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£480 postage on practically ANY Semiconductor from China?
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Benta:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on January 20, 2023, 11:53:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Benta on January 20, 2023, 11:41:08 pm ---I don't think it's a scam.
It's a way of saying "we do not ship to the UK, it's too much hassle".
The rest of the analysis is up to you.

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  I'm curious about why you think that shipping to England from China would be any more of hassle than shipping to the US or other country?  I know that England has insane import fees and the like but those are paid for by the buyer and I don't think that they require any extra effort of the seller's part.

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It's quite easy. Both the US and the EU have bilateral trade arrangements with China. The UK does... not.
The previous transitional EU arrangements have expired, and the UK has not completed new ones, except the loudly-trumpeted New Zealand deal. (Wow! 0.2%).
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47213842
bson:
If it were a U.S. seller I'd assume their agreement with Altera won't let them charge more than MSRP and they make money off the shipping instead.  But this being eBay and China... I'd be more concerned it's a fake.
m98:

--- Quote from: Chris56000 on January 21, 2023, 01:45:44 am ---I did one come across a listing for a Tektronix Mains Transformer in the UK with "£995.00" shipping, but that one turned out to be a simple honest typing mistake on the part of the Seller, who'd simply entered "995" on his keyboard – it was corrected when another potential buyer queried it – the seller had only intended to put "£9.95"

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Yea, that also gets me regularly. In German, we use the comma as a decimal divider, but with software, all bets are off. Some use commas, some dots.
Psi:
You can get a DHL/Fedex/UPS account and get china to charge your account number.
That way you pay what it costs, end of story. They cant pad out the costs.
Best to negotiate the final goods price before you tell them you have a shipping account  :-DD

It's pretty common thing to do on alibaba.
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