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If you’re doing a warranty/repair etc then you won’t owe any vat/duty on the item (you might on services/parts) But customs won’t know unless it’s declared. When you send it overseas to be serviced/repaired then you need to stick a customs declaration on it - (call it a warranty repair etc) and the same applies when they post it back Of course if we buy from UK dealers then you would then handle your warranty with the UK dealer

Sales valued up to £135: Import VAT is due, and should be handled by the overseas seller registering with HMRC. In which case you just pay the VAT and no extra fees Sales over £135 will be handled as normal, you just pay their export price Then on arrival in the UK you get a bill for import VAT, import duty and handling fees We can try contacting UK retailers about items that we want but aren’t listed. Most often they can then get them via their suppliers If we never do that then we are cutting them out of the loop and having the ‘unknown’ charges plus take the personal risk of an item crossing the border A UK retailer can make a trade import, saving on postage of individual packages etc

The 30 December Sweden example should have been handled as a pre Brexit sale unless it was processed post Brexit Its been treated as post Brexit, so the £71.74 gets 20% import VAT (£14.348) plus the £11 handling fees and have been under charged by 1p due to bad rounding. The recipient has a case for reclaiming invalid costs (unless it wasn’t exactly as they have described. (Odd for them to have added quotes on supposed free postage) If it had been a post Brexit sale then ideally the seller would register with HMRC, handle UK VAT and show all the details on the customs declaration The Italian trainers at €490 for two pairs, and £131 in charges: They are sad that nobody told them there was the possibility of import costs, did they tell the Italian retailer that they planned to try both sizes and send one pair back for a refund? €490 is £433.05 on my converter So import VAT 20% is £86.61 Take that off the £131 they were charged £44.39 as duty and fees 16% duty quoted would be £69 Something is wrong in the article The ‘consumer rights’ element about extra charges is a red herring, they wouldn’t have applied when within the EU pre Brexit and ‘consumer rights’ don’t put the onus on a foreign seller to warn an importer about their country’s requirements. The new arrangement that foreign sellers are to register for UK VAT to handle sales up to £135 makes it equivalent to an internal UK sale (and can actually make it cheaper then a pre Brexit sale as other EU countries often had higher VAT rates then the UK

Duty is a minor percentage, probably 2% 20% VAT would be due on both methods On £260 you could save £5.20 at 2% duty by getting separate packages The level of handling fees could vary, usually a minimum of £8 So by getting separate packages you might save £13.20, but you would pay double in postage With the single package there is always the possibility that it doesn’t get picked up on entry and you get away with no charges

The first link has a simpler explanation of pre change VAT, duty etc, and also directs to the second has the post change details, but has more spin offs to follow depending on circumstances For the retailer if it’s over £135 then the payments are not their concern. If up to £135 then they should register and handle payments to HMRC. Exactly how they do that can depend on the circumstances of the nature of the goods and their registration with HMRC

They are set by government, it’s not whether or not HMRC want to be bothered with doing it https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-and-overseas-goods-sold-directly-to-customers-in-the-uk (Subject to specifics of whether it’s direct sale to a customer, commercial sales to a VAT registered business etc ....) Up to £135 sales = VAT to be charged at point of sale, no duty due Over £135 sales = Charges raised at the border. VAT applies, duty may apply depending on the item category and point of origin of the product / component parts

Up to £135 the overseas seller is to register for UK VAT, charge for it at point of sale and pay it to HMRC Over £135 they do nothing extra, on arrival at customs you owe import VAT, import duty depending on item category and extra handling fees. The over £135 element is as per non EU sales in the past. The under £135 requirement for overseas sellers to handle VAT coincides with Brexit but was coming anyway

I watched it on the original showing. The PM picks their favourite spin doctor and appoints them as advisor, calls them a civil servant and takes their influence. Ministers attempt to make their mark and are advised / influenced by their departments Permanent Secretary. Their whims are going to get nowhere during their appointment (especially when a PM is shuffling ministers out regularly) If it was all down to Whitehall telling the PM what they can do with Brexit then there have been a few fast changes along the way with Boris at the helm. Whitehall is a long way from the civil servants who will implement the outcome of Brexit of course, Boris and friends need to tell them what it is - whether that’s from the politicians or rubber stamping what their SCS tell them they’re allowed

.... and of course after the politicians make their minds up about what the civil servants are to do

http://episodenothing.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-of-our-dragons-is-missing-how.html?m=1 A left over prop from a Disney film, used by a SciFi film, which ends up bought up by Disney

PayPal updated their terms to permit 'gun related' payments again where the items are legal within the country concerned.

