GSP Import Charges is a Scam!

[worzel*gummidge]

Is there any way that this ridiculous charge could be challenged? Who at some high level could contact Pitney Bowes and get this made fairer? What exactly does this fee entail? I could possibly accept that the GST is included?

[padi*0409]

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@annipurr wrote:

It certainly is a scam... A dirty filthy scam of double dipping, and eBay is complicitly playing along.

Pitney Bowles is a shipping agent not a buying and selling broker. eBay handles that..

You obviously dont know much about taxation and business...

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Kopes probably knows a lot more about eBay's policies than you do, and probably is also very aware of taxation implications as well.

Read this thread on the GSP and gain some insight from it:-

https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Buying/Global-Shipping-Program-put-into-perspective/m-p/2165256#M91...

By the way your response to negative feedback is repulsive.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@annipurr wrote:

For example in the image attached.

Why should I be paying $41.51 import charge usd for this 2nd hand product from a private seller???

I won't buy from sellers who have these charges added anymore...

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you do realise that US$31.90 of that import charge is Aussie GST?

You would pay the $31.90 even if the seller was not using GSP/Pitney Bowes, but it would be collected by eBay. 

So the PB imposed charge is $9.61 and the rest is GST.

These charges are all clear before buying. If you don't like them then don't buy from them.

[annipurr]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

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@annipurr wrote:

For example in the image attached.

Why should I be paying $41.51 import charge usd for this 2nd hand product from a private seller???

I won't buy from sellers who have these charges added anymore...

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you do realise that US$31.90 of that import charge is Aussie GST?

You would pay the $31.90 even if the seller was not using GSP/Pitney Bowes, but it would be collected by eBay. 

So the PB imposed charge is $9.61 and the rest is GST.

These charges are all clear before buying. If you don't like them then don't buy from them.

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Dear o Dear! Better go back to your calculator, or school.

[padi*0409]

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@annipurr wrote:

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Dear o Dear! Better go back to your calculator, or school.

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Don't you love that bit slr ? 

"September" ????

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@padi*0409 wrote:

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@annipurr wrote:

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Dear o Dear! Better go back to your calculator, or school.

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Don't you love that bit slr ? 

"September" ????

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we are on the road again. Only 4 days (after having the fridge replaced)

@anni

Please show me where my calculation is wrong 

[padi*0409]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

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@padi*0409

we are on the road again. Only 4 days (after having the fridge replaced)

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WOOHOO !! Got your trusty capes sorted out ?

                                   

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@annipurr wrote:

Only way out is to ask the seller to post it direct, not through these filthy agents who really are not needed at all...

I dont need their services to get a parcel delivered to me. And American and British eBay sellers should give buyers the choice. 

I suspect long ago before Pitney Bowles began charging these extra costs, sellers have been using them with security in mind. Now the sellers are stuck with them...

But PItney Bowles in Particular have always been a very expensive alternative for shipping. 

For example in the image attached.

Why should I be paying $41.51 import charge usd for this 2nd hand product from a private seller???

I won't buy from sellers who have these charges added anymore...

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an item being 2nd hand or sold by a private seller is irrelevant  . . . . Aussie GST still applies.

All overseas purchases made on eBay have GST applied since 1st July 2018.

Better go back and check your facts!

[annipurr]

an item being 2nd hand or sold by a private seller is irrelevant  . . . . Aussie GST still applies.

All overseas purchases made on eBay have GST applied since 1st July 2018.

Better go back and check your facts!

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I know the facts! 

It doesnt mean its not a gov't cash grab scam... Holding an EDP liable for GST it doesnt collect from a sale is a scam, its DISHONEST. 

[annipurr]

@anni

Please show me where my calculation is wrong 

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GST is actually $46.19 if you use BIN. GST is calculated on value of imported item and transport costs, provided the seller is registered for GST.

eBay is not a seller, but an EDP and that loophole was conveniently blocked in January 2018 and effective July 2018, this fiscal calendar. 

i used to buy alot from OS, not anymore through eBay. There are other ways...

F*&K this BS. Im outa here.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

@anni

you are right and I was wrong.  The GST component of that $41.51 is meant to be $34.76 . . . . . making the Pitney Bowes charge only US$6.74 . . . . . . less than the US$9.61 I posted (not as high as I had thought . . . . . but that is a good rhing, isn't it?)