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re-use its IDs? There is no mention of ID re-use
or duration of ID validity on the website.
- posted 15 years ago
Does
Love my new Class 108 !
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- posted 15 years ago
When I bought souvenirs (by credit card) at the Guinness brewery in
Dublin last year, I was given a discount in lieu of the Irish VAT, and a
form to be completed and handed in when I left the EU (Manchester, as it
happened). If the form was not returned within a certain time, the VAT
would be charged back to my credit card.
For the UK, see the official site at
For the UK, see the official site at
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To download as a PDF document:
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Or just Google on: UK VAT refund
- posted 15 years ago
Tinyurl doesn't re-use IDs. They are generated by some sort of
algorithm based on the URL, so when someone clicks on a tinyurl link, it
is sort of reverse-decoded to get back to the original URL.
This is easy to prove. Get a URL, then make a tinyurl from it. Later on, using the same URL you will get the same tinyurl.
So, they don't have a life-span. Even if they did, most discussions with links to tinyurls will have long since died out!
This is easy to prove. Get a URL, then make a tinyurl from it. Later on, using the same URL you will get the same tinyurl.
So, they don't have a life-span. Even if they did, most discussions with links to tinyurls will have long since died out!
- posted 15 years ago
In message , Bruce
writes
Oh yes there is! but it's in different words. It's on their homepage:
By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
I read "never expires" as meaning that the ID is never reused and lasts for a very long time, i.e. until TinyURL disappears, and at least as long as Jerry's six months.
There used to be another system, called
By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
I read "never expires" as meaning that the ID is never reused and lasts for a very long time, i.e. until TinyURL disappears, and at least as long as Jerry's six months.
There used to be another system, called
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but that has been taken over by TinyURL. I don't know what has happened
to MakeAShorterLink's ID's but I'd guess that they are still around as
well.
- posted 15 years ago
"MartinS" wrote
Just one additional comment. The way VAT is calculated on 'second hand items' is such that HM Customs & Excise will not allow it to be discounted on export sales of such items. In other words overseas customers have to pay the same price for 'used' items as UK residents.
John.
Just one additional comment. The way VAT is calculated on 'second hand items' is such that HM Customs & Excise will not allow it to be discounted on export sales of such items. In other words overseas customers have to pay the same price for 'used' items as UK residents.
John.
- posted 15 years ago
Ok,
When you click on the "buy now" button from this particular vendor and select the country, Australia in this instance, you get:
Description of item and a unit price of £67.00
"Sub Total of £67.00 "
Then at the bottom of the order it says "Goods Total (tax free): £57.02" "Carriage charge will be added according to weight/size/value of the package"
Paid by Credit Card from Australian Bank.
Their terms and conditions clearly state "VAT will not be charged on orders sent outside the European Union". So I should have checked this before I started this thread.
Cheers Mal Oz
When you click on the "buy now" button from this particular vendor and select the country, Australia in this instance, you get:
Description of item and a unit price of £67.00
"Sub Total of £67.00 "
Then at the bottom of the order it says "Goods Total (tax free): £57.02" "Carriage charge will be added according to weight/size/value of the package"
Paid by Credit Card from Australian Bank.
Their terms and conditions clearly state "VAT will not be charged on orders sent outside the European Union". So I should have checked this before I started this thread.
Cheers Mal Oz
- posted 15 years ago
You must be drinking in the wrong pub. I can get four pints in my local on
Sydney's Lower North Shore (yes, pints not schooners) and some small change
from $25.
As a general rule for UK mail order I find that by the time the VAT has been deducted and the postage added on, the total cost is roughly the number you first thought of.
As a general rule for UK mail order I find that by the time the VAT has been deducted and the postage added on, the total cost is roughly the number you first thought of.
- posted 15 years ago
Vendor replied, apologised and processed the refund of the VAT.
Case closed.
:-))
Case closed.
:-))
- posted 15 years ago
Just goes to show that not all traders who 'make mistakes' are sharks,
genuine mistakes can and do happen - perhaps some on this group could
remember that before being quick to 'name and shame'...
- posted 15 years ago
Draconus said the following on 31/01/2007 11:39:
Excellent!
- posted 15 years ago
:Jerry: said the following on 31/01/2007 11:46:
So who was the named and shamed supplier then? I must have missed a post - perhaps the sender was in my killfile.
So who was the named and shamed supplier then? I must have missed a post - perhaps the sender was in my killfile.
- posted 15 years ago
exactly the reason why I was not going to identify the vendor - even though
some of you may have 'sussed' out who they were.
Evenin' all.
Evenin' all.
- posted 15 years ago
Although no one actually names a company two or three people found the
need to give pointers to a company.
- posted 15 years ago
Stop being such an arse and read the first paragraph on http://
tinyurl.com/
MBQ
MBQ
- posted 15 years ago
That's because there is no VAT to be deducted. The clue is in "not VAT
registered" and the fact you were not being charged it in the first
place.
MBQ
MBQ
- posted 15 years ago
There is no VAT to deduct if they are not registered. If they're not
registered and they offer free overseas postage instead then you are
getting a very good deal and you should take it up before they go out
of business. Either that or they were ripping you off to start with.
MBQ
MBQ
- posted 15 years ago
snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com said the following on 31/01/2007 13:50:
LOL! I wonder if the point will get across :-)
LOL! I wonder if the point will get across :-)
- posted 15 years ago
snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com said the following on 31/01/2007 13:55:
I suspect that confusion arises because some of the smaller non-VAT-registered suppliers will sell stuff at the same overall price as VAT registered suppliers. So no, they're not charging VAT, but their VAT-free price is higher, if that makes any sense.
There's no problem with that at all - it just means that non-EU buyers may choose someone else who can deduct the VAT (but might also add quite a hefty postage charge!) You picks and you chooses...
I suspect that confusion arises because some of the smaller non-VAT-registered suppliers will sell stuff at the same overall price as VAT registered suppliers. So no, they're not charging VAT, but their VAT-free price is higher, if that makes any sense.
There's no problem with that at all - it just means that non-EU buyers may choose someone else who can deduct the VAT (but might also add quite a hefty postage charge!) You picks and you chooses...
- posted 15 years ago
What point is that, other than some people can't copy and paste a line
wrapped URL?
- posted 15 years ago
I said "I wonder if the point will get across"
:Jerry: then said the following on 31/01/2007 14:42: It didn't...
:Jerry: then said the following on 31/01/2007 14:42: It didn't...
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