GetDigitized
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Yeah...The GBP to JPY rate has been tanking for the past 2 months. Was great around August-Nov ~_~
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Cheap Arse Gaffer |Europe| Cheap, Calm, and Carry On
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Uh, looks like I may be converting my money for my trip sooner than planned.... Imported an orange one from play-asia which deals in dollars mind. Wasn't so bad.
Ah well, only vita release I'm waiting on atm is Digimon Asia physical.
That's why i don't bother using express shipping options when ordering from companies who don't mark down. Just isn't worth the risk. Fedex charge about 10 quid for them sorting the customs. Considering i never buy anything expensive anyway, that's generally three times the cost of the VAT itself. >.>
YianGaruga
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I only use Fed Ex when I know that getting the game much earlier is worth an extra 15€ to me. Otherwise I'm just fine with waiting for airmail.
Yeah I heard before that this works, never tried it myself though
just be aware of what the charge is
is it customs fee (you are legally bound by this)
if it is their fee you do not have to pay this, and dont be fooled into thinking you do, I have NEVER paid this fee and always send a email explaining my contract was with play asia and not them so I suggest they seek redress for that fee with play asia, but you MUST pay the customs fees
GetDigitized
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Yeah I just went Japan for new years, was not impressed >< .
Where'd you get it from - I'm looking for it as well, only VGP & play-asia have it from what I can see.
GetDigitized
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I've been hit once,i had to pay the fee before they delivered. They combined both fees into one - this was rm btw. Do they just say ok if you tell them that?
Edit- sorry for double posting ><
Yes, Royal Mail screw you over and wont deliver until you pay so you are stuffed, but Fed-Ex dont, they send you a bill which adds a admin fee, this is not your responsibilty, you did not sign a contract with them, I will give you the letter I sent and edit it to your own circumstances (you MUST pay the custom fees though)
BTW it always works, they will always clear the fee
Dear Fedex,
After having bought a present for my wife from Asia I was surprised to receive an invoice from you for VAT and clearance administration charges.
After having consulted my lawyer about the issue I agreed to pay the VAT, since Asia is not in the EU.
However, I refuse to pay the clearance admin charge since at no point was I made aware of, nor did I agree to, any terms and conditions which clearly stated that I would be liable for any such charges.
At no point in the transaction and subsequent delivery was any contract for a clearance administration charge made between Fedex and myself.
I understand that the supplier (PlayAsia) state on their website that they are not responsible for custom brokerage fees but I was not made party to the agreement between the supplying company in Asia and Fedex and, thus, entered into no contracts for any explicit charges with Fedex. I paid PlayAsia for delivery in good faith and no agreement between Fedex and myself exists.
If you want to pursue further charges for delivery or administration or the terms upon which goods are shipped, I suggest that you take it up with the organisation that hired you.
Therefore, I have paid the sum of £9.21 on the invoice (by phone) and hereby request that you cancel the remaining sum of £10.00 on the invoice for the clearance administration charge.
Please let me know when this has been done.
Regards,
Thanks for that letter. 
I've just checked one of my Play Asia preorders which is worth £78.00 plus £16.00 shipping fee & it says FedEx Eco. When I placed the order I think it mentioned having to use a courier due to the value of the item.
Does this mean that I will get a fee from FedEx but I can use that letter to just pay customs?
I've just checked one of my Play Asia preorders which is worth £78.00 plus £16.00 shipping fee & it says FedEx Eco. When I placed the order I think it mentioned having to use a courier due to the value of the item.
Does this mean that I will get a fee from FedEx but I can use that letter to just pay customs?
Yeah, I've done that before.
Doesn't work with any courier that holds your parcel for ransom until you pay up though.
YesThanks for that letter.
I've just checked one of my Play Asia preorders which is worth £78.00 plus £16.00 shipping fee & it says FedEx Eco. When I placed the order I think it mentioned having to use a courier due to the value of the item.
Does this mean that I will get a fee from FedEx but I can use that letter to just pay customs?
