piusthedrcarve Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 Has anyone shipped a snowboard to UK from US? Which carrier do you recommend? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcaple Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 Shipped a number of items to London from the US, boards and gear, mostly used UPS with no problems. Cheers Justin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 I've done it a couple of times: (1) Sean at Donek will mail you stuff direct and take care of all the details for you. (2) Usually I bring things in by hand, carefully remembering to keep the receipts with me so when I walk down the red channel I can declare them to pay the VAT and duty. Ahem. Actually I recently bought some new teeth (implants) in the US and I forgot to declare those... I wonder how that one works. Check the duty, and check how it and the VAT are collected. Typically the courier will collect it on delivery, and will charge you £10 or £20 for the privilege. That said, on several occasions I've bought things in the US, brought them home and used them for a couple of years, then sold them on for the same amount I'd pay here. Living in "treasure island" has it's advantages sometimes. Finally... not too long ago I was trying to buy a lens in the UK. The US price was about half the uk price, but I needed it quickly. My local Pro dealer quoted me a couple of weeks delivery. It was shipped to me from New York in 3 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Posted October 24, 2010 Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 Hi, Flying intercontinental with not to heavy luggage you´re allowed to bring skis and other equpment at no xtra. I never ship anything when I fly to US from Europe and back. I have a couple of times brought as many as 9 boards when there is "piece luggage". You are allowed say 3 pieces and no weight restriction except than one single "bag " is´nt very heavy (around 30 kg a piece). But that´s long gone in the bad times for airlines. So normally it´s 30 kg per person skis or boards inlcuded. If you´re buying equipment in the US and ship it to an EU country and your stuff is sent with proper invoicing they´ll add VAT to the shipping costs as well. There is also 3% tax added if you unlucky on sports goods. /M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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