Stickman PD belts.

[billybags]

My husband loves the stickman PD belt, he has had a couple for over a year so I have sent for 2 more. No problem with the belts, they arrived along with a request for customs charge and handling fee of 22 usd or £15 UK. I am spitting. I live in the UK and the bas****s are charging import duty, and handling fee. I can not believe this. So all in all I have paid in American dollars 72 . equivalent to £47 for two belts. So be careful if you order these and live in the UK or other international countries,the  government is out to get you. Sorry about moaning, I am fu**** spitting.

[Riki]

I get the same thing ordering things from the US, and I'm in Canada. They just have to kick it across a border.  I doubt that it's Stickman themselves that's charging you.  It's most likely the company that they used to ship.  FedEx did it to me with a sweater with a show logo on it that I bought from NBC.  They sent me a bill about a week after it was delivered.  I forget how much it was, but it was an import and handling fee.

btw, Stickman was originally a Canadian company.  I'm not sure where they are based now.

[MaryD]

It sounds like a government (customs) charge.  It might be worth getting someone in the US to buy them for you and to send them as a gift.  Then you could reimburse them for the belts and postage.  Would that get around the charges? The UK seems to getting very imaginative with their new taxes. 

[billybags]

Went to the Royal Mail to pick up and        PAY          this morning and the guy said that any imported goods worth more than £16 or 29 USD was elegable for the charge. So if I had ordered one at a time they probably would have got through. Still spitting.