked for, but inspection of the Customes and Exise site showed that duty at 3.7% on cost plus shipping should have been paid, and then 17.5% VAT on the lot.

Yes price was the £ price in $, at 1.72 to the £ on VIsa.

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[gjgm]

just been looking at the same myself. Seems charts arent any better price( although doesnt seem easy to find much outside USA on the web). Plotters are cheaper, and if I regularly travelled to States, and so could return it if faulty,I d be tempted. But I didnt conclude the saving was worth the trouble of being without the unit for goodness knows how long, and trying to sort it out with a dealer on the other side of the globe, if a fault did develop. Not unreasonably, it seems the authorised dealers here in some products are not very enthusiastic to help when you ve deliberately avoided some of their margin that goes towards providing the support service!

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[rogerthebodger]

I Am interested in the UK customs web site that gives duties
Could you please give me the URL

Thanks in advance

Roger Shaw

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[arctura]

The C&E site is http://www.hmce.gov.uk/business/importing/tariff/tariff.htm but this just explains what the 'Tarriff' is - and that you can buy it for ££££.

But it is available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/dds/en/tarhome.htm

Look for GPS in the search index.

Both are hard work! Goog luck!

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