Re: Import games tax collection fee?

deKay wrote: 
Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 24 Jan
2006 19:25:45 -0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.playstation, yawatina tan reek esk "Gareth"
<hotmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxx> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:


I made the silly mistake of miscalculating a currency conversion and was charged the best part of £10 by the Royal Mail as their collection fee for a smaller amount of duty - I was only 80 pence or so over the allowed duty free limit. 


You were lucky.  I was at the Royal Mail depot near here the other day paying
a £7.60 fee on a £28 purchase, and the woman behind the counter said "those
fees are awful, aren't they?  You know, I bought my son a game from eBay from
someone in America.  $2 it cost me, and when it arrived, they'd slapped a £47
fee on it".


£47!?!?!
.

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