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Title: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Hoppy on Feb 11^th, 2017 at 7:23pm

My daughter Jess who's living and working in London, ordered some Mushroom Immune Defence from iherb, now she has to pay 14pounds duty too customs before it can be delivered [smiley=wtf.gif]

Hoppy

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Mike NZ on Feb 11^th, 2017 at 11:20pm

Not just vitamins either, we sent some xmas gifts over to the UK and there was a similar amount to pay as duty too.

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Hoppy on Feb 12^th, 2017 at 12:29am

Yeah! It's just weird! We sent Jess a parcel of clothes and all was ok! No duty too pay, but Jess's friend, who's she's travelling with, parents sent her a parcel of clothes and she had to cough up 60pounds duty before they would deliver them [smiley=wtf.gif] [smiley=confused.gif]

Hoppy

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Mike NZ on Feb 12^th, 2017 at 12:54am

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That might help explain some thing, but it seems that the rules changed in the last year or so to be a lot stricter.

Title: Re: Be careful when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Hoppy on Feb 12^th, 2017 at 1:24am

Then you folk that live in the UK and order vitamins online, be careful what you spend in one go, or you could be in for a surprise.

Hoppy

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Peter510 on Feb 12^th, 2017 at 3:20am

There's no duty into the UK for goods purchased within the EU......for the moment.

However, when Brexit is completed it is likely that duty will apply to ALL goods purchased outside the U.K., thus making it less attractive to buy overseas.

Peter.

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by maz on Feb 12^th, 2017 at 12:07pm

I don't know how much the duty is, but customs duty for items from outside the EU, to UK, starts at £135 including the postage, and VAT kicks in at £15.

I've never spent £135, but I have spent more than £15 on several occasions, including the mask I bought from the CH store here, and didn't have to pay - maybe my items have slipped through the net, and I was lucky.

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Peter510 on Feb 12^th, 2017 at 1:33pm

Maz,

Yep, that's it, Luck of the draw. I have bought things from the US, Far East' Australia, all over and sometimes you get caught, sometimes you don't.

They only do random sampling...same here in Ireland.

Peter.

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Mike NZ on Feb 13^th, 2017 at 2:56am

Just move to New Zealand, it's a great place to go on holiday and even better to live here!

(No bias from the poster at all!)

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Hoppy on Feb 13^th, 2017 at 5:35am

Or Australia! It's even better! That's why it's full of Kiwis [smiley=lolk.gif]

Hoppy

Title: Re: Be carefull when ordering vitamins from overseas
Post by Marc on May 7^th, 2017 at 9:03pm

Hoppy wrote on Feb 13^th, 2017 at 5:35am:

Or Australia! It's even better! That's why it's full of Kiwis [smiley=lolk.gif]

Hoppy

LOL