I’m thinking of ordering a rockshox reverb seatpost, its cheapest at Jenson USA, works out about £208 delivered. Has anyone here ordered from this company? If so did you get stung for a tax bill at the doorstep?

As with all US purchases…sometimes. It’s a lottery.

I did on a recent GoPro purchase – about 32% overall, and they ship slow US Postal to save ££££’s

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/buying-bike-stuff-from-america

my orders usually come very quick, never escaped the tax bill

Also think about what happens if/when it goes wrong shipping it back will eat into any savings you may make .

cheers fellas, its probably not enough of a saving all things considered. bikechase.co.uk has it for £230, seems a far less hassle option.
Thanks for your help.

Yes, usually get a tax bill in the post after a week or so with Jenson, also with Cambria Bike Co too.

Try Hibike.de, £182

hibike.de

Got some forks a few years back from Jenson and got hit with VAT and Import Tax

Two different forks and hit both times. Price still good and they weren’t available in the UK anyway

ooh sorry, meant to say, with about £8 postage 🙄

Another thread where the “search” Function hasn’t been used! This gets asked AT LEAST 3 times a week..

Do the search results back this rash statement up Munque-chick?

let him have his winge bigyinn its probably the highlight of his day 😉 to be fair it was pretty clear what the question was without opening the thread, but I guess i could have searched, I hope I won’t lose sleep over this.

Thanks duntstick, that looks like a good deal, hovering over the order button right now!

Action sports de worked out at £208 and no import duty because it’s in Europe.

is the vat still charged at 20%?

From Europe no 🙂

its £189.97 delivered from highbike.de, I haven’t pressed the button yet, don’t know why……

Used them before ‘zey ver very efficient’ 🙂

Jenson can be a bit hard nosed on warranty and also v. likely to get stung for duties IMO

Got my reverb from Rose.de very quick

I ordered one from hibike.de earlier today.
Paid using Paypal and it came in at £192. Now I wait. I have read that they aren’t uber quick, so I won’t hold my breath. On the bright side, if they do take a while it will give me an excuse to shout ‘SCHNELL! SCHNELL!’ down the phone.

I thank you all for your input, very helpful. 🙂