Just wondering if anyone in the UK has received a Fairphone since the rules have changed. It’s far to complicated to figure out if and how much I’ll be charged. I would much rather buy direct than through a third party but not if I’m going to end up paying a small fortune in customs duty.
This is not an official Fairphone site, so would not have such info. However I doubt such exists. You can buy the Fairphone at the price stated on the website either directlty or from a ‘reseller’
Thanks, I did see that but those were from last February. I wasn’t sure if something had changed. I did notice the UK VAT was included in the price though.
So it should be fine apart from the delay. My daughter has just ordered and was told there was a 12 week wait. (we are UK resident) so maybe quicker from a reseller ? but then you can’t buy with the speckled case
Will update when my daughter receives so 'twould be good if you would too.
Or the Phonecoop though I prefer direct, but arguably you get quicker support, at least initially from a UK company. They can even replace the phone from off the shelf
I think that the UK government are allowing imports without duty for the time being, but this will change on 30th January 2022 I think. Of course, if they pull out of the NI accord, all bets are off as there will be no trade agreement at all. I live in the EU, and already purchases from UK attract import taxes.
There’s a 2.5% Duty for example on the FP4 currently which includes carriage and packaging. Once that is added to the price 20% VAT is added.
Fairphone cover all the above. as they do for the EU in general.
It’s down to individual companies how they cover all issues.
Some companies will have a tax and VAT arrangement with the UK and the UK customer will notice nothing.
For individuals and others total payment is the cost advertised subject to duty, carriage in the UK and VAT on all three (price, duty and carriage) unless the vendor specifically covers those costs.
Since 2019, EU rules already mandated that webshops with a turnover over €10.000/year need to charge the VAT of the target country.
As Fairphone has a larger turnover than that, this means that Fairphone was already charging UK VAT before Brexit; they only had to apply for a UK VAT ID ahead of 1st January 2021, and you’ll likely see that ID on any invoices sent to the UK.
We ordered a FP4 in grey, and a FP4 in speckled green, both on Dec 7 '21, on separate orders. During the ordering process it estimated mid January for the grey one and late February for the speckled green.
The grey one then arrived on 30th December, no extra fees.
No sign of the speckled green one.