Re: Fw: The great Sonos revoloution

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a very standard method. When you have an account with say DHL or
Fedex or UPS you can send items anywhere and you just tick a box that
says 'bill me for all the import costs' -  although more usualy its
'bill the recipient' ;-) .  As he has an account with the shippers
HMC&E
get paid by UPS or whoever on import  and then UPS get paid by him.  You
can't do it without an account of course.  When I bought the Squeezebox
graphic displays in then on the first shipment I paid all the costs but
as they had short shipped / and some didn't work Slim Devices kindly
sent me the replacements with the 'import duties/costs' billed to them,
and even better they gave me a return authorisation number allowing me
to use their shipping carrier and tick a box billing shipping costs back
to them  - worked really well for me.

In this particular case though it seems the likely costs he will incurr
aren't covered by the extra he has added onto the price/shipping
although he may have a trade discount from Sonos to work with too ?

K

PS Still got a graphic upgrade display for a Squeezebox if anyones
interested ....

Gareth Cook wrote:

>Yes, I can see he's an eBay shop. If he pays the import duty and VAT
that
>really is impressive - that's another 25% of the price at least on top
of
>that.
>
>Just seems too perfect really. I'm assuming then he completes a special
>declaration that says "hit me with all UK charges". And would
HM&CE start
>chasing a non-UK citizen for payment ?
>
>G.
>
>