Post by mekon on Nov 19, 2024 14:37:23 GMT
I've had tennis elbow for about 5 months now. Not much improvement despite shockwave therapy and doing my exercises. Read about various electromagnetic field treatments, decide to buy something from China as UK prices are mental for such machines.
Anyway, it's one of the Aliexpress sales and I find this TECAR machine dropped from about £120 to 85. Bargain....pay some VAT on checkout but whatever it's still cheap at that price......
The next day the seller messages me to tell me that I need to pay some more money as electronic 'beauty' products are very controlled at customs and I've got to pay them to sort all the import paper work and customs duties out...ok, fine how much is this.....
$480!!!!!! I argue for a bit but he tells me that ever seller will charge me this extra as there no way around it.
Nobody in Europe really makes these things, they are all made in China. Who is being protected here? Certainly not the customer. Where does all the customs money go? into the Labour black hole?
I was going to buy a £700 one as the UK prices seem to be about £3k+ I guess this is why and I actually won't be able to save any money at all if 4x tariffs are the norm.
Anyway, it's one of the Aliexpress sales and I find this TECAR machine dropped from about £120 to 85. Bargain....pay some VAT on checkout but whatever it's still cheap at that price......
The next day the seller messages me to tell me that I need to pay some more money as electronic 'beauty' products are very controlled at customs and I've got to pay them to sort all the import paper work and customs duties out...ok, fine how much is this.....
$480!!!!!! I argue for a bit but he tells me that ever seller will charge me this extra as there no way around it.
Nobody in Europe really makes these things, they are all made in China. Who is being protected here? Certainly not the customer. Where does all the customs money go? into the Labour black hole?
I was going to buy a £700 one as the UK prices seem to be about £3k+ I guess this is why and I actually won't be able to save any money at all if 4x tariffs are the norm.