Yeah, I preordered from Play Asia back when they announced it. Considered switching to vgp since I have a better track record with them and customs.
Yeah, I've done that before.
Doesn't work with any courier that holds your parcel for ransom until you pay up though.
Yes
yep I ordered a watch from US and Royal Mail refused to release it until I paid for the fees, but fortunately RM are the only couriers I believe who hold goods pending payment
Thanks for that letter.
I've just checked one of my Play Asia preorders which is worth £78.00 plus £16.00 shipping fee & it says FedEx Eco. When I placed the order I think it mentioned having to use a courier due to the value of the item.
Does this mean that I will get a fee from FedEx but I can use that letter to just pay customs?
yes
but please dont try to get out of the custom fees... you will get a letter, then email them my letter
Cheeseman Battitude
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I might happen to browse ye olde Shoppe of Two to be checkings this out. Thank you, kind sire.
Well, they own Parcel Force so them too. Which sucks because anything EMS goes through RM/PF.
DHL might hold it. They had an area which you paid the charges through a web portal, and it mentioned they may hold it pending charges. That said, their "fee" wasn't that bad since they seemed to do it percentage based rather than a flat fee. So I paid it through the site while it was still being transported.
Some of the cheaper DHL international options just go through Royal Mail anyway. -.-
Not received anything from UPS outside of Europe, so not sure about them.
I've ordered from them several times and no problems whatsoever.
yes
Cool, thanks guys. I'll certainly pay customs fees.
Stallion Dan
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UPS do too. Learned that the hard way when bought something from Gamestop US.
You can actually do the customs handling yourself which is much cheaper and tell royal mail/UPS/whoever to piss off because it's already paid and you didn't ask them, you'll need show a receipt.
Funny thing is if they already paid on your behalf they'll still hand it over, but if you haven't paid and say you will they'll hold you ransom. The implication being you're dishonest.
Well, most of us are being dishonest if we can skip import charges, but screw them for implying it.
Ah thats a good point actually, yeah. I remember getting some replacement RAM from the US about 8 yearsish ago and they/UPS charged me for it. Was on the phone hours because we'd already paid VAT when we originally bought the RAM in the UK.
In the end I just had to pay and the company I bought from in the UK compensated us for it.
Doesn't doing it yourself tend to require a lot of paperwork?
TheMoon
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They are only Nordic versions if they are labeled as such. You'll get UK versions.
Stallion Dan
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Keep in mind I've not done this for many years, but it used to be you need request 'goods to be declared by importer' be attached to the parcel, then when it arrives in UK you'll get sent some forms, which you fill in and send back. They may give you a way to do it online now.
Then you get billed for the VAT (and customs duty if item is over £134 or so) and after paying the item is released to royal mail or whoever.
It really depends if you want to gamble paying the VAT or not, lots of items slip by, but when you get hit for ~£4 VAT plus £8-12 'handling fee' on a £20 item it sucks balls.
Also, this obviously delays the item reaching you.
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Also, keep a receipt handy, as I mentioned in my last post they sometimes pay on your behalf anyway and still try and bill you, even if you did all this yourself, so have a receipt handy incase they are incompetent and do this.
foobarry81
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I've been told that at least my country's customs department really dislikes 'civilians' declaring their packages themselves and that they will indeed 'not prioritize' looking into your paperwork.
Stallion Dan
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I cannot imagine why, so many parcels slip through without paying (due to sheer volume) I'd have thought they would encourage people to be honest and pay up themselves. In UK anyway, maybe you don't get as many imports.
foobarry81
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The way it works here is that our national courier (our local Royal Mail) has "on-site" customs agents (they're employees of the company with a special license, not actual employees of the government). All packages that enter the country through the warehouse of the national courier are scanned based on size and price on the invoice. All larger packages are opened and inspected by default, the smaller packages are sorted based on the price on the invoice attached to the package.
Anything that is VAT due (€22 and up) will be declared by those "on-site" customs agents to the customs department. They fill out all the forms, pay the amount that is due to customs. Then VAT and the declaration fee is charged back to the recipient.
charmed699
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Donkey Kong Country Returns on 3DS for £12.99 at Argos. Managed to order a copy. Looking forward to playing it.
