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| PlainName:
--- Quote from: wraper on July 26, 2024, 09:22:30 pm --- --- Quote from: PlainName on July 26, 2024, 09:16:24 pm --- --- Quote from: wraper on July 25, 2024, 09:08:29 pm ---https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-and-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-in-the-uk-using-online-marketplaces --- Quote ---Consignments valued at £135 or less The online marketplace must charge and account for VAT at the point of sale, unless the consignment is a business to business sale and the customer has given their UK VAT registration number. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Fairly sure the price shown to consumers must be the VAT-inclusive one. Somewhere like Aliexpress always shows VAT-exclusive and applies a bump up on checkout, but since they don't have a presence in the UK they can ignore such diktats. Ebay, OTOH, has UK presence so has the play the game. Maybe Ebay US (that is the .com rather than .co.uk) can get away with VAT-exclusive prices because it's notionally selling in the US. VAT would still be added on checkout, but the initial price shown would be less. --- End quote --- If you don't select UK address on ebay.com it won't show VAT inclusive price. Any inconsistencies will go away at checkout. --- End quote --- Er, yes, that is what I wrote. |
| artag:
This has now got considerably worse, with ebay refusing to ship many items to the UK. It's not clear to me what triggers their refusal or why they interpret UK legislation this way but seems to be something to do with UKCA marking. This is the entirely unnecessary alternative to CE marking which the now-abandoned previous government implemented in case there was anything european in it. However, ebay are taking it completely overboard, possibly demanding everything electrical has UKCA documentation. In the item I attempted to buy, this was a logic analyser signal ground lead. I don't know whether this is stupidity on the part of ebay, or ebay trying to pressure a bureaucrat into keeping a more sensible definition. I'm interested to know what it looks like from the seller's point of view. Have you tried to ship from USA to UK and been told not to ? Did it give any useful information ? Have you found a workaround ? |
| wraper:
^ebay does not refuse anything, it's up to seller to decide to where they do ship. |
| coppice:
E-Bay has some weird shipping prices for users in the UK, that make decent prices for small items from outside the UK end up rather pricey. A small used PCB from the US at £21.34 has a shipping cost of "£62.46 Standard Delivery from outside UK". A small used PCB from Germany at £19.20 has a shipping cost of "£51.65 Standard Delivery from outside UK". |
| KungFuJosh:
--- Quote from: coppice on August 28, 2024, 06:17:53 pm ---E-Bay has some weird shipping prices for users in the UK, that make decent prices for small items from outside the UK end up rather pricey. --- End quote --- That might be eBay's shipping calculator, but it also could be the seller setting prices by region. |
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