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To ask anyone who voted for Brexit to pay my import duty

323 replies

Saddlesore · 17/05/2021 19:17

I ordered a household item online and paid no attention as to where it was coming from (because I never did before). It turned out it was being shipped from Germany and I have to pay import duty and fees to receive it. WTAF!
I’m just having a rant because I fail to see how our lives have improved after Brexit - and don’t get me started on what my relatives in NI are having to endure. And no, Brexit did not deliver a triumph to the UK on vaccines because we would have been just as free to negotiate their delivery to us within the EU.

So, for anyone who voted for Brexit, have your lives really improved and are you happy that UK consumers now have fewer choices and more expensive ones at that?

So, while this is rather tongue in cheek, here goes:

Yes - YABU to want Brexit voters to pay your import fees
No - YANBU to want Brexit voters to pay your import fees

OP posts:

borderforce · 17/05/2021 21:53

OP, which carrier was it? It’s not only VAT they’re adding on, there are other unspecified charges and in all the chaos, these are bring wrongly calculated. Get a breakdown of what the charges are. You will have to pay the full amount, but there is a firm (B something)? I’ve had loads of charges and queried them. It’s bureaucracy on an unprecedented scale. You can’t do it online, no you have to post the form. I imagine it sat in a mountain of similar queries and I’ll be lucky if I hear before I’m 80. Maybe we’ll be back in the EU then?

Irishterrier · 17/05/2021 21:56

Stupid post

arethereanyleftatall · 17/05/2021 21:57

Gotta be honest @Miljea - it doesn't sound like the past 4-5 years have re-educated you whatsoever. It sounds like you've delved even deeper in to the 'all brexiteers are racist and thick' drivel. Which says more about the company you keep than anything else.

tttigress · 17/05/2021 21:57

Couldn't you have sourced whatever you bought or something similar locally, would have been better for the environment.

To be honest, shopping for things remotely from a foreign country is pretty decadent.

MasterBeth · 17/05/2021 21:58

This thread is amazing.

We VOTED for the right to pay more for things from abroad, you know!

How dare you complain?!

Miljea · 17/05/2021 21:58

borderforce at least mine was cut and dried. What cost me £15 pre-Brexit now costs me £33.

Miljea · 17/05/2021 21:59

decadent??

Turnips are nice.

MasterBeth · 17/05/2021 22:00

@tttigress

Couldn't you have sourced whatever you bought or something similar locally, would have been better for the environment.

To be honest, shopping for things remotely from a foreign country is pretty decadent.

Yeah, British manufacturing industry is definitely ready to step up to the plate...

borderforce · 17/05/2021 22:00

Also what is happening is people are paying VAT twice, very often, when ordering from the EU. This is because the advertised prices on the websites are inclusive of VAT (the price when converted to £ does not subtract the VAT). But then you are paying VAT again at customs, plus other mystery charges because frequently, you are paying an extra 40-50% on items ordered, not just VAT.

EvenRosesHaveThorns · 17/05/2021 22:00

Sounds like you need to consider the environment when shopping online before stirring the pot

Irishterrier · 17/05/2021 22:00

@OwlIceCrem

This isn’t ‘tongue in cheek’, it’s virtue-signalling: “I voted Remain because I’m not a racist cross-eyed backwards Tory voter who believes all the lies pedalled by Boris and his ridiculous bus.”

Yet you are the one who couldn’t read the import fees...

Sick of being patronised by people who don’t understand that the point of a democracy.

Well said @OwlIceCrem

Miljea · 17/05/2021 22:03

@arethereanyleftatall

Gotta be honest *@Miljea* - it doesn't sound like the past 4-5 years have re-educated you whatsoever. It sounds like you've delved even deeper in to the 'all brexiteers are racist and thick' drivel. Which says more about the company you keep than anything else.

Nah, I thought I lived among relatively intelligent critical-thinkers. Turns out I don't.

That's how I have been re-educated.

It's actually quite liberating, if I'm honest. I now don't need to twist myself in knots about reacting to things. I don't need to consider all sides to an argument, re our relationship the EU as I now recognise it's pointless.

The 'side' that wanted turnips has 'won'.

Happymum12345 · 17/05/2021 22:03

The joy of mumsnet & the abundance of Boris loving Brexiteers! I agree with you op.

Miljea · 17/05/2021 22:13

@Irishterrier

Stupid post

Thank you for you well constructed, carefully considered and well-argued reply to the OP.

I think a wide range of alternative opinions, intelligently delivered, thoughtfully arranged- are always welcome.

Oh.... Wait....

Judith0000 · 17/05/2021 22:17

I have ordered an item from a well known household name company. The company is a .co.uk company, yet my goods are still coming from Germany and I will need to pay import duty.

newnortherner111 · 17/05/2021 22:19

OP, almost all those who voted for the act of economic self-harm called Brexit will not admit any change of heart or regret at doing so.

I actually had sympathy for the DUP MP Ian Paisley today, something I never thought I could ever have. Owing to the impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland.

TheyWentToSeaInASieve · 17/05/2021 22:19

Whichever way people voted, I really hope they didn't base their decision on whether they would now have to pay import duty;-)

FOJN · 17/05/2021 22:20

Miljea

It's a little difficult to advise on sourcing your oil lamp chimney without knowing size, shape etc but there is this one and many others on amazon as well as plenty of other sites, found just by googling "glass chimney for oil lamp"

www.amazon.co.uk/Oberstdorfer-Glash%C3%BCtte-Replacement-cylinder-Windlight/dp/B0757JJF65?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

It's German and mouth blown!

SchrodingersImmigrant · 17/05/2021 22:24

@FOJN

Miljea

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It's German and mouth blown!

And shipped from germany, if I am not mistaken...

Miljea · 17/05/2021 22:29

@FOJN

Miljea

www.amazon.co.uk/Oberstdorfer-Glash%C3%BCtte-Replacement-cylinder-Windlight/dp/B0757JJF65?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

It's German and mouth blown!

Yep, German. Cost me £11 plus £22 'costs'. A specialist unit like this cost me £15, all up, pre Brexit.

Are you agreeing with me, here? I can't be sure.

What cost little old me £15 now costs £33.

Disregarding the hundreds of other ways life has just become more expensive for no discernible gain.

Miljea · 17/05/2021 22:32

@TheyWentToSeaInASieve

Whichever way people voted, I really hope they didn't base their decision on whether they would now have to pay import duty;-)

Why not? This stuff affects 'ordinary people' on day to day basis.

People should have entirely been considering this sort of stuff, well over falsely represented issues of law!

Nimo12 · 17/05/2021 22:34

@Saddlesore

AJ, I’m not asking you to pay. But I did not vote for higher import duty and less choice so I presume that anyone who did is happy to?

I didn't vote Tory but I'm still stuck with them. That's life.

FOJN · 17/05/2021 22:35

And shipped from germany, if I am not mistaken...

Yes, at £19.95, a saving of £13.05 if I'm not mistaken........

SchrodingersImmigrant · 17/05/2021 22:38

@FOJN

And shipped from germany, if I am not mistaken...

Yes, at £19.95, a saving of £13.05 if I'm not mistaken........

Total is 29.74 so saving of whole £3 somethin?

cuparfull · 17/05/2021 22:38

Buy British! It's about time we started supporting our own economy.

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