Customs charges.....is it worth supporting 10C?

tino_11

dimitrispearljam said:

custom charges has to do with country laws.not with the company u buy abroad your stuff..
i go to ebay now and see that if i wantr to order an item,i see the shipping and chargestotal..i have to pay..
it would be cool not to pay charges but actually for that to happen 10c must to lie and breeak the law and put on the package its a gift or less total of your order
its not 10c fault countries in europe charge for an incoming package from the usa

I agree, my issue was that they shipped separately which means I have to pay the £16 in Royal Mail handling fees rather than £8. But that said, it worked out better for the poster above so maybe 10c just can't win on this issue!

pljam

Use to be a 10c purchasing junkie,between time to arrive and more so shipping cost to Australia ,(though I know that is out of 10c hands)
I kicked my habit
After all it's about the music and I can get that here and support small business on home ground

silvo

I completely agree it's not 10C's fault when it comes to customs charges, and the weak pound definitely isn't helping with this at the moment. However, is there not a way around it.....I'm not asking 10C to break any laws for me but at the same time it must be possible, I didn't pay any charges on the third man vault package which had a much higher retail value??

nigel

TMR cleverly get round the charges by stating that you pay for your Vault subscription (with all other online benefits) - and then get the vinyl for a cost that takes it below customs charge. If you order stuff outside of the quarterly vault from TMR then you still get hit.
One solution is for 10c to ship from Europe (which has been done in the past) or even better have a European store...

silvo said:

I completely agree it's not 10C's fault when it comes to customs charges, and the weak pound definitely isn't helping with this at the moment. However, is there not a way around it.....I'm not asking 10C to break any laws for me but at the same time it must be possible, I didn't pay any charges on the third man vault package which had a much higher retail value??

pdalowsky

chelsea48 said:

If 10C just put gift on the label!! Well maybe bending rules but i wont tell!!

Im not sure that would help 95% of the time as the value of the allowed gift is only slightly higher. The only way to avoid this would be to misdeclare the value and naturally they cannot do that as a professional outfit.

A european store is an option but they really dont need to do that, the cost would be significant which would have to be passed on to customers, and it works already from Seattle.

Kearn5y

Wont help the UK with after they leave the EU

nigel said:

TMR cleverly get round the charges by stating that you pay for your Vault subscription (with all other online benefits) - and then get the vinyl for a cost that takes it below customs charge. If you order stuff outside of the quarterly vault from TMR then you still get hit.
One solution is for 10c to ship from Europe (which has been done in the past) or even better have a European store...

silvo said:

I completely agree it's not 10C's fault when it comes to customs charges, and the weak pound definitely isn't helping with this at the moment. However, is there not a way around it.....I'm not asking 10C to break any laws for me but at the same time it must be possible, I didn't pay any charges on the third man vault package which had a much higher retail value??

pdalowsky

Kearn5y said:

Wont help the UK with after they leave the EU

nigel said:

TMR cleverly get round the charges by stating that you pay for your Vault subscription (with all other online benefits) - and then get the vinyl for a cost that takes it below customs charge. If you order stuff outside of the quarterly vault from TMR then you still get hit.
One solution is for 10c to ship from Europe (which has been done in the past) or even better have a European store...

silvo said:

I completely agree it's not 10C's fault when it comes to customs charges, and the weak pound definitely isn't helping with this at the moment. However, is there not a way around it.....I'm not asking 10C to break any laws for me but at the same time it must be possible, I didn't pay any charges on the third man vault package which had a much higher retail value??

they can have a UK store too LOL....

Gibbon to Fly

Received No Code this morning in the UK ........ £11.85 charge.

xnothingmanx

Arrived this morning. Another charge. After the TOTD and MLB packages arrive, which will be another 2 charges, that's it for me. Unless it is explicitly limited edition I'll wait for Amazon to list them.

