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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 19:30:38 GMT
if i buy a set of used headphones from a private seller in the USA, does anyone know if import duty is applied and if so how is it calculated? thanks
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 11, 2013 19:53:28 GMT
if i buy a set of used headphones from a private seller in the USA, does anyone know if import duty is applied and if so how is it calculated? thanks I've not been copped on that one. I normally ask private sellers to NOT mark the package. Or send it as a gift. I'm not sure on second hand goods tbh. Recently, I had the O2 sent and had absolutely no problem with customs. I also had a package come through from China that was left. Yet in the past, I have had to pay duty. It's crackers. If you've paid duty on the goods in the country that you bought it from (They don't take their taxes off) and then you pay more tax on the way in here, you've in effect paid two lots of taxes. However, you may well be ok if it's a private seller. (Hopefully)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 20:20:26 GMT
we always seem to get shafted in this country. we pay through the nose for everything
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 11, 2013 20:24:04 GMT
What have you bought? Something posh?
I was thinking at one time of buying some headphones from Amazon.com but the idea of tax put me off. I've always wondered why people selling in other countries don't take their own country's tax off in any case. You know, like a tax free shop for foreigners.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 20:27:30 GMT
What have you bought? Something posh? nothing as yet mate. but am considering an offer on audeze lcd-2 over on head-fi
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 11, 2013 20:29:18 GMT
What have you bought? Something posh? nothing as yet mate. but am considering an offer on audeze lcd-2 over on head-fi Ask him to write happy birthday on it the parcel!! That's what I do sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 20:38:52 GMT
nothing as yet mate. but am considering an offer on audeze lcd-2 over on head-fi Ask him to write happy birthday on it the parcel!! That's what I do sometimes. if i do that he will probably ask me to mark paypal as a "gift", and i am reluctant to do that with all the warnings on the site. it's a gamble but the price is just over 50% of new so would be good saving if i dont get shafted.
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Post by solderdude on Jun 11, 2013 21:15:53 GMT
The problem with shipping expensive (high value) items is sellers usually want some sort of insurance it arrives and when it doesn't they get compensated. This generally means they have to declare the value and that means the actual value. Even when sent as a gift you can still be charged for it. Also make sure there is no receipt or proof of payment in the box (or on the outside)
Sending things unregistered and hoping it would arrive also may not be the best idea. Mick's T50RP + filter box is already 3 weeks out there and might never arrive.
It's thus also a matter of luck... hoping that some punk in the entire postal chain doesn't decide a parcel is theirs.
Shipping expensive items always makes me scared.
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Post by juke on Jun 11, 2013 22:38:42 GMT
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Post by clausdk on Jun 11, 2013 22:49:41 GMT
In Denmark we can not get a present costing more than 9 £ then we have to pay VAT and a 25£ fee to the postalservice for calculating how much 25% is... The danish postalsystem has a "clausdk alarm" so I get busted every single time I buy something outside the EU, I imagine it is some sort of speaker going of in the sorting room saying "now we can get coffe and cakes in or breaktime" when it scans my name..
A company can NOT send a gift to a private person at all..
it is so funny when the clever chinamen write "I just write gift on the packet, then you have not do to pay custum" or something else in a beautifull engrish..
We have to send some sort of documentation for our payment to the taxdevils..
What we can do is break it up in two payments on paypal and send one of them to the taxdevils...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 3:24:57 GMT
I was thinking at one time of buying some headphones from Amazon.com but the idea of tax put me off. I've always wondered why people selling in other countries don't take their own country's tax off in any case. You know, like a tax free shop for foreigners. Are you sure? I thought there is a double taxation exemption clause signed between US and UK? Also, there will be a maximum amount bought before taxation in most country. Singapore is SGD 400. UK and US, that I don't know the amount. HK is not taxed for imports and has always been if I'm not wrong. And HK was a former UK colony. Sheeesh .......
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 3:31:43 GMT
Sending things unregistered and hoping it would arrive also may not be the best idea. Mick's T50RP + filter box is already 3 weeks out there and might never arrive. Oh, still "early" to be concerned about. Will sent me some PS PCBs more than 1/2 a year ago and it took > 2 months to reach after a "detour holiday" for the package. Shipping expensive items always makes me scared. Actually, depends. If they cannot be gotten or no better alternative in your country, no way but to shoot.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 3:40:34 GMT
but am considering an offer on audeze lcd-2 over on head-fi Good prospective buy there. But I prefer the LCD 3 unless your are going mostly for vocal, jazz or classical music, the LCD 2 will be perfect. But you have any high power HA to drive and control them? The Schitt at about 6W will be great. Don't even think a 1 watter will be good enough. Ask Mick as he has some of the fineness collection of the major HPs in his stash. I envy him.
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Post by solderdude on Jun 12, 2013 4:51:52 GMT
1W on the LCD2/3 will produce 121dB SPL. Pain threshold.... with 6W on it 128dB can be reached which is a bit of overkill IMO. The same power levels can be reached by connecting it directly to a 75W/4Ohm amplifier. Live rock music is between (108 - 114 dB) b.t.w.
On Mick's HE-6 1W will 'only' produce 107dB.
The LCD2 and LCD3 will basically sound the same with a filter attached to it AND be perfectly flat as opposed to shelved with a little peak in the highs in stock form.
I know a Dutch guy who imported most of his expensive headphones from the USA (via head-fi) and had no problems with shipping or paying taxes.
I only had to Pay taxes for Superlux stuff sent directly from the factory but that was because they mentioned the actual value. They did mark the 'gift' tickbox but as it also stated 'commercial sample' on the box I still got taxed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 12:19:54 GMT
1W on the LCD2/3 will produce 121dB SPL. Pain threshold.... with 6W on it 128dB can be reached which is a bit of overkill IMO. The same power levels can be reached by connecting it directly to a 75W/4Ohm amplifier. I meana the Ooompphhh without the loudness. Yeah, "Body" Without Loudness. Live rock music is between (108 - 114 dB) b.t.w. Oh, you haven't hear a REAL rock ocncert. It can go louder than a jet engine roar at 140 dB when next to the stage tower concert speakers. Although the SS (Err, not krauts, ok) I went to was not a typical metal rock concert, the bass was compressing me all the time and I'm in the middle of the arena. With that kind of power to feel the compression, it will already be at least 120-130 dB SPL as our bass hearing is less than the mid frequency. I know a Dutch guy who imported most of his expensive headphones from the USA (via head-fi) and had no problems with shipping or paying taxes. Care to introduce him to this forum. We will like to be friends to go into the loop holes. Serious, I will like to learn the "trade' too. Ok, ok, all of us want to know the "trade" too.
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