Help Please!!! VGA Touch Screens

blicky_1 · 10-13-2003, 08:10 PM

Hi All,

I have seen all the threads with regard to the current unavailable status of touch screens in the US. I live in the UK and can't find one anywhere. DSCustoms and DWW's sites say they should have been delivered last week but no word as yet.

Is there just a general shortage?? as there seems to be lots of people wanting these screens.

I have built my carputer and am desperate for a 7" VGA touch screen (normal screen or possibly in dash model) so that i can install it all!!

Does anyone know where i can get one i have cash waiting but i'm not too happy about parting with it on e-bay to people in Hong Kong!, would prefer to go with someone that people from this forum had used before.

Also if buying from the US are there any issues with customs in the UK??

Regards
Blicky_1

GingerPrince · 10-14-2003, 04:00 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by blicky_1

Also if buying from the US are there any issues with customs in the UK??

Regards
Blicky_1

There's no issue. The item comes in, you pay the duty that's due on it.

Skraggy_uk · 10-14-2003, 11:01 AM

Or not, if you get lucky.

I believe Computer components are duty free comig into the UK, but you will still be liable for VAT if the package is checked.

GingerPrince · 10-14-2003, 12:12 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Skraggy_uk

Or not, if you get lucky.

I believe Computer components are duty free comig into the UK, but you will still be liable for VAT if the package is checked.

Guess I'm not lucky then. I've never not been charged duty/vat on overseas orders

Skraggy_uk · 10-14-2003, 03:59 PM

ink I've only been charged once, and that was VAT on an Enermax PSU from Canada.

Have ordered direct from Korea, from US, from all over, and been fine. USPS is the easiest to get through, Couriers are a bit tougher, and generally Post Office stuff isn't that much slower either.

Confused · 10-15-2003, 02:30 AM

I got charged £95 VAT on £550 worth of 2x Xenarc 700TS displays.

I have got lucky with a few things being sent from the US as Gift via USPS, but anything that comes via carrier or not marked as "Gift" on USPS green custom's form I've got charged on.

Garry

Skraggy_uk · 10-15-2003, 04:08 AM

I did find a european customs tarrifs link posted on here. Monitors have a rate of duty as well as VAT, TV's have a different one, but computer monitor parts don't, while TV parts do.

Computer parts don't though.

mian34 · 10-15-2003, 05:57 AM

in some countries if you can get the sender to mark it as a warranty repair/replacement then you don't get taxed when it comes into your country.

gerard · 10-16-2003, 02:47 AM

wrong, they will tax it at the value of the thing you are importing, they dont care or it is replaced under warranty or not.
atleast here in the netherlands it is.

mian34 · 10-16-2003, 03:10 AM

well thankfully my country does not work like that, if your country re-taxes you on a warranty replacement which you have already paid tax on the original import (as far as you're telling them anyway) you're paying twice as much tax.

Skraggy_uk · 10-16-2003, 04:28 AM

In the UK that wouldn't bother them either. They like you to pay twice as much tax, they positively encourage it.

they would even relish you paying the tax on the import duty twice too, and then charge you VAT on top of everything else (even the shipping value).