Buy parts in Great Britain after Brexit

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mdt-son said:
I was billed by DHL recently and they sent the payment request by email. There was a link in the email by which I was able to download the invoice. If you didn't get this link, I'd pay anyway. You can always request the invoice later on.

DHL will not return your shipment, but after 7 days storage fees will be charged. After 60 (?) days, customers failing to pay may face a total loss.

-Knut
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Before December I received deliveries from DHL, their practice then was to deliver and send an email link for payment on line, to me that is really the best way!

Have they changed process post Brexit transition? Don't know.
 
Bernhard said:
Petty??? Who's being petty?
The EU invoked article/rule 16 so soon after Brexit on restricting the coronavirus vaccine being exported to Northern Ireland on Friday morning then Friday afternoon said they were not going to impose it!!!!
Yes, it's pretty petty, but you might begin to understand what the EU is all about now the U K has left......or have we?
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You are right of course, having lived and worked within France and Italy, working on EU funded and other collaborative projects since 2000, I probably don't know anything about the EU!
 
EstuaryBoy said:
Can they be 'customised' for each transaction?? I've looked at some low value goods in the US via ebay, and the 'Global Shipping' charges are way OTT..
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Yes they must be set to a high minimum value, but my suggestion is not a route to sell low value' only to sell a nominal value item, wink wink.
 
Bernhard said:
I wonder how other companies are faring in the latest moves by the EU, like Honda's overnight spares supply from their vast warehouse in Holland?
I'll have to go and ask a Honda dealer about that, but I'm not near one any more.
Can anybody else in the UK oblige and report back here?
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If you had been reading you would have seen that Honda have been closing the factory for a number of days each week to cater for supply shortages!
 
Just had a race undersuit delivered from the UK Royal Mail, just shows it can be alottery.

Ordered 25th January via Amazon, but, customs for value noted as '£10', I paid nearly 3 times that, but no additional charges!

I would like to reduce my dependence on Amazon, who I find unethical at times, but how can I! Similar item from local bike shop likely needs to be ordered in and to cost 80 to 90€ judging by other items on sale!

(I can't write off ever purchasing there, and I have once, I got a good deal on a French brand race helmet I ordered, I was happy with the price when I ordered, then the model was discounted after I ordered, but they still gave me the discount)
 
A package I ordered from Hong Kong on Monday arrived today - no dues, as seems to be the norm. Funny old world.

The current situation with the EU is a mess, just like any 'divorce deal' inevitably would be.
I'm just surprised that people are surprised by it...
 
SteveA said:
If you had been reading you would have seen that Honda have been closing the factory for a number of days each week to cater for supply shortages!
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You are right when you are referring to the UK car factory. I was referring to their own motorcycle next day spares distribution network. In the UK , Order a spare part before 1pm and it's delivered next day......and it comes from their great big warehouse in Europe.
 
Coming back to "I need an English version of my webshop" for Norton Motors (Deutschland) GmbH, also repeating my previous posting on the subject, I had one.

And it was deleted and the Triumph part shifted to Andover Norton because I simply could not keep up with the orders coming in from the non-German speaking countries and I want a life outside my shop for some hours of the week. I still like to ride motorcycles, I have a family and friends. As a pure act of self-defence I intentionally put the non-Germanic business into Andover Norton.

The current fiasco with my parcels ending up with customs for over three weeks in one case were unpredictable and are caused by overload of the customs offices which were neither prepared for the stupid rulings of the last-minute Brexit deal, nor for the quantities of parcels they all of a sudden had to deal with alongside those they dealt with before and continue having to deal with.
I am hopeful we will come back to more reasonable delays but this will take time and, as Madnorton writes, new procedures. Just imagine, say, California getting out of the US of A and the rest of the US customs offices having to deal with wares coming in from California virtually unprepared from one day to another. Do you think that would work from Day1?

Blame the politicians, people well-removed all their grown-up lifes from the everyday, let alone the commercial world, agreeing on a half-baked deal over Christmas and in typical ivory tower aloofness not considering what practical problems will arise from their deal. And most probably not even able to.
 
ZFD said:
Just imagine, say, California getting out of the US of A and the rest of the US customs offices having to deal with wares coming in from California virtually unprepared from one day to another. Do you think that would work from Day1?
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Possibly!

Remember it is a long time since I lived in the US, so things may have changed, but as I understood it:

Only people who live within a given state pay 'state tax' for that state...so if you order from out of state, you don't pay state taxes to the state you ordered from, or the one you had goods delivered to!

Meaning if you live in Oklahoma and order from New York, you don't pay New York state tax, or Oklahoma state tax.

Fully expecting current US residents to put me right!
 
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"Meaning if you live in Oklahoma and order from New York, you don't pay New York state tax, or Oklahoma state tax."
Correct, but only whilst the state you buy from is part of the US.
Was my example California an independent "foreign" state all of a sudden, say like France or India is to the USA, and that compares to the Brexit from the EU, then I am sure customs offices are going to get involved.
 
ZFD said:
"Meaning if you live in Oklahoma and order from New York, you don't pay New York state tax, or Oklahoma state tax."
Correct, but only whilst the state you buy from is part of the US.
Was my example California an independent "foreign" state all of a sudden, say like France or India is to the USA, and that compares to the Brexit from the EU, then I am sure customs offices are going to get involved.
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Hi Joachim,
you are the Boss and considered that you want not sell parts to us UE citizens non german speaking from DE web could you so kindly to ask to your courrier do not add services tax for parcel in 135 GP threshold?.
Thank you so much.
Piero
 
SteveA said:
Possibly!

Remember it is a long time since I lived in the US, so things may have changed, but as I understood it:

Only people who live within a given state pay 'state tax' for that state...so if you order from out of state, you don't pay state taxes to the state you ordered from, or you one you had goods delivered to!

Meaning if you live in Oklahoma and order from New York, you don't pay New York state tax, or Oklahoma state tax.

Fully expecting current US residents to put me right!
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It's still that way, except: eBay and Amazon are considered to have a "presence" in each state and therefore collect sales tax for the state the the buyer is in.

So when I sell to someone in Virginia, I collect sales tax and give it to the Virginia govt but when I sell to anyone outside Virginia, I collect no sales tax and I report it to Virginia as an exempt sale.

What's really weird is if I sell via eBay to someone in Virginia, eBay collects and pays the sales tax and I treat it like the sale didn't happen for sales tax purposes - this is what it changed to in 2020.

Of course, if you come to Virginia and buy, no matter where you live, you pay Virginia sales tax.
 
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