Hey chaps, anyone ordered a GR-1 from the Netherlands?
I know there will be 20% UK VAT, but 21% NL VAT is discounted on the website, so that all evens out.
What I’m wondering is what the Import Duty is likely to be on a 790 Euro (before VAT) synth?
Cheers chaps
I am a chap so I shall answer! I believe it’s somewhere between 3-4% last I checked, quick Google indicates 3.2% for synths, which sounds about right.
Oh OK thats way better than I expected! Thank you Nate, you truly are a Chap
Is chaps considered non-gendered in the UK, like ‘guys’ has become in large parts of the world?
Nah, chaps is definitely male and a little bit posh. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Source: born and raised in the United Kingdom.
I bought a couple of things early on from the EU and yeah, the duty/fees are not too massive.
As long as the paperwork is all filled in right and you’re not paying EU VAT you should be golden
A quick update.
I’m in the UK and ordered a Black GR-1 direct from Tasty Chips.
I had to pay an additional £165 Import/Customs/Clearance Fees.
Is that the brexit dividend?
Yep!
But as mentioned in the original post the NL VAT was taken away when i ordered, so i suppose i ended up paying pretty much what i had budgeted for.
Ive had a good few things come though with 0 customs etc…the brexit dividend working great for me lol
uggh. this has really boiled my piss this week.
A couple of weeks ago I finally managed to snag the last Verbos Electronics module I wanted to complete my system - Random Sampling… they’ve been unobtainium for months.
Dealt with a lovely guy in Germany, price was ok, good to deal with. he got it out to me from him in just over 24 hours.
Well over a week elapsed - I finally managed to track it down - it was sat in the depot just down the motorway from me : I had to wait for a letter ( not an email or text …) outlining the fees I had to pay before Parcel Force could finally deliver it.
£99.40. £99.40 in fucking VAT & duties on a second hand module. That’s actually made it considerably more expensive then buying one new. I mean, I’ve paid for the luxury of getting one now, not in 2 months or whenever stock finally lands from Verbos…but really…!
Fuck Brexit.