"I'm so fed up with this stupid country, our Z Team government of openly corrupt incompetents and any mention of the word "sovereignity". I've never seen a country inflict more harm on itself with so little common sense" -------------------------------- Well, this really does look like sh!t news, in a year of sh!t news. What a crapper way to end the year. Yes, those oblivious public school boy millionaires ru(i)nning the country will be able to set up their own tax free hubs to avoid such rubbish, while their grinning, gloating mugs will be on TV telling us we're all in this together.
Guy Fawkes..."the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".
I'd be interested to know what the likes of SAE and HDtracks think of this. Will they simply stop U.K. sales, or will they bother to do the necessary work to register for U.K. VAT?
As has been stated, it has nothing to do with Brexit. These are new EU rules, the difference is that the EU decided to delay the change until later in the year & the UK decided to keep to the original date, January 1st. It's going to be more expensive to import, as the £15 limit (under that amount no customs has to be paid) is scrapped, & it's extra paperwork for the seller. I'm sure it'll all work itself out. For the one or two soundtrack releases I buy every year now, it's not worth worrying about.
I hardly think that companies like SAE will be willing to lose all their European sales for the sake of a bit of paperwork, but it's up to them.
Yes, I do wonder if the likes of Intrada, Quartet, LLL, Moviemusic, SAE have plans for this or if they are just going to not ship to the UK from 1 Jan and turn off all of Europe from 1 July. I suppose it depends how many orders they get from UK/Europe as to whether it's worth their while or whether they are happy to bin the European market completely. I suppose it does depend on what costs are actually involved in collecting/processing. One of the main costs could also be updating their website checkouts.
If it does become harder to buy from these places you're left with ebay scalpers or obtaining via other methods - which is just going to hurt the labels further.
The UK company Indicator (produces & sells Blu-rays) posted this on Blu-ray.com:
Right now, a business would be foolish to announce their plans when nobody has any concrete idea what's going to happen after January 1st (as absurd as that sentence sounds when typing it on December 17th), especially as they don't set shipping charges and have no idea what they'll be.
They're talking about exporting stuff, & even this late in the day, they don't know what's going on. Expect confusion before things sort themselves out.
...I've already paid extra, £21 instead of £14-£15 for the new Warner Blu-ray of The Curse Of Frankenstein from Wow-HD.
