How to send watches from the UK after Brexit

[Minome]

Hi guys,

Need some help please.
Can anyone explain the proper procedure (and safe for both the seller and buyer) to send watches from the UK to EU/WW after Brexit?
Is there any form to fill out? Suggestions about descriptions and price?


Maybe someone else asked this (i couldnt find it).

Thank you in advance

 

[p0pperini]

Use the Royal Mail online service, and (if possible) select the opiton to get the package picked up and the postie to bring the labels (so you don’t even have to print them). That makes the process ultra simple.

Even if you don’t/can’t do it online, I would always use Royal Mail. It’s the only service I’ve used for domestic and international rep/gen shipping over the last 4-5 years, and I’ve had zero issues.

You’ll need to fill in a customs declaration to stick on the package with the address label (if you do it online for collection, the postie will bring the pre-printed one too). Describe it as “watch parts” or “watch for parts/repair” and a lowish value £25/30.

 

[t.m.m]

Here is an example customs declaration UK-EU from an TD... Gift it's a gift/private...

 

[Minome]

Cheers guys. That helps a lot!
Will give it a go.

 

[CF_Stan]

Watch repair is a good description. You can even put a note inside stating the watch is not keeping time well etc, please fix - just in case they open the package.

I haven't sent any watches but I've received a few from Europe and the first one I got the seller did this. So if I deal with a seller who doesn't have experience of sending outside of Europe I usually advise them to do this. So far so good.

 

[Minome]

Huuu thats a good advice aswell. Ty mate

 

[Dave2302]

I am also uber careful when making payments too ..................

I have bought quite a lot recently, on one occasion the bank stopped the payment reported to me scam, I knew it wasn't and insisted they allow the transaction, the bank employee then asked what I was buying ............

I resisted the temptation to tell her it was my fuckin' money and i'll buy what the hell I like with it, and so, knowing how these officious arse holes work, it just rolled off my tongue , "Well since you ask it is scale model radio controlled car kit for my grandsons Birthday present"

Another one that I personally find offensive is when using Pay-Pal F&F, I get asked what the reason for payment is, I now put "settlement of A/c" !!.

I'm putting this here for the benefit of noobies, because if you aren't careful, nor used to buying / selling rep items, it is easy for someone less seasoned in the art of blaggery to slip up and say something un-mentionable like Rol Watch rep etc etc which could very well land everyone concerned in a pile of steaming Shit

 

[t.m.m]

the bank stopped the payment reported to me scam

It happened to me twice that the bank classified a reported payment as questionable. The recipient had to confirm the payment each time and once required additional information.

It's probably a thing of the current dystopian times that banks no longer know who they actually serve.

I was a project manager for banks 20 years ago, at a time when banks were switching to central data centers; before that, they all had their own servers. I now believe that this is the reason for our problems, because algorithms can filter out special payments. A switch to crypto is certainly advisable here.

 

[p0pperini]

A switch to crypto is certainly advisable here.

God no.

The day everyone switches to paying for M2M deals in crypto is the day I bow out of the rep game.

 

[Dave2302]

God no.

The day everyone switches to paying for M2M deals in crypto is the day I bow out of the rep game.

Me too, in UK at least purchasing without fear of getting a new arse ripped is simple to control it all yourself ...........

Just open a basic Bank Account and leave £5.00 in it, then each time ya purchase can transfer the funds from yer millions in Current A/c and either pay via Visa card for the basic a/c, or Bank Transfer from the app, or even use it by registering it on yer PayPal, sod all that crypto / wise etc etc etc

Worst case scenario is yer fiver gets nicked if something dodgy goes on wiv the sellers payment handlers etc

 

[p0pperini]

...or just carry on doing PP F&F (with members you trust).

I know it goes against the strong advice of RWI, but again I've been doing it for years here without a single problem to date.

 

[Dave2302]

or just carry on doing PP F&F (with members you trust).

Oh, yes always do with M2M and UK TD.

Since I spread my "buying wings" a bit I've started purchasing certain less mainstream pieces that weren't available from RWI TD's or M2M.

So far just 2 pieces, one from DHG, and the other from a dealer who I used before I joined RWI last year ..........

So, since I'm wearing my big boy pants lol, I know the risks, don't have an issue risking a few hunnerid squids if I've seen pieces that others don't want to supply and I want to buy, that's why I set up my own funding bank account to pay for them, it's just way easier to buy this way for me

 

[suffolkdiver]

On Paypal F&F i put car parts

 

[derjenigewelcher]

I will never understand why those informations are published in a public forum where everey customs agent and goverment and gen factory can look in. If YOU know how to declarate, THEY now what to check.

Sorry but thats dumb in my opinion.

 

[p0pperini]

I will never understand why those informations are published in a public forum where everey customs agent and goverment and gen factory can look in.

This presupposes that a) any customs agent is in the slightest bit interested in doing any homework (I have a sneaking suspicion that the percentage of customs employees with that sort of diligence is vanishingly low) and b) that there's any significant percentage chance that the one customs agent who can be bothered to do some homework reading this post is also the one who happens to decide to check the declaration on your rep package.

 

[derjenigewelcher]

This presupposes that a) any customs agent is in the slightest bit interested in doing any homework (I have a sneaking suspicion that the percentage of customs employees with that sort of diligence is vanishingly low) and b) that there's any significant percentage chance that the one customs agent who can be bothered to do some homework reading this post is also the one who happens to decide to check the declaration on your rep package.

Its not bout the agents, the follow the instructions. Its about them who make the instructions.

 

[p0pperini]

Its not bout the agents, the follow the instructions. Its about them who make the instructions.

Fair enough, but I'm still unconvinced that anything we discuss here is very likely to filter out in a way that would impact us. I mean, have you ever tried Google searching for a thread on a specific subject discussed on RWI..?

 

[Dave2302]

Its about them who make the instructions.

I will just add to this that in UK at least they are under resourced and concentrate on the big fish who import by the container load

 

[derjenigewelcher]

 

[Genta2014]

Any good experience with international carriers like USPS from the UK to Europe ?