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3DS
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3DS
Dash Kappei
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This same bundle is EUR 139/£106 with 3 Lego games and 8gb card iirc on tgames.it but I'm not sure they ship to UK.
So yeah, £74 less than Argo's, not bad
Lord British
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Superb game at a superb price.
XP_version2
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Don't think so, only option for country when trying to check out is Italy.
kuroneko0509
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at least fedex admin charge is cheaper than parcelshit =3=
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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Got a reservation for that donkey kong, cheers. My £8 majoras mask shipped yesterday as well, should have it today or tomorrow apparently.
Hmmm, that's a really good deal and I may be able to make that work. Getting married in Italy later this year so I may shoot the wedding planner an email and see if she'd be open to taking delivery of one and forwarding it onto me. Thanks for the heads up!
FantasticMrSnake
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Same here, only that it will arrive this week (I'm in UK), but Luigi's says in amazon at the moment of purchase that usually takes up to 2 months to dispatch -__-.
Stereogatari
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Hi guys. A few days ago a deal was discussed.
Amazon IT
Uncharted 4 special edition
Price is 60
Amazon IT have an offer atm. Buy 50 giftcard and get 10 gift card for free. So essentially making the price 50.
Now. Terms and conditions state you have to have made an order on Amazon IT between certain dates to qualify. But I just want to be sure. So if anyone took adcantage of that offer, or can advise further on how the offer is activated, please do.
I've pre-ordered on UK Amazon for £60 (£70 with Amazon's recent £10 off promotion). But the price would be £41.50 if I could get the Amazon IT deal.
Amazon IT
Uncharted 4 special edition
Price is 60
Amazon IT have an offer atm. Buy 50 giftcard and get 10 gift card for free. So essentially making the price 50.
Now. Terms and conditions state you have to have made an order on Amazon IT between certain dates to qualify. But I just want to be sure. So if anyone took adcantage of that offer, or can advise further on how the offer is activated, please do.
I've pre-ordered on UK Amazon for £60 (£70 with Amazon's recent £10 off promotion). But the price would be £41.50 if I could get the Amazon IT deal.
on the offer page there should be a "do i qualify box"
Awesome, thanks. Reserved one myself. Not sure whether to gift it to my girlfriend (already got her SM3DL which she wanted for ages) or keep it for myself. Or gift it and just play it myself too once she's opened it for a few brownie points.
Quick question guys: the Amazon gift card promotions (spend X amount on gift cards in one order and receive a gift code for Y amount), can the code you receive be used only on new orders? I've tried applying it to a few orders I already had up that either haven't shipped due to a pre-order or that just simply haven't shipped or been charged yet and they won't work.
Stereogatari
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When I am logged in on the offer page, there is no box. Only the terms and conditions.
MH4U, you're doing it wrong. You're not supposed to rise up to 45€, holy shit!
btw, DBZ N3DS for 170€ on amz.de.
btw, DBZ N3DS for 170€ on amz.de.
Thanks, though I don't have any CC or PP or the like.
Sephiroth87
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That isn't working for me (on both accounts).
Why are you lying?
welp, it was working when I posted!
edit: still working for me - Tesco Groceries app, Home & Ents, Entertainment, Gaming & Books, Gaming
charmed699
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The Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo is down to £19.99 at Argos. Also, thanks to the good people of HotUKDeals, I've discovered that Flubit seems to also provide better offers on products found on the Argos website. I've put in a request for a better offer on the amiibo. Would make it a lot easier than waiting for Amazon to price match. Wonder what other websites are allowed.
Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo at Argos
Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo at Argos
Never had any luck with Argos using Flubit, I get the offer through but they cancel it as soon as I've completed the transaction quoting that it must have gone out of stock between the time of offer and time of purchase.
I'm afraid I can't find it on the app either. Darn.
Cheeseman Battitude
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Guitar Hero Live £40 on PS4/Xbone, £38 on PS3/360 in Tesco.
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