General > General Technical Chat

uCurrent shipment issues to European countries

<< < (8/13) > >>

HighVoltage:

--- Quote from: janoc on April 10, 2015, 09:45:59 pm ---Yep, exactly the same to France. You forgot to mention that Fedex/DHL/UPS actually invoice you their processing fee for doing the customs too (normally that should be Digikey's/Mouser's duty to declare it). So in the end it can be pretty expensive.

--- End quote ---
Yes, that is true but I rather pay the fee than stay in line at the customs office.

mcinque:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on April 10, 2015, 08:39:15 pm ---Could be immunity issues but nobody is going to care about that.

--- End quote ---
Very interesting for me, do you have any experience or example about this?

mikeselectricstuff:

--- Quote from: janoc on April 10, 2015, 09:45:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on April 10, 2015, 08:36:22 pm ---For the UK, Digikey do collect taxes at the time of order- this has been the case for the last couple of years or so.

--- End quote ---

I think the reason is that they actually have some business in UK, so they have to collect VAT. In France they leave it to the recipient to pay at the post office/to the delivery man/by separate invoice,

--- End quote ---
I don't think they have any UK presence- I have no doubt that they changed due to complaints from customers - the old system where UPS collected the VAT was a major headache for some companies - Unless you had a UPS deferment account, the UPS guy had to have a cheque or card on delivery, something the avarage "goods-in" dept was not set up to do.
With a UPS account it happens automatically & UPS bills monthly, but even that needs more work for the bean-counting dept.
It gets even worse when shipping to different sites- e.g. a customer of min ordered some bits to be sent to me, and as mine was the delivery address the VAT got charged to my UPS account. 

--- Quote --- because they ship everything from the US (I was asked to fill some ITAR forms for 2 PIC18Fs!!!).

--- End quote ---
I have no problem with that - given the existence of stupid US rules, it is much better for them to collect info just in case it's needed, to avoid delays. Mouser's method of holding the order to get info means 1-2 days' delay to an order.

--- Quote ---
Yep, exactly the same to France. You forgot to mention that Fedex/DHL/UPS actually invoice you their processing fee for doing the customs too (normally that should be Digikey's/Mouser's duty to declare it). So in the end it can be pretty expensive.


--- End quote ---
That was never the case for the UK, where the UPS fee was paid by Digikey. The only oddity was that as well as VAT on the goods, you paid VAT in the notional value of the "free" delivery.

hammy:
As an amateur radio operator we have a similar problem here in germany. Due our license we are allowed to build, use and buy/sell equipment without the CE sign. With our ham license we had proven that we know what we do.
BUT if we order stuff from outside germany and it wants to cross the border without a CE sign, the customs stops it. And you get a letter afterwards about it. No chance to drive there and to show them the license. They pretend to know what our license imply, they don't care, they don't want extra paperwork.  :--

mcinque:

--- Quote from: hammy on April 11, 2015, 09:00:10 am ---With our ham license we had proven that we know what we do.

--- End quote ---
I don't know your HAM licensing process, but I know HAMs here that knows only what is a bulb lamp and a battery (you can guess what they know about designing electronics).

Our HAM licensing is only written quiz based (no more voice interview), and requires only 60% correct responses to pass; so by reading a book with all the quizzes and the responses, with a little of luck you can get the 10% needed more than the 50% casual probability.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

There was an error while thanking
Thanking...
Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod