Buying a drone

[V10leptoquark]

I am thinking of buying a FIMI X8 4k drone and it seems all drones have to be bought via some chinese website to get a reasonable price.

So I'm looking at a website called Gearbest which is a Hong Kong origin supplier but has a "UK website section" to cater for UK orders.

One question I have is ; does anyone have any experience of buying/importing drones in to the UK from Hong Kong origin websites, and does one need to pay import duty as an addition to the advertised price? (If so, any ball park figures on this?)

Cheers.

[GeneralSinn]

Used GearBeat loads for phones and odds and ends. Had to pay customs charges each time which is annoying as the admin fee associated is often steep.

[V10leptoquark]

Out of interest what sort of ball park figure were these customs charges?

[GeneralSinn]

The last one was about £13 (including £5 admin fee) on a phone that was about £90ish IIRC

[Order66]

V10leptoquark said:

Out of interest what sort of ball park figure were these customs charges?

3.5% duty and 20%VAT needs to be paid + a handling charge to the shipper (if I recall correctly). Could be approaching 25% all-in.

[anonymous-user]

Most Chinese exporters will mark the value on the declaration much lower than the real value so often the vat and duty element is low.

[V10leptoquark]

Cheers.
I guess not too bad then.

[.:ian:.]

Bought loads of stuff from gearbest and have never paid any duty. If you choose GB priority shipping it will be shipped from the UK (they seem to bulk ship loads of orders to the UK then send the individual orders from the UK (or at least in the EU)