Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

Selaws said:
Question for my internationals.

I have just had an email to say that I owe £50 in customs fees before they release the parcel to me. I suspect its VMP (as SADDLE CREEK LOGISTICS SVCS is the name given) and I suspect its the Tribe Anthology box set that I ordered.

I've never had to pay customs in my 6-years of membership, so my question is whether this is something that should have been picked up at VMP's end or if I do indeed have to pay it?
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Not sure about the UK but in Canada we get hit with duties on the Anthologies. I think it is the way they ship them now. Your mileage may vary

Edit: meant to add that is seems like regular ROTM shipments don't get hit with duties here, but this has stopped my from even considering signing up for a year. I think 8 'free' records would be tempting customs gods
 
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Selaws said:
Question for my internationals.

I have just had an email to say that I owe £50 in customs fees before they release the parcel to me. I suspect its VMP (as SADDLE CREEK LOGISTICS SVCS is the name given) and I suspect its the Tribe Anthology box set that I ordered.

I've never had to pay customs in my 6-years of membership, so my question is whether this is something that should have been picked up at VMP's end or if I do indeed have to pay it?
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Joe Mac said:
Did your invoice from VMP include UK VAT itemised and does it have their UK registration number for paying VAT? If it does then you should be able to use that as proof for customs of UK VAT paid. If it doesn’t you owe the fees.

There’s been a bit of a thing with VMP in Europe where VAT and customs was due but it wasn’t always being picked up by postal providers, even though it was due. They were forced by law to register for EU VAT to sell into the EU last year and our prices have gone up hugely because of the extra VAT charge being taken at source which previously we were getting away with because of lax postal services. By law we should have paid it on every package that ever came in.
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In the beginning vmp used to underdeclare value so mostly one was not hit with customs and when vmp was rather kind and refunded it.
In the last couple of years the eu waved the value threshold so VAT is always due and collected most of the time. For the first anthologies ( i never ordered one, but as far as i remember) the additional shipping fee for intl also included an up-front payment of vat and customs, but they seem to have changed that
 
Jan said:
In the beginning vmp used to underdeclare value so mostly one was not hit with customs and when vmp was rather kind and refunded it.
In the last couple of years the eu waved the value threshold so VAT is always due and collected most of the time. For the first anthologies ( i never ordered one, but as far as i remember) the additional shipping fee for intl also included an up-front payment of vat and customs, but they seem to have changed that
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Yeah and after brexit the uk did that too, reverting from £20 to £0.

We actually had a two year period during Covid, because this all happened in and around then where an post, maybe because of volume, maybe Covid staffing issues, maybe both, just didn’t bother checking any overseas parcels. That’s stopped the last 18 months and everything is charged now.

Royal Mail is a streaming hot mess of what type of company not to privatise, how not to privatise it and why the public sector is always going to be much better than the private for providing public services. I think it’s hit and miss whether they bother and more often than not it miss.
 
Does anyone have the VMP exclusive of this? I went for six months to try the new rock track and grab a couple bonus records I've been wanting (Dylan and the two Clem Snide). But I see this in swaps and have enjoyed streaming it, but curious about the pressing quality.
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jamieanderson1968 said:
Seems like the Beastie Boys has been a popular grab for those re-signing up after a while away from VMP.
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So I ended up working the system a bit. I've had classics/country as my main track with the other as my add on for a while now. Wanted to convert my add on track as another subscription and get the bonus records. Was told I couldn't do that, so I just signed up with another email. Gotta love arbitrary rules...

So I have all the classics and country track releases already and a good bit from essentials. Ended up with a good mix on freebies though....

Run dmc
Biggie
PE
Badu
Usher
Strokes
Bright eyes
Turnpike Troubadours
 
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