ebay, Amazon - China products
This week an order for £4.99 for a product shipped from China to UK - was billed by ebay as £5.99. The extra £1 was itemised on the ebay invoice as "vat @ 20%" - apparently added automatically by ebay not the supplier. This suggests a recent change in the import regulations?
Some suppliers in China are apparently UK vat registered - will ebay still add this charge to effectively double the vat?
I wonder if the recent increase in the ebay listed price of some online China supplied products by about 20% has a similar origin? Even on Amazon a MarketPlace product - that was shipped from a UK Amazon warehouse before Xmas - is now listed at over £20. A 20% higher price.
The latter may be down to the soaring cost of container transport from the Far East to the UK.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
