What Brexit consequences are you dealing with not covered in the press?

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We bought a (not inexpensive) wine fridge from Denmark online over a month ago, which we are told is stuck at the French border due to Brexit. Apparently, you can buy bacon from Denmark but not kitchen appliances.

DP's company has been told by Boots and Tesco that they can't take stock that is Only UK compliant because their warehouse ships to ROI. To be ROI compliant requires an EU address. So they are spending thousands to oversticker.

And they are investing in a bigger warehouse in the EU and downsizing the UK warehouse as more needs doing in EU.

Not lifechanging but I've been searching online for crockery sets and am finding a lot of stuff out of stock. Searching on John Lewis they have more sets out of stock than in stock. I'm sure this is the case for other items too.

@ThinkAboutItTomorrow I hope this will mean more jobs for the ROI and other EU countries. That would be great news, so much needed in the covid times.

My DP parents live in the EU. They have always been able to travel on their ID card.

So not only do we not have any idea when they can next travel to us, they both need to apply for passports which is an expense they can barely afford especially as I am sure fights will be expensive once the travel corridor opens.

@EerieSilence sort of in the short term. Maybe France or Germany (not ROI). But long term they are looking more at the rest of the world as the cost of doing business is now little different but the growth opportunities are better. Which was always the story the government pitched. I just think it should have been a choice rather than the next best option to easy free trade with a large neighbour.

@ThinkAboutItTomorrow , mainly ROI were importing lots of the UK at the cost of the Irish business so I think this is a huge boost for Irish based companies to do something about it.
My dog eats raw and I'm already switching from a UK based company which already was barely affordable but they served good quality products for my dog's sensitive stomach so I bought it. I see lots of movement in that area. The likes of Tesco in the ROI were full of UK produce and right now it will mean higher prices so I will be certainly avoiding that, even though with Covid we certainly started looking around for local produce anyway.
I'm not sure about the impact for bigger UK companies with stores in ROI and other countries but I'm certainly going to avoid the likes of River Island, M&S etc, if they slap charges on their products, even though I think that it will hit the smaller producers harder as they were reliant on exports to other EU countries. Overall, I see great chances for EU local produce, especially the ROI one, which is fantastic.

@EerieSilence the local Irish brands don't have long to take advantage, the address issue will be fixed at the next print run and in the meantime it's a few grand to oversticker. That's not a long term on cost. Just a hassle that could have been avoided if they'd done the deal at some earlier point in the last 4 years.

But the thing is Eerie, you sound like you're gloating a bit and it's not really something to gloat about. The trouble goes both ways and ROI current exports ~€1.25bn of goods to the UK, just a bit (~€250m) more than they import. So any new jobs from trade barriers would more or less net out.

I believe we should look to rejoin the EU ASAP by the way, no brexiter here. But I don't think it's as simple as the UK losing out and everyone else gains. We're all the poorer for this small minded localism that is Brexit.

Sorry, it's €250m LESS than they import, obviously!

Hear hear to that. The loss is huge on both sides and not just economic loss.

Got hit with customs charges on the last parcel I ordered from a UK company (it was about 30% again on the value of the goods), so will now avoid buying anything shipped from the UK the same way I avoid buying anything from the US. Will still buy from companies which ship EU orders from within the EU, like Next.

Much more significantly my eldest really wanted to go to sixth form in the UK (boarding), and we'd narrowed choices down to the very few options that fit her needs in terms of subjects (A levels are no good for German university admission and she needed specific subjects) visited and chosen a school and budgeted for it, but they cancelled their international baccalaureate programme due to lack of demand as of September, so she's staying here to complete her schooling. Cheaper, easier and less stress for us as parents, but a lost opportunity for her.

@ThinkAboutItTomorrow - I'm not gloating. I'm glad that the local Irish companies now get a chance and I believe that once they get a traction, this will continue and they will retain their customers.
I also understand that plenty of local UK smaller companies were pointing out exactly at this possibility and I feel sorry for them. Brexit is a major fuck up. ROI have a chance to find markets within the EU for the same conditions, the UK companies have to figure out a way how to live in the new world.

My daughter doesn't have the right to live in the country of her birth. Her father and half-sister live there too.

I asked her father to help me get her an EU passport and he refused, I'm pretty bitter about the whole thing.

Sorry wrong thread!! @mnhq please can you delete my post

I can't quote a customer their preferred delivery terms because we do not have an EU registered customs entity.

On 29 December I ordered some sale stuff from a well known U.K. clothes retailer. Took ages to get to France, but I didn't get hit by extra customs charges so I am counting myself lucky.

Anyway, I was about to send back a couple of items today, when I read that it's so hard for retailers to process returns on EU sales and get the products back into the U.K. that returned stock may be burned .

I know that's not my problem but the thought of a perfectly good pair of trousers and a shirt possibly being incinerated made me change my mind, and I'm going to keep them. Will be the last time I order anything from the U.K.

With the stuff potentially being burned, I thought some enterprising person ought to gather up the stuff and flog it.

My elderly mum in the UK often sends over little crafty bits, magazines etc for my kids. She would now have to fill out a customs form and pay over the odds every time, so she won’t do it any more. It’s such a small stupid consequence but it’s making me really sad.

Anyone with good news of things that are happening? I could do with cheering up.

UK businesses are being told to set up subsidiaries in the EU. Most appear to be going to NL, so this is great news - if you are Dutch

I just would like to add another experience with Brexit.
As Irish An Post are (or were) using Heathrow as their hub for sending parcels abroad, the parcel I sent to my family before Christmas is still stuck somewhere. I don't even know where.
On Wednesday I ordered a Sacher torte from their online shop in Vienna. DH is 40 next Sunday so while I can't do any party for him, I can at least splash out on a cake he loves.
They sent the cake on Thursday evening via DHL. Friday morning I had the cake in my hands and off it went into a hiding spot. Because it wasn't routed through the UK.
It looks like UK is becoming obsolete as a routing hub.

A few places in GB are not delivering to NI now which is frustrating! DP has had two parcels returned to sender as they didn't have the right paper work, one was some Earl Grey gin, I can't remember what the other was. The alcohol merchant they said they won't resend until they know what they're doing. And the whole system is set to change again on April 1st so who knows what happens then!

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My elderly mum in the UK often sends over little crafty bits, magazines etc for my kids. She would now have to fill out a customs form and pay over the odds every time, so she won’t do it any more. It’s such a small stupid consequence but it’s making me really sad.

Just to say, if you're able to help her with this perhaps, there are comparison sites such as parcelmokey or parcel2go. When I checked a week ago, prices TO the EU were still similar, and you can get a courier to pick it up at your door. You do need to do the customs form, but all online. You could book the parcel for her, as long as she has a printer.

Good to know catlady, thanks. She's not very good online unfortunately, but I'll try and talk her through it.

Got my smuggled spare part in the post today. When asked, my mum told the post office it was a paperclip.

I went onto Amazon last night to reorder something. Item no longer available on prime and delivery has gone up to nearly 5€ (for a €7.50 item) with a delivery time of 9-14 days instead of next day. On checking, I was unsurprised to learn that the seller is in the U.K. Obv didn't order from them...