I note that Super5ives aren’t listed https://shop.super5ives.com (Bearing in mind that I know Chris the owner) I can still recommend them, I’ve known Chris for more than a decade when he brought the Soton University society to our first event, and have watched him move on to an event organizer, and open the retail business. He’s a keen player in both airsoft and paintball and knows the ropes to advise on anyone’s questions

Don’t let anyone try and tell you the ‘accurate’ right way to wear it The ‘right’ way is on the trouser leg, but those dirty cut throats didn’t follow dress regulations What you will need is a toggle rope. Not nearly rolled up, but probably around your waist. Ready made toggle ropes come at a heafty price, but can be made. This isn’t the right version, but with a good sized piece of real rope and a decent broom handle etc you can compare the above and below videos and could make a convincing example .... and lets not miss an opportunity to mention my unbeaten tradition at our branch dinner nights to be last man standing in the bar every time - the first being one of the last two in the bar in the early hours with a modern green bereted officer until he decided it was bedtime. My only problem was the early morning start that followed to head out for a site visit, but a final fresh air walk and a couple of pints of water enabled me to wake up and be ready before the calls I had booked came through making sure I could roll out of bed

It’s up to you to act as you feel comfortable, but pre VCRA possession remains valid The VCRA covers the sale, import, manufacture or modification of IFs and RIFs The UKARA isn’t a licence or certificate, so isn’t required for a pre VCRA RIF until you decide to sell However there is the other legislation that covers a valid reason for possessing in public, get stopped with a IF or RIF and you may need to explain why you are carrying it. If transporting to or from an airsoft venue then that’s your good reason for carrying it (properly packed of course)

Pretty much as everyone has already covered: You are the person responsible for the sale, you don’t want a criminal record and you don’t want the fine that comes from a VCRA offence. But - the buyers ‘defence’ is their intent to use the RIF for one of the approved activities in legislation (museum, theatrical etc) or the additional skirmisher defence under Statutory instrument: They intend to play airsoft skirmishing at an insured site. UKARA is a way of reasonably proving intent due to past activity. You don’t need to insist on UKARA but are well entitled to stick to that as your personal policy. You can accept other matters such as ‘recent’ photos of them skirmishing, proof of age etc The odds of you having to prove it in court are low, but you also don’t want to be the test case. If you feel the buyer can present something that could be reasonably accepted as intent to skirmish (on an insured site) then you have your reasonable defence in court If you’re not happy then don’t sell

Forward your PayPal details plus the matching email account and I’ll ‘look after’ it for you

Noobs Circa 1983/84 when the guns fired shaped plastic pellets similar to airgun pellets

Enola Gaye https://store.enolagaye.com/?utm_source=egcom&utm_campaign=header (Heads up - I have a sponsorship relationship with Enola Gaye, so I could be biased) ‘Bulk’ means different things to different people. Call them to discuss if you think your bulk Is big enough

Too geeky - its also a name and place name, particularly with Scottish and Scandinavian backgrounds.

Simple possibly - but as Longshot pointed out 6 years ago, the UKARA system was designed to protect retailers from prosecution under the VCRA (The UKARA are the UKs Airsoft Retailers Association) It was the UKARA who acted when the act was just a bill and managed to have the skirmisher defence added. The UKARA player scheme is the system that they came up with. In effect a player establishes skirmisher status at one UKARA site. The UKARA and sites have not felt the need to enhance the scheme for playing at different sites. Players are welcome to do so and can play wherever they like or join as many sites as they wish. Sites typically maintain a player as a member and on the register if they remain a site member and continue to play into the next year etc Its not compulsory under the VCRA to use the UKARA, but that’s the most commonly recognised scheme. Sites could collaborate, but for faith in a system then there would be a need to verify the card and share the information. Any data collected needs to be controlled and have transparency, any sharing then has to be declared and controlled. Without control and validation it becomes an untrusted process and a retailer selling a RIF based on untrusted documentation is then facing a considerable fine under the VCRA

You therefore don’t have a defence under the VCRA as you are purchasing without the intent to skirmish On an administrative basis, retailers would believe you do have an intent to skirmish if you provide your UKARA details Alternatively ..... what @SgtTalbert said

I sometimes judge people from videos ..... but it’s not the player in front of the camera that I judge .....

If it ‘adversely’ affects your reputation, then you could

It would not be copyright, as you can’t copyright your face. However you don’t actually need to be a copyright holder to instigate a copyright breach !!! How they generate their income may vary, if YouTube monetisation then a breach claim will put a hold on it, if they are ‘giving a message from our sponsor’ then they have had that paid .... but want the next videos money to come, if they are promoting their website / products then it’s the potential sales or clicks that follow There is a whole subject of discussion though. My face has appeared on TV, and I did not sign an explicit release. On the day of filming our main ‘face’ did need to sign all the legal papers granting permissions - he was all over the programme, I was in a scene, he was a subject expert, named & spoke, I was a random character, uncredited and silent. He gave legally documented consent, I gave implied consent. I’ve been the subject of ‘modelling’ shoots with my sponsor - and not signed papers - but consent was there and our faces weren't shown. Both sponsor and team have copies of the pictures - used both by them and also us in event promos etc I could be called the face of a particular merchandise, due to drinking from my new mug straight away. (It may have been my suggestion that the photo be used so I can’t claim back on that!) An advertising agency will want to see model releases to protect themselves, but the lack of paperwork doesn’t mean the consent didn’t exist