If I buy a CPU from an American website for $120, plus $25 for shipping to this country, I believe I'll have to pay VAT when it gets here, plus a 'handling charge', plus import duty?
Will the VAT be on the total amount ($145)? Anyone know what the other costs will be, and if there's a (legal) way of avoiding/reducing them?
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HMRC page here: www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/tax-and-duty.htm
Looks like you'd pay VAT at 20% on total cost including shipping. No duty as £ cost is below the floor limit. You may also find the shipper charging you a fee for dealing with HMRC. AFAIK the postie or other carrier will collect thee cash before handing over the package.
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I wouldn't bother, unless its one you can't get over here, the price savings are not enough to make it worth while.
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It's via the company scheme - $145 (= £108 with VAT approx?) for an i5-4690k, versus £175 on ebuyer. So I think it probably would be, but it does depend on that shipper's handling charge.
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>> It's via the company scheme - $145 (= £108 with VAT approx?) for an i5-4690k,
>> versus £175 on ebuyer. So I think it probably would be, but it does depend
>> on that shipper's handling charge.
Is that the retail version? with fan?
I can get an I5 4690k retail, (boxed with fan) for £154.39 inc. VAT (plus shipping)
Does your mobo support it?
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>> Is that the retail version? with fan?
yes
>> Does your mobo support it?
Just picked that one out of the air to get some idea of potential savings.
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Focusless
I arrived to stay with friends in CA late yesterday . If you want to contact me via the mods you are welcome to have to posted to their home address and I can bring it back with me on the 9 Oct.
Glorious sun in Sacramento under cloudless skies. Here in a Placerville pouring with rain today. Their first in months, and helping with the major fire just up the road. Almost 100,000 acres scorched and over 6,000 firefighters involved from as far away as Alaska & Florida. Off to SF this weekend to watch the Giants then flying to Vegas for a few days fun in the sun.
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>> I arrived to stay with friends in CA late yesterday . If you want to
>> contact me via the mods you are welcome to have to posted to their home
>> address and I can bring it back with me on the 9 Oct.
That's very kind of you legacylad, but there's been a change of plan. It was for another family member, whose primary objective was to change his motherboard for one that supported 6Gb SATA to maximise the performance of his new SSD drive. His current board with 3Gb SATA is 1155, and he thought they'd been replaced by 1150, so he was wondering how much he'd have to spend to find a new CPU to go with the new board.
Now I know the full story I've pointed him at ebuyer who still have 49 types of 1155 board. Many thanks anyway.
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Your welcome
I have absolutely no idea what you mean. I never was any good at foreign languages. Still pouring with rain here but only a few hours till Happy Hour (s) down at the Independent Bar in Placerville. Anything else you need let me know...
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>> I have absolutely no idea what you mean.
Ah, sorry - I should have stopped at 'change of plan' :)
Enjoy your trip - loved it when we were over there a few years ago, until that Icelandic volcano blew and we got stuck in SF; got a bit stressful after that!
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Vegas is truly weird. I was there last year for a business trip. About 4.00 one morning, disoriented by the time change I was wide awake and in need of a coffee and a croissant. I walked downstairs ( I was in a hotel on the strip shaped like a pyramid, can't remember its name but it was fairly horrific anyway )
Well, bearing in mind it was 4.00 in the morning I crossed the casino area on the ground floor and my eye was taken by a girl in what remained of her bridal outfit, sitting alone at a roulette table, about half a pint of whisky in her tumbler, clearly ratted and betting huge piles of chips on spins of the wheel. I didn't stop to chat but I did wonder what that story was.
Huge quantities of seriously fat people there too.
One of the only places I've been to in recent years where indoor smoking is still permitted in certain areas of hotels too. Ironic really as I had at that time only relatively recently given up, not too much for health or wealth reasons but mainly because it had become so damned inconvenient to be a smoker. All that lurking about outside with fellow social lepers was getting on my nerves. Although I do have to say, some of the more interesting people I've ever met and chance conversations I've ever had were with fellow snoutcasts.
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Thu 25 Sep 14 at 19:53
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>> One of the only places I've been to in recent years where indoor smoking is still permitted in certain areas of hotels too.
So it does have a civilised side.
Have to say I gave it a miss when I had the chance to go there, back in the seventies when you could smoke anywhere. I just didn't fancy it, I'm a bad gambler and dislike the company of gangsters.
It's a sort of late-adolescent Disneyland for American adults and foreign tourists.
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That would be the Luxor Runfer. Last time I was in Vegas July 2012, I had a ball. I was dragged there, kicking & screaming, by a CA friend. Being an outdoorsy person, I always prefer nature made to man made, so was amazed that I enjoyed it. We stayed on the 234th floor of the Venetian with stunning views across to the mountains. We walked the Strip end to end in the morning and early afternoon, then chilled by the pool until 6pm. Scorching hot and chatted to lots of interesting South American folks.
Cheap flights with Southwest out of LAX, return to SMF about £150 this time. Next week we are paying £108 in total for two nights at the SiS Casino Hotel. Midweek room rates are pretty cheap.
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>That would be the Luxor Runfer.
The first time you use a lift, sorry elevator, in the Luxor can be a bit disconcerting. They look out over the casino floor and are inclined at about 45deg. Weird feeling.
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Luxor yes indeed that was it. I'd forgotten about the funny lifts. Dreadful place, in my opinion anyway. I was attending a trade show at the Mandalay Bay next door.
Cheap enough trip now I come to think. Return Virgin ( ok steerage seats ) flights and 4 nights in the not-very-Lux-or for under a grand I want to remember. Expedia deal. I find them pretty good generally.
Great views of the desert flying in and out. Got unintentionally completely hissed with some random Mexicans one night.
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>> I enjoyed it. We stayed on the 234th floor of the Venetian with stunning views
>> across to the mountains.
Yes we stayed in the Venetian, first time I had ever had my car valet parked. 4000 rooms I seem to recall. Had to queue for 30 mins to check in even tho they had a gazzilion check in desks. Never ever check in at a Vegas hotel on Saturday lunch time!
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Buying CPU online in USA - import costs? - Bromptonaut
