zippy opened this issue on Aug 12, 2009 · 61 posts
Paul Francis posted Thu, 13 August 2009 at 4:56 PM
A bit of (related) light relief...my wife bought an artificial diamond for about £600 from the USA via the Internet a few years back, we live in the UK - two weeks later, the Royal Mail put a note through my door saying that they were holding it at their depot and that I needed to go there and pay £4.80 in import tax, levied by HM Customs and Excise...I went to the depot, cheque book in hand. I hadn't read the note properly; they actually wanted £480, as HMC&E thought it was real. I had to pay £480 out, and appeal with HMC&E later. I lost their internal appeal, and would have had to go to court, with a diamond expert, arranged at my own cost, to counter their argument that it was worth £10,000 and reclaim the fee. I gave up; it took about two years for me to pluck up the courage to ever import anything again.....reading this thread, I don't think I'm going to bother upgrading.....!
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