CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
Well-Known Member
I wonder how many of the people who are having problems with ordering/receiving/sending packages and cost escalation, voted for brexit.
I'm delighted to report that my AIS arrived having only incurred Irish VAT @21% +DHL's €10 handling charge.
Cactus Navigation's webshop has an option to select your location, and when it is non-UK, VAT is not included, so an item initially costing € 455 (£400) net cost me in total €580 (£507). The new arrangement means that every purchase now automatically costs me the €10 handling charge plus the full cost of international carriage instead of being able to avail of cheap or free UK postage + the €3.95 fee for use of the Irish Post Office's UK address service.
I will no longer be able to use this service to get around the problem of some UK sellers not being willing to mail to Ireland.
SVB.de seem to have the lowest prices in the EU, but still not low enough.
No problem. Glad to have been of assistanceYou can thank all the people who voted to leave.
Yes you have the usual value free. For our drive I will rig up the new boat solars as if they were my camper van fixtures. The antifoul paint will have bits of old paint around the rim etc. The main issue is that if we have to pay then we are on the spot and it should be simple and ( hopefully ) not too bureaucratic !!Without reading the entire thread, may i ask if one can carry personal items up to a certain value duty free, would it not be worth loading the car up & driving to the port in Spain. Having never done it ( or wanted to) I wonder, if it is only short term, a full car load might be an economical way to travel. Especially, if split between 2 or more people. One can take all the tools one needs & bring them back easily enough without worrying about something getting lost en-route.
Yes, the carriage was approx €21 and the couriers' handling charge was € 10.That's good Info! so carriage cost you around €30? and the VAT more or less balanced itself out. (except 1%).( but a few quid more into the Irish kitty rather than into the Crowns coffers is always a good thing)
I want an echomax RTE and a class b+ AIS, at least one of these will probably come from Cactus ( I was a bit pee-ed off at my own stupidity in not getting these before Christmas...
Mareshop.eu I found cheap for stuff in the past (Fenders and that type of stuff) or Marine Parts Direct .ie
It's the fee that the card company charges the retailer.. currently about 0.2%.Be aware that Credit card Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.
Whether we purchase goods from UK or from EU, US or China, we will have to pay much more than before from now on.