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Re: Busy Bee goodies
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Fri, 12 May 2000 11:08:46 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Tony Priestman writes:
> > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<FuFHyF.25o@lugnet.com>) wrote at
> > 04:03:51
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> > > Me, I like hitting every Target I drive by during christmas
> > > clearance season, it's the thrill of the hunt, to a certain extent, even if • I
> > > could save as much by buying in bulk over the net (which I do, too...)
> >
> > Hmmm. Is it worth a trip to the US, just for the experience of going
> > into a shop, seeing lots of LEGO at 50% off, and buying it.
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> 50%? For shame. Mike Stanley will tell you it's 40% and then 75%.. you know
> you've really hit the jackpot when you find a really old decrepit Target (NOT
> near where Conan lives) and you go in and find lots and lots of starwars on • 75%
> off. Lindsay F Braun did it last year. The blighter.
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> > "Excess baggage?"
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> > "That pile of LEGO cartons over there"
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> Hehe. I've strained the airline baggage capacity, customs officer credulity,
> and my back coming back from Canada once or twice. One time I hit Zellers at
> just the right time and filled a Dell display/monitor box so full I had • trouble
> taping it shut. It was so big it almost didn't check (which would have been a
> disaster, I woiuld have had to re-rent a car, get a hotel for another nite and
> repacked the box into several and shipped it).
I thought (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong) that you could only
bring a certain value of goods back into the UK (less than 100 GBP I think)
before you were supposed to pay tax on entry, even if you paid tax on the
goods abroad?
Andrew
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Busy Bee goodies
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| (...) You have to pay VAT, etc. when it comes in but you claim back the sales tax you paid abroad. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: Busy Bee goodies
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| (...) Could be, but I'm a 'murrican and I can bring in as much as I want into the US, I was able to quote the exact customs classification to the customs guy, which caused him to ask how I knew. His website, I told him. ++Lar (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Busy Bee goodies
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| (...) 50%? For shame. Mike Stanley will tell you it's 40% and then 75%.. you know you've really hit the jackpot when you find a really old decrepit Target (NOT near where Conan lives) and you go in and find lots and lots of starwars on 75% off. (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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