But that's virtually unenforceable on foreign online purchases. Amazon would likely do it right because it has a UK presence, but for a seller without UK presence who would the government chase?
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bikingdad90
Guru
And then buyer pays as per current arrangements?
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many thanks for the update - maybe I will get to use my voucher.
I checked - that 9 speed cassette I got from them last January was £11.50 or so, recently bought the last one from wiggle/chain reaction for over £17. I put it on stock alert. When I got the notice a few days later that they were back in stock they were over £22.
southdownswolf
Senior Member
Cheapest 9 speed cassette Rose have is currently €29, so it might be more to do with supply than just Wiggle pricing.
acuna_read
Active Member
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Not just effecting the foreign based companies it seems.
https://www.brooksengland.com/en_uk/uk-shipping-notice
https://www.brooksengland.com/en_uk/uk-shipping-notice
vickster
Legendary Member
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- London
i agree that there are supply issues at the moment. Hopefully temporary. I think I have enough bits to ride this out.
There were serious supply issues at Rose in early December which is why I couldn't use my voucher in anticipation of coming brexit issues - some common bits were showing several weeks for supplies (still cheaper than wiggle) which would have pushed things into the new year.
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SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
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- London
You mean that the UK government actually dared to implement the result of a democratic vote in the UK that instructed them to get us out of their political project cult and stop handing them £20bn a year of our taxpayer's money?
Seems like a case of dummy spitting to me, and fine, if EU companies think pro-EU posturing is more important than doing business, then that's their problem. We have the whole world to trade with not just their little protectionist bloc. As a share of world trade, the EU are becoming less and less important as time goes by anyway. Eventually they'll just regulate themselves out of economically viable existence while the rest of the world gets on with doing more and more business without them.
e-rider
Banned member
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- South West
After over 3 years of debate you still have this opinion? No doubt you voted for Boris too!
Advisory referendum. Just keeping the facts straight. The government and their rich friends simply got the answer they wanted to avoid all those pesky tax laws that were coming out way. Working class people up and down the land who voted for it will end up paying for it.
Anyway, back to Rose. I have a Rose Carbon road bike from about 2010, excellent bike and I buy lots of spares from Rose also. Hope to see them selling to the UK again very soon.
Anyway, back to Rose. I have a Rose Carbon road bike from about 2010, excellent bike and I buy lots of spares from Rose also. Hope to see them selling to the UK again very soon.
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- London
Bike discount now shipping to the UK but very high minimum order and they can't be arsed acting as an agency of the UK VAT folk so that will have to be sorted by the customer.
Not blaming them I stress.
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/info/information-for-our-uk-customers-327
Not blaming them I stress.
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/info/information-for-our-uk-customers-327
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- London
Last bit of this story refers to increased shipping charges from various shippers, including DHL, to cover not the shipping as such but the extra admin etc for packages to and from the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55530721
If memory serves, Rose's always excellent shipping (in my experience) was with DHL, so even if they start up again it looks like there will be extra costs.
What did Boris say about no non-tariff barriers?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55530721
If memory serves, Rose's always excellent shipping (in my experience) was with DHL, so even if they start up again it looks like there will be extra costs.
What did Boris say about no non-tariff barriers?
Non tariff barriers? I seem to remember something like "... waffle piffle, piffulus waffulus ..." not sure if I caught the Latin part accurately 😠
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
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- London
There aren't any non-tariff barriers. Nobody is setting any quotas or limits on the amount of any given product that can be imported either into the EU or the UK.
If parcel delivery services have chosen to raise their prices, that's a commercial decision on their part, and probably involves a large element of opportunistic price-hiking using the customs process as an excuse to increase profit margins.
