Post-Brexit - buying bike parts abroad . . (incl. Rose/DutchBikeParts)

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Sorry I thought i had tried to close that offtopic diversion above. :)
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SA_SA_SA wrote:Unrelated but too many checks
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/n ... 58174.html

Hardly surprising. That's what we signed up for.
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A that off topic diversion is closed and no it isn t, the ni protocol exists to minimise checks.
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I see Bike24 are now saying "Product not shippable to Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland)" where previously they were saying "Product not shippable to the United Kingdom".
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"The payments giant Visa is to hike fees for purchases made by UK-based customers from most of Europe – stoking fears of higher prices and fuelling the argument that Brexit is adding to the cost of trading with the EU."
https://news.sky.com/story/visa-to-hike-interchange-fees-for-uk-customers-in-post-brexit-move-12247803

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That was utterly predictable when Mastercard made the first move. They do it because they can.
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"I decided, over Christmas, to treat myself to a new £5,000 racing bicycle, but the only place I could source it was a shop in Poland."
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/ ... s-duty-vat

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rogerzilla wrote:That was utterly predictable when Mastercard made the first move. They do it because they can.

Or they do it because they are no longer prevented from doing so due to EU rules, And the UK government haven't created an equivalent rule/law, whether by accident or design.
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RickH wrote:
rogerzilla wrote:That was utterly predictable when Mastercard made the first move. They do it because they can.

Or they do it because they are no longer prevented from doing so due to EU rules, And the UK government haven't created an equivalent rule/law, whether by accident or design.

Or carried out an impact assessment which would have informed the people and Parliament.

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https://www.bikeinn.com/index.php?actio ... idioma=eng
Seem to sell to uk.

Re credit cards if eucommission canlawgully cap their charges why couldn.t uk government, if the rise on charges was unjustifiable?

It doesnt seem a big rise. Buying from mainland Europe means higher postage anyway?
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SA_SA_SA wrote:Re credit cards if eucommission canlawgully cap their charges why couldn.t uk government, if the rise on charges was unjustifiable?

I don't know why they couldn't. I don't think that they have or have announced plans. (And the cap in the EU followed a vote in the Parliament.)

SA_SA_SA wrote:It doesnt seem a big rise. Buying from mainland Europe means higher postage anyway?

I don't follow the logic... because you're paying more on postage it doesn't matter that you have to pay more on this?

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Jdsk wrote:"I decided, over Christmas, to treat myself to a new £5,000 racing bicycle, but the only place I could source it was a shop in Poland."
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/ ... s-duty-vat

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I have some sympathy for that chap, but honestly, who'd take a £5000 punt on a discretionary purchase with the papers full of impending chaos at the border?
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VanMoof's experience in today's Observer:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... trade-hard

Also chocolate bars and malt whisky the other way.

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Jdsk wrote: 4 Apr 2021, 9:12am VanMoof's experience in today's Observer:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... trade-hard

Also chocolate bars and malt whisky the other way.

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Any mention of VanMoof = an excuse to (re)post this video - still makes me smile every time...



Her name is Jasmijn Rijcken, she's not just a pretty face, she actually set up the VanMoof brand. Never tried the 'trick', mind you, but I don't 'bike in a skirt' as they say over there (or even a kilt!) so I wouldn't need to. :)

Anyone wondering about the awesome bike shop in the video, it was (no longer is, sadly - the Citi Bike bike hire initiative, the NY equivalent of Boris Bikes did for it) a business devoted to transportation cycling - HUB - Hudson Urban Bicycles. I suppose it will be a while before we eventually find out what effect Brexit (or even the pandemic) has on the cycling industry.

https://www.amny.com/news/bicycle-shop- ... -him-down/
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Never seen that before!

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