custom duty on a pack of coils from China?!

[JohnnyAce]

We can but hope. But I doubt it. They genuinely don't seem to give a shit judging by the responses on their forum.

I'm still gonna play it safe by lobbing in a ticket, can't trust that crazy bunch

 

[SirLugg]

I'm still gonna play it safe by lobbing in a ticket, can't trust that crazy bunch

I concur.

 

[Crewella]

Proof .... if proof were needed. It's an SJMY DDP One at $16.46

https://www.fasttech.com/products/6405100

I just paid and went for free postage. No choice of shipping, no discussion.

 

[zouzounaki]

Proof .... if proof were needed. It's an SJMY DDP One at $16.46

https://www.fasttech.com/products/6405100

I just paid and went for free postage. No choice of shipping, no discussion.

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Don’t you already have 4 of them??

 

[zouzounaki]

I think fasttech themselves are behind all this. They know their sales will double or even triple once it catches on and people start playing customs charge bingo.

 

[Crewella]

Don’t you already have 4 of them??

They're starting to be 'discontinued' most places!

 

[zouzounaki]

They don’t really break though, @Crewella . I like the one I acquired, but don’t feel the need to stockpile them.

 

[Crewella]

They don’t really break though, @Crewella . I like the one I acquired, but don’t feel the need to stockpile them.

No but .... yeah but ......... I REAALLY LIKE THEM!!

 

[dpg]

I've also recently been slapped with a £3 VAT and £8 handling fee for a shipment of less than £15 of goods from FastTech. The problem seems to be down to FastTech overvaluing the order on the customs declaration. In this case they declared it as 190 HKD - around £19 - for some reason.

I fear that my current order with a value of just £11 will also incur an £11 fee as tracking shows it has been stuck in LANGLEY HWDC for a few days - the only time this happened before was when I was charged VAT.

Now that I've read this thread I plan to put a hold on all future orders at FastTech to raise a ticket to ask them to declare the true value of my order. But this is a bit of a palaver, adding a further day to the processing of each order.

I think we should all complain to FastTech about their practice of overvaluing small orders, especially now the low value of the £ means that shipments declared at $20 will attract VAT and handling fees. It would be better for everyone if FastTech put down the true value or, if they want to declare a single price for all small orders, that they made it less than the equivalent of £15.

 

[*Wookie*]

Its very odd practice what they are doing - all of my last 3 orders over past few weeks - sub $20 have been marked at the right price from what I could see so randomisation here. All epacket if any difference.

Out of curiosity though does it flag up at all if making many multiple purchases as I do want to order another rta even though have one coming today but have had like 3 turn up in last 2 weeks. I am sure there is people out there that order more lol