Help! Trying to send a dashboard to Indonesia!
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Greetings everyone.
I've agreed to do a friend of a friend a favour and pick up a dashboard for him and send it to Indonesia. It's a dash for an early Beetle and apparently the guy is a renowned VW and early Porsche collector. I thought it would be cool to do someone I'd never met but who is part of the car community a good deed just for the sake of it.
I went to Wakefield in my car, about two months before the first lockdown happened and collected the thing for him, and then of course the world changed. Things are getting back to normal here so I've been trying to figure out how to send it, without a massive amount of success. The post office guy more or less laughed when I said where it was going, and something about old car parts can't be sent out of the UK, which sounded a bit odd.
I've got this thing all parcelled up, bubble wrap, the lot, and for me this is already an epic achievement, given I have the general handiness of Mr Bean.
But I honestly don't know what to do next. Most shippers I've spoken to seem to only deal with trade contracts. The thing measures 20 x 18 x 48" (508 x 457 x 1219mm) and I guess it's no more than 6 or 7 kilos.
Without trying to put too fine a point on it... HELP!
Seriously, any moderately sympathetic and practical comments invited.
Thanks all,
Joseph
I've agreed to do a friend of a friend a favour and pick up a dashboard for him and send it to Indonesia. It's a dash for an early Beetle and apparently the guy is a renowned VW and early Porsche collector. I thought it would be cool to do someone I'd never met but who is part of the car community a good deed just for the sake of it.
I went to Wakefield in my car, about two months before the first lockdown happened and collected the thing for him, and then of course the world changed. Things are getting back to normal here so I've been trying to figure out how to send it, without a massive amount of success. The post office guy more or less laughed when I said where it was going, and something about old car parts can't be sent out of the UK, which sounded a bit odd.
I've got this thing all parcelled up, bubble wrap, the lot, and for me this is already an epic achievement, given I have the general handiness of Mr Bean.
But I honestly don't know what to do next. Most shippers I've spoken to seem to only deal with trade contracts. The thing measures 20 x 18 x 48" (508 x 457 x 1219mm) and I guess it's no more than 6 or 7 kilos.
Without trying to put too fine a point on it... HELP!
Seriously, any moderately sympathetic and practical comments invited.
Thanks all,
Joseph
Watch the import tax.
In order to boost manufacturing and sales within the country last year the govt raised the import tax and lowered the threshold.
Now you pay import tax on anything over USD$ 5.00.
It can be as much as 100%.
There a few exceptions, text books are one. A car dashboard won’t be!
eBay has become very expensive, unless you can get the vendor to mark your purchase down to a value of $5 or less.
On the flip side the local equivalents of Amazon (like shopee) as doing well. Given a real boost to garment industry as well.
I looked at buying my wife a £100 dress off eBay. Vendor using global shipping programme. Total cost to me was £220 in total.
In order to boost manufacturing and sales within the country last year the govt raised the import tax and lowered the threshold.
Now you pay import tax on anything over USD$ 5.00.
It can be as much as 100%.
There a few exceptions, text books are one. A car dashboard won’t be!
eBay has become very expensive, unless you can get the vendor to mark your purchase down to a value of $5 or less.
On the flip side the local equivalents of Amazon (like shopee) as doing well. Given a real boost to garment industry as well.
I looked at buying my wife a £100 dress off eBay. Vendor using global shipping programme. Total cost to me was £220 in total.
ISTR that car parts have a fairly high tariff, as there is a considerable local industry. Plus the amusing story of the Garuda president being busted for importing classic motorbike & parts from Amsterdam without declaring it...
If your friend of a friend is a porche/ vw collector in Indonesia though, he almost certainly will have needed to import parts before. Why not just contact him and ask how best to send it?
If your friend of a friend is a porche/ vw collector in Indonesia though, he almost certainly will have needed to import parts before. Why not just contact him and ask how best to send it?
wisbech said:
ISTR that car parts have a fairly high tariff, as there is a considerable local industry. Plus the amusing story of the Garuda president being busted for importing classic motorbike & parts from Amsterdam without declaring it...
If your friend of a friend is a porche/ vw collector in Indonesia though, he almost certainly will have needed to import parts before. Why not just contact him and ask how best to send it?
If his friend is a Porsche collector in Indonesia, he really won’t be worried about the costs.If your friend of a friend is a porche/ vw collector in Indonesia though, he almost certainly will have needed to import parts before. Why not just contact him and ask how best to send it?
He will be used to paying 150-200% tax on his cars anyway!
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