EU law is as good as UK law, we have to abide by it. In some cases EU law is stronger than UK law it can enforce things against the makers of our law.
** WHY OcUK VAT RATE TO IRELAND IS 23% !! **
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EU law is as good as UK law, we have to abide by it. In some cases EU law is stronger than UK law it can enforce things against the makers of our law.
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If you can wangle the discount/shipping to bring it more into line, I'll buy exclusively from you guys, regardless of the exchange rate. I've been happy to support ocuk to the tune of a few thousand over the years, and now that I'm actually employed fully etc, I can only imagine my spending will get a fair bit worse. 
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Great to see you looking into this Gibbo and a big thanks from both sides of the border 
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I think this here pretty much defines the OCUK Customer service.
the fact that this was even raised is more impressive than i have ever seen in any other company.
Thank you OCUK for your hard work great customer service great shop and as we all know, great forums.
From a loyal customer
Harry
Simple solution, OCUK needs to open a branch in Ireland
Well not really given the Irish customer would still be paying 23% VAT assuming the branches turnover was in excess of the threshold (which it would be judging by this very thread).
Random thought, isn't OCUK affiliated with a German retailer? (I'm not sure how it works as never paid too much attention to posts on it). So can't you put stuff through their books and get €35k at 20% and €35k at 19% before having to pay Irish rate? (assuming the people of Ireland are not buying mass amounts from Germany already).
Scots take note - you'll have to pay shipping and higher VAT when ordering from OcUK if you vote for independence again lol
They blew that chance for a good while now.
That'd be a really cool thing to do, even if you can't pull it off, thanks for at least considering it as an option.
There's plenty of other online sellers, both in UK and EU, who don't apply the Irish VAT rate yet I'd guess would go well over the limits - so it's not exactly a fair playing field for you and that I understand, so thanks again for considering the 3% discount.
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If you lads could something itd be great.
For example i was looking at buying one of your monitors. Now to buy and send to a irish address it is nearly 6% more expensive in a direct comparison. (and this isn't even touching the dire echange rate for EUR against GBP
For example i was looking at buying one of your monitors. Now to buy and send to a irish address it is nearly 6% more expensive in a direct comparison. (and this isn't even touching the dire echange rate for EUR against GBP