Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
Wiccan of Darkness said:
MartG said:
HMRC charging VAT on postage paid in the US - add in Royal Mail's £8 handling charge and it nearly doubled the cost of the item I bought 
( without the postage cost it would have been under the £15 threshold )
wtf did you buy? For starters they can't charge you VAT on US postage. They do charge import duty and VAT on certain items based upon the value entered on the CN22.( without the postage cost it would have been under the £15 threshold )
Fill in a BOR286 refund request, there's a threshold of about £30 before you pay anything, if you have a receipt to show the item cost less than that you can get a refund.
Always put the value on the CN22 as below £30.
MartG said:
Wiccan of Darkness said:
MartG said:
HMRC charging VAT on postage paid in the US - add in Royal Mail's £8 handling charge and it nearly doubled the cost of the item I bought
( without the postage cost it would have been under the £15 threshold )
wtf did you buy? For starters they can't charge you VAT on US postage. They do charge import duty and VAT on certain items based upon the value entered on the CN22.( without the postage cost it would have been under the £15 threshold )
Fill in a BOR286 refund request, there's a threshold of about £30 before you pay anything, if you have a receipt to show the item cost less than that you can get a refund.
Always put the value on the CN22 as below £30.
It's a b
d, I know. Worse still, these are import tariffs for items from the USA into the EU (not the UK) so they're european charges. Without wanting to get all political, the EU tariffs on goods arriving in the UK from outside the EU are eye watering. (bag of latvian sugar beet sugar from Lidl - 50p; bag of tate and lyle cane sugar from Africa £1.50)If you can claim it was a gift and cost below £39 you have nothing to lose by downloading the form from the border agency/HMRC website, filling it in and getting a refund. The £8 handling fee is a joke, all they do is whack a purple sticker on it.
Amazon listings where multiple products are sold under the same listing, and hence the customers reviews are for different products and don't say which one it is they're reviewing.
Examples include all the routers in a manufacturer's range, from the cheapest up to the flagship model.
Examples include all the routers in a manufacturer's range, from the cheapest up to the flagship model.
Edited by ClockworkCupcake on Wednesday 31st May 14:42
Second whinge today - must be an age/heat thing...
My PC's scheduled antivirus scan runs once a week and is totally unpredictable as to how long it will take. Sometimes it completes in under an hour, other times it takes several hours.
Today took the biscuit though - 3 hours in, only 65% complete, and the bloody PC crashes
My PC's scheduled antivirus scan runs once a week and is totally unpredictable as to how long it will take. Sometimes it completes in under an hour, other times it takes several hours.
Today took the biscuit though - 3 hours in, only 65% complete, and the bloody PC crashes
ClockworkCupcake said:
People who, to be honest, say "to be honest" rather too often. Which includes my sister, to be honest. It really, to be honest, annoys me beyond reason. To be honest.
At the end of the day, to be fair, you know, that's how it is, you know and to be honest at the end of the day...Like.
Bernd Tost said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
People who, to be honest, say "to be honest" rather too often. Which includes my sister, to be honest. It really, to be honest, annoys me beyond reason. To be honest.
At the end of the day, to be fair, you know, that's how it is, you know and to be honest at the end of the day...Like.
'No offence but...'
Grrr
Faffing about.
The same people come to the same cafeteria at my work every single day and you'd expect them to learn by now that a 5-minute long line could go much faster if they could stop rummaging through their bags in the last moment and pull their change or card while queuing. Instead they act like paying comes as a complete surprise each time, it drives me absolutely mad. Same goes for people getting on a bus and looking for their pass once in, blocking everybody. The driver wants to see your ticket, just like every single time you took the bus in the last 20 years. What a surprise..
Last week I waited for a jet wash in Tesco, one of those where you top up your time with coins. Some young guy was washing his pride and joy with a cloth he brought with him taking forever. After all that he put another pound into the machine and washed that little yellow cloth with the jetwash, squeezed it, washed again, squeezed again, proceeded by opening the boot, rearranging few things and carefully laying that precious piece of fabric flat in the middle of it... My missus was in tears from laughing. Jesus flippin' Christ, get on with it..
The same people come to the same cafeteria at my work every single day and you'd expect them to learn by now that a 5-minute long line could go much faster if they could stop rummaging through their bags in the last moment and pull their change or card while queuing. Instead they act like paying comes as a complete surprise each time, it drives me absolutely mad. Same goes for people getting on a bus and looking for their pass once in, blocking everybody. The driver wants to see your ticket, just like every single time you took the bus in the last 20 years. What a surprise..
Last week I waited for a jet wash in Tesco, one of those where you top up your time with coins. Some young guy was washing his pride and joy with a cloth he brought with him taking forever. After all that he put another pound into the machine and washed that little yellow cloth with the jetwash, squeezed it, washed again, squeezed again, proceeded by opening the boot, rearranging few things and carefully laying that precious piece of fabric flat in the middle of it... My missus was in tears from laughing. Jesus flippin' Christ, get on with it..
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