New - The things that really annoy you

[Wolftone]

As in...?
(example?)

Trump/Tulsi Gabbard

 

[Alan]

As in...?
(example?)

With respect, I think it’s clear where such has just occurred.

 

[Wolftone]

West Midlands Trains and their alledged Customer Services. Try to claim refund, as train didn't complete the journey forcing us to get an Uber to the airport. App wouldn't allow refund as tickets had been 'used'.
Tried ringing them, 12 minutes of being 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, 1st' 1'st in queue with intermittent music and spiel, to finally get through to an alledged person who's mailbox was full and couldn't accept anymore messages, goodbye'
Absolute arseholes.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Bought 2 small pieces on line from a guy in Cornwall.
one was a tiny plastic water pump. about 4mm. hardly the width of your little finger nail.
second was a card kit that when made up formed a farmyard gate. About 2cm long.
It was clearly marked GIFT. Value £0.50.
Gate clearly marked GIFT £0.50.
English Customs put a value of this at £68.95!!
The Irish Customs therefore levied Duty and VAT and a Admin fee.
So I had to pay €20.80 to receive this gift valued at £1.00.
Absolute cunts! Bandit country.
It really isn't worth buying ANYTHING from the UK.
What the fuck were you thinking when you left Europe!

Except it wasn't a 'gift' and was a commercial transaction, so 'Sale of Goods' should have been chosen. If customs believe a 'low' value has been applied to reduce tax or duty payable then a higher figure will be applied that is thought to be reasonable or more reflective of true value. An administration charge for the collection of tax/duty will also apply. N.B. items under £2 are rarely accepted by Irish customs as correctly priced.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Both the Irish Revenue and the UK inland revenue making an absolute killing charging VAT and duty on imports (along with the shipping companies with administration fees).
It's Trumps 'tariffs' by any other name.
Doesn't affect China here though funnily enough. Governments are globalist WEF scum.

Because the UK is no longer in the EU but Ireland is, there is no longer a free trade agreement. Exports from the UK are normally zero rated from a VAT perspective but when purchased by recipients based in the EU then the destination countries VAT rate will be applied (e.g. DE is 19%, IE is 23% etc)

 

[Wolftone]

N.B. items under £2 are rarely accepted by Irish customs as correctly priced.

Unless they're from China.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Except it wasn't a 'gift' and was a commercial transaction, so 'Sale of Goods' should have been chosen. If customs believe a 'low' value has been applied to reduce tax or duty payable then a higher figure will be applied that is thought to be reasonable or more reflective of true value. An administration charge for the collection of tax/duty will also apply. N.B. items under £2 are rarely accepted by Irish customs as correctly priced.

Interesting reply. Although I didn't actually buy them. I wanted or enquired after them and he scrounged around and found the gate on the back of a shelf, opened and partly used but the bit I wanted was there, so he gave me that. The tiny pump he got free from a supplier as no longer wanted, so he tossed that in too. Valued them both as £0.50 and marked them as a GIFT. No money changed hands.
It wasn't even sent from a company, it was in a plain little flat box, from his house.
What irked me was that if they wanted to they could easily have checked on line and a complete kit of the gate would be found at around £4.50 and I believe the pump (would have come as a pair) would be got for less than £4.00.
To arbitrarily value them at €69.95 then charge me VAT of €16.85 then €4.95 admin fee is galloping headlong into bandit country.
My daughter bought a little set of guitar picks for £3.99.
Customs valued them at €11.64 and charged me €7.62

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

In the instance of your daughters picks, the value attributed by customs of €11.64 would probably have had 23% VAT (tax) applied and the admin fee for collecting it would therefore have probably have been €4.95 to get to €7.62. My guess is it wasn't an AnPost delivery as their admin fee is €3.50 or €10.00 depending on the item, but Nightingales, Fastway, Coll8 etc may have a charge of €4.95.
Only C2C transactions are Gifts and shouldn't have any monetary value. As soon as there's a value [and customs systems don't like £0.00, £0.01, £0.10 etc [anything small] or a B2C or B2B transaction then it should be Sale of Goods. Even businesses sending 'free' workwear, diaries, stationary to employees abroad need to declare a value (manufacturing cost normally).

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

P.S. Irish admin fees go up soon as well

 

[Wolf Hunting]

P.S. Irish admin fees go up soon as well

Yes, it's currently €4.95 going up to 5.95 in a month.
Your answers are very knowledgeable, are you in that business?

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

In essence yes

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Bought a lemon tree a few days ago. 4ft, looked really good. Hadn't planted it yet, last night heavy downpour, bloody thing broke. Now 1ft.

 

[Wolftone]

Bought a lemon tree a few days ago. 4ft, looked really good. Hadn't planted it yet, last night heavy downpour, bloody thing broke. Now 1ft.

A lemon tree my dear Watson.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

A lemon tree my dear Watson.

Took me a moment.

 

[Wolftone]

A 'specimen' hawthorn that we have grew to about 10ft, it is a lovely tree which is covered in bright pink blossom in the spring. Got up one morning after a storm to see it snapped off at more or less ground level.
My mrs said 'oh, and that was my favourite tree' .
It grew back from the remaining stump, it's now about 15ft and in a nicer shape than it was originally, so there's hope for your lemon tree!
Might just have to wait a couple of years for it to recover though

 

[EpsomWolf]

A lemon tree my dear Watson.

Oh top man! That’s the wife’s birthday present sorted too (she’s Dr. Watson).

Quality. Took me a while but very good sir.

 

[slink]

Heard a loud popping noise from the arch of my foot and felt like i’d been shot playing football. Been to a&e and because i haven’t broken any bones told to give it a couple of weeks and contact gp if it isn’t any better.

Not sure whether i’m more annoyed that i can’t walk, the pain, that i won’t be playing football for a while or that they were so sure i had done my achilles when i first walked in to 10 minutes later being told to take ibuprofen and ice it. Then looked to see if we had done any last minute business…

 

[AndyWolves]

My mom is in hospital at the moment and lord i love the NHS as a concept but it ain't half infuriating to deal with and understand what the bloody hell is going on

 

[Alan]

A lemon tree my dear Watson.

I’m furious at how good this is

 

[Alan]

My mom is in hospital at the moment and lord i love the NHS as a concept but it ain't half infuriating to deal with and understand what the bloody hell is going on

If it helps, private sector healthcare is also an opaque black box. At least it is here.

Thinking of you and yours, hope whatever’s going on with your mother isn’t too heavy and/or passes quickly.