Swedish camping equipment

[honesty]

So, silly question, but is Swedish camping equipment cheaper in Sweden? For example Tragia's and Hilleberg tents? I'm in need of a new tent and Im going to see family over there in the new year...

[looe]

Hilleberg Nallo 2 GT can be bought in Sweden for 6995 Swedish crowns which in £ is around £652. More here: http://www.prisjakt.nu/kategori.php?k=902&t=4204 Hope that helps

[pjclinch]

Google is your friend (sort of)... A quick trawl through Hilleberg suppliers in Sweden and the UK and a currency converter suggests you're just as screwed there as you are here

However, if you can get to the US for a holiday they're cheaper there... (Scandanavian taxes are and cost of living are high, along with quality of life).

Pete.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Bought an American tent made in chima from the US, £50 + £25 post.
Still cheaper than UK £88
Googles and Ebays is your friend.......................

[rualexander]

15 years ago I flew to Sweden and visited a couple of friends and bought a hilleberg stalon all for about the same cost as buying the tent here in the uk. But the exchange rate was good back then.

[andrew_s]

Bought an American tent made in chima from the US, £50 + £25 post.
Still cheaper than UK £88

Plus, if Customs and Excise had got hold of it, £15 VAT, £10 (ish) handling charge, plus duty (no idea), which at over £100 is more than UK price.
The trouble is that you've no idea whether what you buy will get caught by C&E or not. It could be a nasty shock it you didn't make allowance for the extra.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

Bought an American tent made in chima from the US, £50 + £25 post.
Still cheaper than UK £88

Plus, if Customs and Excise had got hold of it, £15 VAT, £10 (ish) handling charge, plus duty (no idea), which at over £100 is more than UK price.
The trouble is that you've no idea whether what you buy will get caught by C&E or not. It could be a nasty shock it you didn't make allowance for the extra.

Probably true fair point, I think that recovering all that duty for ALL the small items I buy outside EU ? would bring customs and excise to bankruptcy.
I would be happy to hand over the dosh to catch all the 420K imigrants and recover the billions in unpaid duty by the exiles who were under their nose's and the the bringing to book the large firms who have had their tax bill wiped clean
Beside the point I know, I wont lose sleep over it.

If Greece HAD recovered the unpaid income tax ( 40 Billion Euros ) they would'nt of needed the second bail out.
I am all for fairness but too many mates mates. Greece would still go under we know that, and we've all forgotten about the euro crisis.
I have no doupt that customs are already estimating how much revenue is lost on website sales..........

When I phoned a well known leisure shop in exeter to ask about said tent they wer'nt even interested in getting one in stock, despite the actual tent being a real winner on weight and head hieght.
Solo tent market is ripe for picking for a manufacture to tick all the boxes, you just need a tent enthusiast to design the tent rather than flappy tents that blow down when they reduce the pegging points.

[andrew_s]

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I think that recovering all that duty for ALL the small items I buy outside EU ? would bring customs and excise to bankruptcy.

Customs & Excise don't do the work: they lean on the Royal Mail, UPS, DataPost etc so that they do it. It's what the £10 (ish) extra handling charge pays for.

Unlike a private individual, there's very little scope for a business to avoid tax & duty. I dare say the Exeter shop were well aware of what the overheads of ordering from the US were, and also that the customer would most likely be seduced away by the US headline price and DIY.
As an example of how the price would increase, a Tarptent Scarp 1 (a very nice solo tent) is $315 if ordered from the US, but when imported into the EU costs €449.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
I would imagine that there is a limit which below goods are exempt from import tax on a individual item
You used to be able to import from off shore UK islands printer carts, they were exempt from import duty.
I know that that door has now been closed on that specific island ( gersey gurnsey) , alot of the small items I buy are exempt / or are specified as "Gift" even if the carriers could be bothered the cost of retrieval of tax would outway the tax owed, they could always slap a sticker on the parcel, maybe they do to frighten us punters

[andrew_s]

I would imagine that there is a limit which below goods are exempt from import tax on a individual item

For VAT it's a total value, including postage, of £15. If I remember correctly, the limit used to be £18 when I got stuff from 7dayshop on Guernsey.
Things marked "gift" are fee of VAT up to £36 (*)
Duty is more generous - it is waived if the duty payable is less than £9, and duty is only charged on items of more than £135
These are per consignment limits, so if you order two of something that costs £13+£ 2p&p, you have to get them sent separately, with two lots of p&p, to avoid VAT.

(*) receiving commercial items marked as "gift" when they aren't is a criminal offence (though the chances of being prosecuted are minute), and in some cases (eg the US) the sender can also be prosecuted by their own government. HMRC are possessed of very big sticks, so if they do come asking for money, the only practical course of action is to grovel, plead ignorance, and pay up promptly.

[nmnm]

Jings, this thread took an odd swerve a few posts back there, didn't it?

I would be happy to hand over the dosh to catch all the 420K imigrants

420k was the UK population growth, not immigration. More than half that number (250 000) is from us having more births than deaths (happy face! ). If you want to be furious at a number, immigration minus migration was 69000.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

Jings, this thread took an odd swerve a few posts back there, didn't it?

I would be happy to hand over the dosh to catch all the 420K imigrants

420k was the UK population growth, not immigration. More than half that number (250 000) is from us having more births than deaths (happy face! ). If you want to be furious at a number, immigration minus migration was 69000.

Sorry duff info, cant find the fiques at the moment.

In 2012 there were 1 in 300 people on our soil seeking assylum, thats pending as of then. 198,000
Stats are not accurate and its estimated that 300,000 failed assylum seekers on UK soil.

I received a parcel from china / east somewhere today and normally it says gift whatever, lots of guff about criminality.
The box ticked said something else but could not read it, fact is that some of the stuff I receive retails for up to ten times that much in UK retail shops.
Even If I paid the lot over ten years or more of buying over seas, it will be small change.
If the sender ticks box gift etc I am off the hook I recon.....................

[looe]

Wrong forum for this init?

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Yeh But Yeh But..........whos watching

[looe]

Hi,
Yeh But Yeh But..........whos watching

Watch it because I am Swedish not racist