Help! Anyone on here know about CUSTOMS???

[confuusion]

Please could someone clarify this?!

If you purchase an item from overseas for £290 (a sale price) would you expect the vendor (independent seller) when dispatching the item, to state the value of the item as £290 for customs purposes? Or would you expect them to state a previous pre-sale price of £430 on the box, even though this price was not the terms of sale and not what you paid?

Because the vendor stated the pre-sale value of the goods on the box (£430), I was liable for £93 in customs tax, even though I did not enter an agreement to buy the item for £430. This was an art textile made by an independent artist.

AIBU to think that the price I paid (£290) should have been the value recorded on the box?

YANBU. They should have stated the price paid - £290.

Should be the £290. It comes under "Method 1 - transaction value" of valuing items for UK import and uses price paid by the buyer.

Thankyou.

I emailed the seller saying that the value of goods she recorded in the box was not what I paid (to be honest, I just bought the art at the price stated on her website at the time and didn't really register what she had previously listed it at).

Anyway, she has kicked off, sending me tirades about how I am devaluing her art, 'starving artists are real' and this kind of thing. It's very unprofessional and bizarre.