Provari Ordered

[Lilac]

Thanks Perp but wot a bloody palava....just send the fookin thing on to Aldo why can't they >

[Lilac]

CURRENT STATUS: Your item could not be delivered on August 12, 2011 at 8:32 am in GREAT BRITAIN due to payment of charges. It is being held while the addressee is notified.
Scheduled Delivery Date: undefined

So much for sending it with a value of $20 then, as they agreed to do

[safercigs]

Aug 12, 2011 16:36:24 GMT Lilac said:

CURRENT STATUS: Your item could not be delivered on August 12, 2011 at 8:32 am in GREAT BRITAIN due to payment of charges. It is being held while the addressee is notified.
Scheduled Delivery Date: undefined

So much for sending it with a value of $20 then, as they agreed to do

the postman just gave me mine no fees just handed it over

[Perpetua]

O no Lilac.

I think you and I were really lucky Daz . . . I should have paid charges, there was a big sticker on the box saying so, but it slipped through Parcel Force's system without me doing so.

[Lilac]

and i'm working all day 2moro, so i can't go collect it

wonder how much it'll be...might have known i'd get charges, i don't get off with nuffin

[clockworks]

Royal Mail handling charge is about £8, Parcelforce is about £13.

On top of that you'll pay VAT on the cost and shipping. I've heard stories of Provape putting a value of $40 on the customs form, so the VAT may be as little as £8 ($40 plus $30 shipping, IIRC). If you get stung for the full value, you might end up paying as much as £40 in total.
Whatever happens, it should end up cheaper than buying from the UK.
Sometimes the customs guys open stuff to check it, as is their right. They can then asses the value themselves, ignoring the declared value. If they over-value, you have the right to challenge their valuation.

Out of interest, did you order any batteries with it? I wonder if the customs agents pay more attention to heavier/bigger packages? I didn't have to pay charges, but I just ordered the basic Provari plus the end cap.

[Lilac]

I ordered 3 18650 batts as well as the end cap & Provari Steve

[blakey]

Aug 12, 2011 16:36:24 GMT Lilac said:

CURRENT STATUS: Your item could not be delivered on August 12, 2011 at 8:32 am in GREAT BRITAIN due to payment of charges. It is being held while the addressee is notified.
Scheduled Delivery Date: undefined

So much for sending it with a value of $20 then, as they agreed to do

That's exactly where mine is now, Never had to import like this before so what happens now? do they send me a letter informing me of the charge and get me to agree before they send it to me or do they just deliver and ask for the payment?
What a right royal pain in the ass
JUST SEND ME MY PROVARI YA BUGGAS >

[VE Jason]

If it's at your local sorting office, just take the tracking number and some ID and you can pay the charges and collect it.

Otherwise, they will send you a charge notice, you ring up and pay it and they deliver the next day.

[blakey]

Aug 13, 2011 7:52:41 GMT VE Jason said:

If it's at your local sorting office, just take the tracking number and some ID and you can pay the charges and collect it.

Otherwise, they will send you a charge notice, you ring up and pay it and they deliver the next day.

I had it sent to my work address, Buggered if I know where the local sorting office is for that place and buggered if I'm gonna get the time to get there >
Can see this degenerating into an expensive mess

[VE Jason]

Try putting your tracking number into the Parcelforce site, it may tell you which sorting office has it.

www2.parcelforce.com/

[Perpetua]

O dear Blakey.

Can you find the phone number for the sorting office that has it? I think you can pay by card over the phone and then have it delivered.

[blakey]

Aug 13, 2011 8:19:46 GMT Perpetua said:

O dear Blakey.

Can you find the phone number for the sorting office that has it? I think you can pay by card over the phone and then have it delivered.

No Idea Exactly who has it perpy, all it says on the RM website is Held but no location. Will have to wait for the letter and take it from there.
Any one got any spare luck they can loan me? lol

[blakey]

Had a bit of a heated discussion on the phone with a poor sod at parcel force, FOUND IT lol, can pick it up on my way in to work, £24 charge though- Thieving Bustads!

[lynwlt]

Customs Clearance, August 12, 2011, 11:26 pm, GREAT BRITAIN

Well, that's where mine is..

A year ago, a friend of mine in USA sent me a painting she had done of my garden. She had to put a "value" on it before sending so she put $50.

I had no idea what she was sending and just got a notification that it was waiting for me at a special Custom and Excise parcel place in the middle of nowhere.

I finally found the place, handed over the little card, paid £36 (!!!!!) and then received the box.

They hadn't opened the parcel, which was quite large, but had just based their charges on the value that my friend had declared.

As it happens, the painting is priceless to me.....

I'm not sure that any tube built to contain a battery is worth more than $20 to the majority of the population.

I certainly don't want to have to go find that last place again. Even Mungo found boredom that day.

I don't mind too much if I have to pay VAT but I certainly don't want to drive 40 miles for the privilege of doing so...

Having said that, when I placed my order, I was told there was a 2 week wait and yet it was posted the very next day!

Lynda