watch trader on ebay from the states

[bzh1p9]

Has anyone any experiance of buying watches from the states , currantly looking at a couple of ladies tags
any idea of the import duty I might expect to pay , is it a % per £100 ??
any experience especically of wristwatchtrader , his feedback looks to be good
( would welcome pm if worried about name & shame )

thanks in advance , Ian
(sp)

Edited by bzh1p9 on Tuesday 13th March 19:23

[andy_s]

Expect about 20% and some change.

[Ikemi]

Import duty is 20% of the overall value, plus a handling fee of around £20. I'd personally get in contact Dominic H at www.hackettwatches.com to see what sort of price he can do for you ... He has bought, sold and sourced watches for lots of us here on Pistonheads He can obtain some good prices on Tag watches too; I'd hazard a guess better than the US seller + import fees!

[sparkyhx]

its pot luck, I've bought about 8 watches from abroad and only 1 has been 'caught' but cos it was a cheap watch the addition of the the handling fee (robbing b'stds) + Duty and Vat, it almost doubled the cost of the watch.

Dearer the watch the less of a % hit the handling fee is.