MRMACPHISTO75

MLB is more in Sterling on Amazon Uk, than it is in dollars on here at the moment! £76.21 on Amazon Uk and $59.98 on here! Obviously before postage and customs charges though!!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_10?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=mother+love+bone&sprefix=Mother+lov,aps,181

Tim Simmons

silvo said:

I took a punt on these in the hopes of a variant

I mean, this is the answer to question asked here (And in other threads). Well that plus 10c listed it first and people don't want to miss out on something Pearl Jam related.

silvo

Bizarrely I received my No Code the other day and there was no customs charge, even though it clearly stated $24.99 as the value on the label!! Must have just slipped the net.
Now just got to wait and see what happens with Vault 6? Never had a customs charge on these before so maybe they can manage to label them in the same way to avoid that again? Or is it that previous ones have come from Europe??

FR181798

PJ_Soul said:

Unless it is a 10C exclusive (which is pretty often), I don't think anyone should ever buy straight from 10C. Their shipping is way too much and way too inefficient. I will probably still buy one copy of any brand new album from 10C just because of the 10C variant possibility. I sure wouldn't buy any reissues through them or anything else that can be bought elsewhere. If they ever fix their AWFUL shipping issues, especially to Canada, which I think is the most egregious problem they have, even worse than other places overseas, I'd be happy to buy everything from them. All that said, I've never been dinged on customs charges with 10C. Their shipping price vs service alone is enough of a deterrent for me.... Of course, I still order stuff from them all the time because they are so often the only place to buy items from.

Agreed, if it is very limited edition or exclusive through 10c buy but for just standard reissues etc. I wouldnt bother. Really slow postage and import charges - no thanks. Not trying to make anyone feel bad but I got Yield and No Code for £14.99 each including postage. I got them the Saturday morning after release day. I posted where I got them from and a few others ordered from the same place.

If you ordered everything from 10c in the same order and they just shipped it separate without notifying you then you definitely have cause to make a complaint. It's not the import tax that is expensive it's the handling charge.

FR181798

MRMACPHISTO75 said:

MLB is more in Sterling on Amazon Uk, than it is in dollars on here at the moment! £76.21 on Amazon Uk and $59.98 on here! Obviously before postage and customs charges though!!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_10?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=mother+love+bone&sprefix=Mother+lov,aps,181

If you order it on Amazon.com they will add the import tax then you won't have to pay handling when it arrives.

AceCool

Yeah customs sucks. Just so you Limeys know, it works equally the other way. I bought a sweet pair of English made shoes and had them shipped to me in the States. I got jacked for VAT and US customs tot he tune of about 25% of the purchase price.

rockpants

I paid another $25.72 to pick up the deluxe TOTD thingie today from Canada Post. That said, I don't think I've paid a customs charge on something from the 10C in almost a decade, so either my memory is shite* (quite possible) or I just have horseshoes up my arse (also quite possible).

*t I don't recall paying customs charges for the Ten or Vs/Vitalogy Super Deluxe, which are cost-comparable. (I don't know if cost-comparable is an actual phrase, but I think it makes sense.)

pdalowsky

rockpants said:

I paid another $25.72 to pick up the deluxe TOTD thingie today from Canada Post. That said, I don't think I've paid a customs charge on something from the 10C in almost a decade, so either my memory is shite* (quite possible) or I just have horseshoes up my arse (also quite possible).

*t I don't recall paying customs charges for the Ten or Vs/Vitalogy Super Deluxe, which are cost-comparable. (I don't know if cost-comparable is an actual phrase, but I think it makes sense.)

LOL

xnothingmanx

TOTD deluxe came today in the UK. I had to pay customs for Yield (19.99) and No Code (24.99) but have seemingly got away with TOTD (99.99)

xnothingmanx

xnothingmanx said:

TOTD deluxe came today in the UK. I had to pay customs for Yield (19.99) and No Code (24.99) but have seemingly got away with TOTD (99.99)

Wasn't expecting TOTD so (relatively) quickly either!

sj9966

Getting hit but UK customs is purely down to luck. It just depends on the day of arrival into the UK what international packages get stopped & checked. They do not check everything. I have had as much stuff get through without charges as I've had with charges.