[TheLongestDay]

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Originally Posted by Lionheart

There's no logic to it at all. The system is broken, and in the age of the internet that's unforgivable. It's literally a fucking scam.



When you've already paid for something to be delivered to you, for them to block it and say you can't have it until you pay makes a mockery of paying postage at all. And for them to then charge you the ludicrous £8 'handling' fee for something you don't want - and haven't even asked them to do, is the biggest scam of all.

There is literally nothing about this system - from the low import threshold (unfair and unrealistic, designed purely to guarantee people fall foul of it) the handling charge (unwanted and should not have a cost) to VAT (often charged on items you can't buy here) to the delaying of packages which *belong* to you and they are ransoming since postage has been paid - which stands up to scrutiny. It's a massive scam. Import duty for the US is something like $200. We're being cheated.



Scumbags (not the delivery people - the system).

Agreed 100%