Import Tax?
 

Hi there. Just tracked my package and noticed that it will arrive tomorrow, however, it has been charged customs tax.

Has anyone else been caught out with this?

Mike - I'm assuming it was not marked as a gift?

Where were the products shipped to? And were these gifts. If someone is caught doing what you suggested in your post it would literally be a shat ( you know the word i mean ) storm of legal issues as well as a federal offence. I doubt Mike is going to risk his livelyhood to save a couple of dollars. Im sure the prices you paid were low enough to cover the pennies of tax. We hope we have your understanding in this matter.

Yer I got some import tax when I orderd, was about £30 when i got my motor and esc, but you can expect that ordering from america.

Yeah I understand it 'HotnCold', just that alot of companies will mark it as a gift.

They were shipped to the UK.

The tax will be around £40 at least, which is $70, depending on how kind they are.

E-maxx-kid, i've bought lots of stuff from america, once I got 3 engines in one box, no charge.

Just remembered darren I remeber you from the days of emaxx-online, me and you had the hv's.

Normal to get import fee's. I paid 150€(200$'ish) on a stormerhobbies order worth 500$. It suck's, but there is no good way around it. Even the gift trick doesn't work anymore. You should tag it something like "Demo material with no commercial value", that seem's to work sometime's.

But anyhow, don't trust all them way's to get around import fee's. It won't work. And like hotncold said, if you get caught, the fee's will be higher.

E-Maxx-Kid - I think i remember you, you got a gorillamaxx chassis right? I've still got the HV, its just that i've bought another maxx to supermaxx it :).

The Gift trick seems to work for me, maybe i'm lucky?

I've had loads of stuff come from the US, and never been taxed. Maybe I'm just lucky... :)

yer, candyman used to take the piss out of your 42mph you claimed from your hv lol

Ive probs paid about 150 now in customs fee's over my last few orders from america.

Yeah, I still hold myself to that claim though.

$150 or $150 ?!

£150

Ouch.

Just back from parcelforce depot, apparently I need to await a letter from customs before I can collect it. Though on the site it says.

"06-04-2006 10:51 Glasgow Central Depot Awaiting payment of charges "

Parcelfarce!

I remember that argument. I think it was more that he ws using the stock gears when everyone(including novak was telling people to use a different gear) besides i think its possible to get 40 out of the system with the proper setup

Well it stayed cool and went like a rocket so i don't care :005:

Just got my B/L ESC and Motor from parcelfarce depot. Motor is beautiful ! :018:

Just gotta figure out how to wire it up !

I forgot to mention. Mike - Your packaging was awesome. Took me about 20 mins to get the thing opened!

Packed with Love. :)

:005: , 5.5mm Connectors that arrived today were also packed well. Thanks again. :018:

Strobe slipper, mod1 pinion and ofna spur were also packed really well. Keep up the awesome work Mike.

Just to let you know. I have finally got my 9xl in one of my E-Maxx's, holy hell this thing flies! Can't thank you enough Mike!

Welcome to enlightenment Darren :cool:

I agree! Also, as I found out yesterday, bumping your EPA up by 20 gains you a li'l speed :027:.

More awesome service from Mike, ordered ubec and blue XL heatsink/clamp on saturday night, posted on monday, recieved wednesday, and I live in the UK! Keep up the great work mike! :018:

The tracking ddn't work for some reason, i'm just gonna guess it went through so quickly, they couldnt track it!

y'know i think i missed import taxes on mine. ive still not got it though, and its been in the uk for 6 working days :032: and no tax letter. parcelforce are kinda stupid and couldnt understand why it wasnt delivered. getting it tomorrow :) cant wait hehe!

Lucky.

Again, more great service from mike. Ordered, motor plate, pinion plugs, wire and they were here in 3 working days!

Going to order another brushles system soon, I now only buy from Mike!

more like unlucky as the warrior 7020 has gone out of stock so i didnt get it (i think me and someone else ordered one in the same day so it went to the other person) so know ive got to wait for it to come back in stock and wait for it to get shipped over (not mikes fault all this, i guess stuff happens, most of the time i get the bad side of it but oh well i shouldnt be complaining)
packed brilliantly though! :027: still going to order fom you though mike! :)
edit: also do you know when the 7020 is going to come back in stock mike?
thanks!
SB

i got the email back from mike and its all goiing to be resolved (im getting a esc direct from the supplier! yay!)
A+ service mike!!!!! http://lincit.myzen.co.uk/modellinc/...fault/good.gif

Mike, your service is UN-BELIEVEABLE!!!!!!

Ordered my Gorillamaxx G2 on thursday at midnight, and mike had it sent by Friday night... and i received it MONDAY MORNING :019: . It's not possible :018: .


Ordered a Quark 125, 10XL, heatsink and pinion on thursday and it hit the UK monday also.

Mike, you are by far my favourite shop to buy stuff from.

Do you/Can you order in Unlimited Engineering parts? I think for all your great service I will have to buy all of the Unlimited Engineering Parts for my Supermaxx through you :018: (Towered VBS, EXT, 8mm Ti CVD'S, Shocks, 8 Spider Diffs). Oh yeah, and my cells and other Gorilla bits.

i agree with you there darren! took exactly as said to hit the uk (5 days) but parcelforce let me down. it took a week after that to get the parcel to me (mike couldnt do anything about that though. neither could parcelforce :032:
the system came packaged well, andis soooooo fast!
ive seen the light :018:

I can tell you all the reason the stuff gets shipped so fast. Its because mike spends his entire day doing exactly that - shipping stuff - from 5:00am to at least 2:00 pm - Its nice of all of you to express your happiness here. I know Mike sees these posts and certainly appreciates them... Can you say Customer Service.....

We can, but I don't think mike can, he's too busy packing our stuff up :018: . You're packaging is absolutely top class ,Mike. Takes me about 10 minutes to get into one of your boxes.

Mike your customer service is the best i've ever came across. :027:

Anyone know if Mike is back online yet?

Waiting to find out if my VBS has arrived at the shop yet. :)

VBS came last week. Very happy with product and service. Snappy respnse to E-Mails too, Mike! Keep up the good work.

Ordered UE CVD's and 8-Spyder diffs too, yesterday :) .