What are people's experiences with import tax and duty on imported GPUs?

I kill Bunnies · 23 Feb 2021 at 10:12

It looks going abroad is the best chance of grabbing a 30x0 GPU at a decent price and I have seen places in Taiwan occasionally selling these. With Brexit causing all manner of complications I wondered if anyone knew the likely add on fees for say a €800 GPU from either within the EU or Asia?

Brutal biff · 23 Feb 2021 at 10:15

Pull your pants down bend over and pray they spit 1st

philo-sofa · 23 Feb 2021 at 11:06

Brutal biff said:
Pull your pants down bend over and pray they spit 1st

pp111 · 23 Feb 2021 at 11:06

Rule Britannia and all that means that the EU is now no different to any other country. You now have to pay tax and import duty on ALL items coming in the UK so it's an additional 23.5% roughly, plus processing charge usually of £10. That applies to ebay items as it does all shop and supplier items. It may also be delayed by customs. If you are going to buy abroad it is better to use a company that sorts all that lot out for you like the jungle.

Jay85 · 23 Feb 2021 at 12:09

pp111 said:
Rule Britannia and all that means that the EU is now no different to any other country. You now have to pay tax and import duty on ALL items coming in the UK so it's an additional 23.5% roughly, plus processing charge usually of £10. That applies to ebay items as it does all shop and supplier items. It may also be delayed by customs. If you are going to buy abroad it is better to use a company that sorts all that lot out for you like the jungle.

About right this, i bought a waterblock from watercool.de for £200ish. Got slapped with around £50 worth of tax/duty and £12 on processing fees.

Even though i ordered it before new year, it wasn't shipped till after in late January so got slapped pretty hard.

Roguey000 · 23 Feb 2021 at 13:10

I wouldnt be keen on buying cards from other counties; you probably end up paying the same after fees but would have no warranty at all. If the card dies, atleast you have some backup from a local seller.

Dontrocktheboat · 23 Feb 2021 at 15:28

Brutal biff said:
Pull your pants down bend over and pray they spit 1st

At least we got control of our borders and our fish, I say!!!!!!!!!

Spudgun · 23 Feb 2021 at 15:50

This gets expensive far more quickly than you would expect - I'm not sure i'd buy from overseas any more unless there was a substantial discount even after applying the taxes and processing fees

Janer64 · 23 Feb 2021 at 16:09

I'm in Ireland and I ordered from an English PC builder company b4 Jan 1st when Brexit came into effect and it took SEVEN weeks to get here but the company which are totally legit handled the paperwork a certain wau and I wasn't hot for a cent extra, UPS delivered it.
I do understand from Irisg forums that I was very very lucky.

Legionaire68 · 23 Feb 2021 at 16:21

pp111 said:
Rule Britannia and all that means that the EU is now no different to any other country. You now have to pay tax and import duty on ALL items coming in the UK so it's an additional 23.5% roughly, plus processing charge usually of £10. That applies to ebay items as it does all shop and supplier items. It may also be delayed by customs. If you are going to buy abroad it is better to use a company that sorts all that lot out for you like the jungle.

It's anything over €150 you have to pay tax on.
I have ordered a waterblock from Germany and a load of fittings from Slovenia in the last couple of weeks without any extra cost.

Waiting for a 6800xt Nitro+ block and some other bits that are over €150 but off a UK website with UK vat paid so I'll update when that's here later in the week.

henson0115 · 23 Feb 2021 at 16:25

likely cheaper to go abroad than to buy 1 here

but goodluck returning it if you have an issue.

pp111 · 23 Feb 2021 at 18:04

Legionaire68 said:
It's anything over €150 you have to pay tax on.
I have ordered a waterblock from Germany and a load of fittings from Slovenia in the last couple of weeks without any extra cost.

Waiting for a 6800xt Nitro+ block and some other bits that are over €150 but off a UK website with UK vat paid so I'll update when that's here later in the week.

That will be fine. I bought a PSU from Corsair for £200 recently and that shipped from the Netherlands I think. No extra paid because of course they sorted all that out.

D4N · 23 Feb 2021 at 19:21

Dontrocktheboat said:
At least we got control of our borders and our fish, I say!!!!!!!!!

And we can have bendy bananas!

Electronic Punk · 24 Feb 2021 at 09:31

Not a one way street either, my parents sent £50 worth of Peppa Pig toys from the UK to Denmark in early January, DPD returned it because I dunno they didn't know how shipping works.
They resent it via the Post Office I had to pay £30 in handling (fixed fee of nearly £20 from Postnord) and tax (which they also either increased the value or included shipping) for it to be released after 11 days.

They sent a package for Christmas a few weeks before, it arrived in 3 days with no additional charges.

Shipping to and from Europe is just stupid right now. Don't even bother with Ama*** UK now, fortunately Ama*** Germany is a thing, although they don't honour Prime outside Germany. Shame as I would have liked to see one of those new OcUK mousemats.

Gavster · 24 Feb 2021 at 09:50

Jay85 said:
About right this, i bought a waterblock from watercool.de for £200ish. Got slapped with around £50 worth of tax/duty and £12 on processing fees.

Even though i ordered it before new year, it wasn't shipped till after in late January so got slapped pretty hard.

I got my EK block from a Dutch supplier ordered mid December and fortunately they shipped it before January as it was in stock and I didn`t have any extra charges.

I also think it depends on the courier, I had an £11 part come from the States and thanks to DHL`s charges it cost me nearly £30, only £6 import duty and the rest was some sort of fabricated risk charge that you don`t get back, as they pay up front it covers their costs in case you don`t pay up and collect :mad:

CuriousTomCat · 24 Feb 2021 at 10:18

The UK is applying for a trade deal with Canada, Japan and Australia which might help?

andybird123 · 24 Feb 2021 at 10:41

Jay85 said:
About right this, i bought a waterblock from watercool.de for £200ish. Got slapped with around £50 worth of tax/duty and £12 on processing fees.

Even though i ordered it before new year, it wasn't shipped till after in late January so got slapped pretty hard.

its worth checking, if you paid before brexit but it was shipped after, you probably paid .de VAT and then got slapped with UK VAT as well, the shop should be able to refund you the .de VAT because effectively they shouldn't have charged you it on an export

andybird123 · 24 Feb 2021 at 10:43

CuriousTomCat said:
The UK is applying for a trade deal with Canada, Japan and Australia which might help?

trade deals remove import DUTY, but not VAT, so you will always end up paying at least 20% on imports plus a "handling fee", plus computer parts in Canada and Australia tend to be more expensive anyway, so not sure that will help at all

if you are going to be buying PC parts and want a cheap price then basically you are looking at importing from China, and then bye bye warranty

Game · 24 Feb 2021 at 11:08

anything over £135 you will be paying VAt from the eu and maybe an admin fee

the same pretty much applies from the rest of the world

but... I have bought items before and the sellers have included no invoice and one even put a birthday card in the box for me

mattyfc · 24 Feb 2021 at 11:33

Game said:
anything over £135 you will be paying VAt from the eu and maybe an admin fee

the same pretty much applies from the rest of the world

but... I have bought items before and the sellers have included no invoice and one even put a birthday card in the box for me

Human ingenuity eh...