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Shlippery

Placed order sunday night, out for delivery this morning! I think we're back in business.
https://i.imgur.com/RufH1J2.png

errlloyd

Shlippery wrote: »

Placed order sunday night, out for delivery this morning! I think we're back in business.
https://i.imgur.com/RufH1J2.png

Placed an Order on January 21st. It's in stock.

Predicted delivery on the 15th.

It is currently in "Belgium"

briany

If you get stuff that's delivered 'by Amazon', who's doing the last mile delivery? Nightline? Fastway? Lads in white transit vans?

The Raging Bile Duct

briany wrote: »

If you get stuff that's delivered 'by Amazon', who's doing the last mile delivery? Nightline? Fastway? Lads in white transit vans?

As far as I know, Amazon now have their own fleet of delivery vans here so it's themselves. If you tracking number starts with GA it's being delivered by Amazon themselves.

ED E

briany wrote: »

If you get stuff that's delivered 'by Amazon', who's doing the last mile delivery? Nightline? Fastway? Lads in white transit vans?

Amazon contractors.

Yggr of Asgard

briany wrote: »

If you get stuff that's delivered 'by Amazon', who's doing the last mile delivery? Nightline? Fastway? Lads in white transit vans?

Subcontractors in vans of assorted colors or even your local horse drawn carriage.

Amazon is doing their own last mile in some region with outsourced providers.

Parcelking is one of them.

zell12

Amazon-branded freight and trucks are pictured at Rosslare Harbour, on 27 January, 2021
“By avoiding the Brexit pipeline, Amazon can get their parcels to us in An Post faster for immediate delivery to the customer..."

The Continental Op

zell12 wrote: »

Amazon-branded freight and trucks are pictured at Rosslare Harbour, on 27 January, 2021
“By avoiding the Brexit pipeline, Amazon can get their parcels to us in An Post faster for immediate delivery to the customer..."

But the question is which ferry are they coming off? UK or France.

whiterebel

French is stuffed every sailing, apparently. UK not so much

zell12

The Continental Op wrote: »

But the question is which ferry are they coming off? UK or France.

They are coming from France to Rosslare, then to Rathcoole warehouse. Skips Britain entirely

fryup

zell12 wrote: »

“By avoiding the Brexit pipeline, Amazon can get their parcels to us in An Post faster for immediate delivery to the customer..."

so if i was to buy something online from the UK and the seller uses a courier...would i be better off to request regular post from the seller to avoid the duty & vat?

corkie

^^^ You will probably get caught for it no matter what. Check the courier customs handling fee to see which is cheaper?

fryup

^^^^^^^^^

i suppose it depends on the value of the item i'm buying??

ED E

Order Monday 1AM, delivered AMZL Tuesday afternoon. Came from Manchester.

hkjohn

hkjohn wrote: »

Having got through series 1 of the Bureau only for Amazon to pull the plug on customers in Ireland, just bought the 5-series box set from Amazon France (it was about E60 cheaper than on AUK). Arrived no problems - and more importantly no duty charges within a few days.

Do not (yet!) seem to have been charged tax or duty from anything I've ordered from AUK. Fingers crossed this state of affairs will continue.

The Bureau arrived from Am Fr in good time and with no duty to pay. Still getting small deliveries of stuff from Am UK (mainly CDs) and - fingers crossed - have yet to be charged any import duty

daheff

skinny90 wrote: »

Ordered something on Sunday from Amazon Uk, paid a little extra charge (think its import costs) and it arrived today :eek:

Im a prime customer i was expecting at least a week.

So far so normal with Amazon minus the little extra charge but sure if its not too much i wont mind

lucky you

i ordered a dog collar early jan...still not arrived. The seller won't cancel the order either now.

hkjohn

Third party sellers can be real b*****s.

What you should do is run a negative review
as it generally gees them into action

whiterebel

hkjohn wrote: »

The Bureau arrived from Am Fr in good time and with no duty to pay. Still getting small deliveries of stuff from Am UK (mainly CDs) and - fingers crossed - have yet to be charged any import duty

Amazon.fr is in the EU, there won't be any additional charges, they already charge VAT.
It's not Dutiable until the value is over €150, from outside the EU. Again, unless it is specifically duty, all it is is the VAT.

errlloyd

How long is the Belgium customs clearing taken?

Mine went in at 5pm Sunday afternoon and no movement. It's a 350e product (Oculus Quest 2).

harr

Got my first customs bill yesterday... a product ordered from Amazon but delivered through addresspal .. €11 on a €40 value .. ..

Ogham

harr wrote: »

Got my first customs bill yesterday... a product ordered from Amazon but delivered through addresspal .. €11 on a €40 value .. ..

You are always going to get customs fees with addresspal - no matter where you get it from.

harr

Ogham wrote: »

You are always going to get customs fees with addresspal - no matter where you get it from.

I was expecting it , I have purchased from other U.K. sites and it got through without custom charge.
Getting stuff delivered through addresspal is always the last resort.

kingbhome

fryup wrote: »

so if i was to buy something online from the UK and the seller uses a courier...would i be better off to request regular post from the seller to avoid the duty & vat?

This is what I'm interested in knowing also. I made a post in the last page about an order I placed then cancelled. I still want to purchase the item because finding it difficult to locate it here Ireland unless it's ridiculously expensive.
I'm wanting to know the best method of getting these items to me without having the additional charges on them. I could be wrong but My understanding of it I've to pay another 92euro, another 6.5% on top of this then a handling fee then another delivery charge of 20euro. That's going to add near another 200euro for me I think

ED E

We cannot help you evade a legitimate tax.

kingbhome

ED E wrote: »

We cannot help you evade a legitimate tax.

Sorry i worded it wrong. I am not looking to avoid tax however I don't want to pay a double VAT, one in the UK and one here in Ireland. I read maybe there's a form the uk seller needs to fill out on there end(I think) to save paying a double hit. I don't mind the extra delivery charge either but paying 200e on top of my order seems very excisive to me.

kingbhome

Below is a reply I got from the seller in the UK..


In all honesty we are being told one thing from our accountant, one thing from Amazon and another from the couriers and reality its none of them. It seems to be working as such when you purchase from Amazon they are stating VAT included but actually when the invoice is produced the cost seems to be that it is not applied and then when its delivered TNT or DHL are applying the VAT your end on delivery. In regards to the additional paper trail i will be honest we just not really interested in doing it. We can send the tray as such above but Tile backer boards we will not send however due to weight and additional charges that are applied Reagrds Martin

Sheep Shagger

Yes!!! 2 day delivery is back (hope I'm not jinxing things).

Ordered some masks on Monday night, arrived at home in Dublin this morning (Wednesday) - Prime member.

Ohmeha

errlloyd wrote: »

How long is the Belgium customs clearing taken?

Mine went in at 5pm Sunday afternoon and no movement. It's a 350e product (Oculus Quest 2).

Im waiting 4 weeks on laptop still in 'Mouscron', amazon giving me f-all info im on the verge of cancelling it and the tracking info is totally unreliable could be in North Korea for all I know

Agent Avenger

Two day delivery back here too! Although I made two separate orders of one item and two items, both orders under €22 and they were sent together however the package only declared one order, the one with two items, but the third item from the other order was in there too.

Caranica

Ordered stuff yesterday, dispatched today. I know I'll have it tomorrow but delivery still saying Sunday. I know they're covering themselves but at least it's better than the weeks it took to get deliveries in January.

One thing I've noticed is that the 8 stops away notification usually starts further away. Usually it meant I'd have my delivery in 30-45 minutes, now it could be 3 hours.