Did Brexit kill AlieExpress?

Roadrunner_668 · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:25

what on earth ha ha

jpaul · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:34

touch said:
I've no idea how their tax is done but most of the time if you select an item to be dispatched from one of those warehouses the price is higher so I'd guess they might be paying some extra tax on it.

foir the small <£15 items I thought china post still had a very preferential shipping/postage rate into the UK (maybe via hk), a lost leader for royal mail ;
aliexpress items I've bought always have the correct customs label though, and, have never purchased at >£15 real value.

Diddums · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:35

Roadrunner_668 said:
what on earth ha ha

Your posts are screaming "mm access pls" - I'd make it less obvious if I were you

Marky · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:39

It's going to push prices up for consumers here, that's a guarantee.

Hagar · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:44

Marky said:
It's going to push prices up for consumers here, that's a guarantee.

Buying cheap is not illegal, evading tax is illegal. So if your increased consumer price is at the cost of reducing tax evasion that is a good thing. For the economy and the consumer.

Roadrunner_668 · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:44

Diddums said:
Your posts are screaming "mm access pls" - I'd make it less obvious if I were you

what access ?

i just thought the presumably fake newspaper thing was funny ha ha

neocon · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:45

Well that's pretty lame, a £100 Android tablet is now £120. Thanks brexiteers.

I keep seeing ' this product can't be shipped to the selected region'.

Hagar · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:47

neocon said:
Well that's pretty lame, a £100 Android tablet is now £120. Thanks brexiteers.

You are welcome. But read post #45 above.

chroniclard · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:51

Roadrunner_668 said:
what access ?

i just thought the presumably fake newspaper thing was funny ha ha

As far as I know its a legit Sunday Sport Online "article".

B@Th*nG · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:51

cainer said:
The EU is also scrapping their low value tax exemption of 22 Euros in July this year so it was probably going to happen brexit or not

but, to expand a little, were it not for Brexit I would still be able to buy, say, vinyl records from Europe and not pay ANOTHER tax on them?

Roadrunner_668 · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:55

chroniclard said:
As far as I know its a legit Sunday Sport Online "article".

ah if its the sunday sport that pretty much explains it lol

Psycho Sonny · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:56

neocon said:
Well that's pretty lame, a £100 Android tablet is now £120. Thanks brexiteers.

I keep seeing ' this product can't be shipped to the selected region'.

That's nothing the robot vacuum I was going to get last month for £150 is now £300 I'm better off going on eBay it's now £260 on there.

However I knew I should have bought it back in November/December

neocon · 4 Jan 2021 at 14:59

Psycho Sonny said:
That's nothing the robot vacuum I was going to get last month for £150 is now £300 I'm better off going on eBay it's now £260 on there.

However I knew I should have bought it back in November/December

Why's it double?

StriderX · 4 Jan 2021 at 15:06

Never used it and never planned to.

That said, I will continue to find it endlessly confusing why right-wingers who value a free-market seem fine with trade barriers and taxation.

jpaul · 4 Jan 2021 at 15:12

Psycho Sonny said:
That's nothing the robot vacuum I was going to get last month for £150 is now £300 I'm better off going on eBay it's now £260 on there.

if, with the £260 they are anticipating the duty/vat/handling charge the courier will blackmail you for, the price will be on par with £300

Marky · 4 Jan 2021 at 15:13

Hagar said:
Buying cheap is not illegal, evading tax is illegal. So if your increased consumer price is at the cost of reducing tax evasion that is a good thing. For the economy and the consumer.

In a perfect world, yes.

Tephnos · 4 Jan 2021 at 15:24

Just means less spending for me overall. Oh well.

neocon · 4 Jan 2021 at 15:27

Tephnos said:
Just means less spending for me overall. Oh well.

Same, but HMRC doesn't care either I guess.

I only bought stuff on there for fun and not available elsewhere. It's a shame

The Running Man · 4 Jan 2021 at 16:02

neocon said:
Same, but HMRC doesn't care either I guess.

I only bought stuff on there for fun and not available elsewhere. It's a shame

Now you can buy British value add stuff instead of directly funding the Chinese industry.

Pawnless Endgame · 4 Jan 2021 at 16:06

StriderX said:
Never used it and never planned to.

Me neither. I've known the name "AlieExpress" for years and for some reason, I always thought that it was a search engine, not a place where you buy from!