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Guessing 90% won't even realise they can do that. We're in trouble here because they have real monopoly power.

Depends on the items and who is fulfilling the orders. It supplied or fulfilled by Amazon all charges are visible at checkout. I'm never hit with extra charges.

“Evil” Amazon deduct UK VAT 20% and add Irish VAT 23%. That’s it. No more charges aside from shipping (may be free if you have Prime or order is over a certain amount). The packages don’t get held up in customs & you don’t pay anything else. This only applies to items sold by Amazon or fulfilled by Amazon.

The majority of UK sellers don’t do this so if you order from them you can end up

1) Paying UK VAT & Irish VAT

2) Paying an Admin fee to An Post or whoever is delivering.

3) Not getting your package due to “failed electronic customs clearance”

Has anyone worked out a way of buying tools with a sharp edge on them from Amazon. I wanted a cheap set of carving chisels but I get the stupid prove you are over 18 restriction and UK address only when I try to buy them.

I can understand this for a knife but carving tools is taking it to a bit of an extreme.

Its more complicated than I thought. These https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faithfull-FAIWCSET12-Carving-Chisels-Presentation/dp/B000C750L0/ they had been unavailable for ages then today for a gift I had a UK address set for delivery and they became available so tried to buy and hit the age issue now I've changed back to Irish address they aren't available again. Thats the same for most knives, just not available to Ireland.

How do I know it's amazon selling it or not. See screenshot. Is it worth my while buying it and getting it sent to here in the South. I also have an address up north and will be using this tool up there aswell.

I'm presuming I'm not the first person to ask this, but what's the story with searching for items on Amazon, seeing the item you want at the price you want, and then when you go to 'See All Buying Options' you see that there is no actual 'buying option' to purchase the item at the price initially listed?

Yeh, although only last night something similar to what you're describing happened me where I looked and found an item on Amazon UK and when I went to buying options the item in all its sizes was 'currently unavailable', so then I went to Amazon DE and bought it there instead.

Some items seem to have coincided with Brexit like food items (which I get given the regulation around such items) but others items I purchased before like camera batteries and power banks also disappeared around the same time but seem unlikely to be Brexit related (as Amazon.de won’t ship either).

Much of this may be down to heightened concerns about shipping lithium batteries but Amazon don’t seem interested in making any effort to work around these (presumably putting processes in place to ensure they don’t go by air). I can get camera batteries from an independent retailer in the Netherlands so it can be done if the will is there so seems to be down to indifference.

Some of these items could presumably be stocked in the Irish warehouse either but again they don’t seem to care enough to facilitate. Also not sure how much they are using the Irish warehouse, my own orders rarely seem to come from there.

Anybody having recent difficulty with packages from Amazon US that have cleared customs but stuck in some sort of infinite loop with UPS as a Warehouse Scan every night?

Haven't ordered anything particularly spicy. Moondrop and Truthear IEMs.

Looking to get a product on amazon, one that doesnt ship here as it has a lithium ion battery. Would always have got it sent to parcel motel up until brexit.

Considering using address pal, but will I be charged big fees on a £300 item? I know that amazon cover all the fees if you get something shipped here but I presume and item shipped to address pal will mean big customs fees when it lands?

Hey folks. Anyone else noticing that Amazon are increasingly not delivering to Ireland? I keep getting the "cannot deliver to your address" message, often on Amazon's own items. Happened with the Ring camera and various other bits over the last week.

I tried to buy a Roomba i7 from Amazon.de Warehouse. It will ship to Ireland but the 30% discount is not applied. Has anyone found a workaround for this?

Yes, unfortunately I've noticed that quite a lot myself recently if I remember correctly it was on items that contain batteries.

Perhap someone can confirm if Amazon in the UK has stopped shipping items with batteries abroad?