RX42B motor prices

QUOTE (Pendleslot @ 26 Jul 2012, 10:46) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>No tax, no vat, no over heads, no wages, no rent, no rates........ sounds like heaven
http://www.pendleslotracing.gi ?

Great information...two quick things to add from an American point of view.

1) Stooo is completely correct, CMOTD...sales tax should only be collected if the Seller has a bricks-and-mortar presence
in the US state you are purchasing from (we don't have a National VAT here, at least yet). So if you're buying from the UK and
you get hit with a tax, he's making a mistake in how he set up his Ebay auction, or flat out cheating you. Point it out next time
(ask for an invoice without the tax)...if he refuses, that's not a guy you want to do business with anyway.

2) fwiw, I think it should be noted that SCX is by far the least known 1/32 slot car seller in the US...in a country which largely
isn't aware of slot cars at all. I think there's some merit to the argument that pricing SCX...especially for parts in this case...
would have to be overly competitive to penetrate the market.

As for how Britain gets ripped off and how American's won't pay more that $4 for a US gallon of gas...shall I mention a friend
of my wife who is dying of a brain tumor because she can't afford the $60k down payment (honestly, just a down payment!) to have
an operation? There are funny imbalances all over the world.

John

Is there any import or customs duty on products from the SCX factory to be paid by the UK importer and did the OP pay any import duty on his shipment?
Did the Op's products come from a brick-mortar business or an on-line retailer operating from his front room? (don't laugh I know one in the UK and In Canada).
Volume? SCX is more popular in the US?

Then there is 20% VAT which is not anything to do with the UK retailer. Did the OP pay VAT on his shipment?

A side note. Next time the OP goes to the doctor or has the misfortune to be admitted to hospital maybe he should be charged US rates?

I'm not saying all my math makes sense but like many things in life it is not all clear cut.

If I may add a personal note? Many years ago my mother visited me in Canada after some exchange rate calculations in the grocery store she was amazed how much cheaper stuff was until she dd a bit more thinking and then realized that actually the numbers were all pretty much the same. Ie. the same number of dollars was charged for items as was the same number of pounds in UK. From that point on she just shopped normally as she as accustomed to.

I stand corrected on the sales tax even though I am, of course, sitting down. As the motors were so cheap anyway I don't think I will bother to reclaim it from the seller. American sales taxes are truly bizarre. At a hotel in Savannah last year I was charged state and city sales tax plus a bed (occupancy) tax! Can you buy expensive things, like a car, out of state on the internet and avoid taxes?

I am also not quite sure what our respective health care systems have to do with the price of toy plastic cars but most Americans I have met seem to think our NHS is verging on communism.

Anyway, back to topic - yes I bought from a "bricks and mortar" store and I had a choice of several selling at the same price. Stripping out tax from the equation, the fact remains that a UK dealer will pay the distributor £6.60 for an RX42B and his American counterpart can sell the same item at £5 and, presumably, make a profit. As far as I am aware there is no import duty payable by the UK distributor as we are part of the E.U. as is Spain.

Nobody has yet given me a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancy.

QUOTE Anyway, back to topic - yes I bought from a "bricks and mortar" store and I had a choice of several selling at the same price. Stripping out tax from the equation, the fact remains that a UK dealer will pay the distributor £6.60 for an RX42B and his American counterpart can sell the same item at £5 and, presumably, make a profit. As far as I am aware there is no import duty payable by the UK distributor as we are part of the E.U. as is Spain.

Nobody has yet given me a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancy.

Have you not answered your own question?

I doubt if anyone from SCX will answer on a public forum the reason for the price differences.
I also doubt wether the UK distributor will publish his buying prices.
At the end of the day, the UK has had some exceptionally good offers on SCX in the past year or so. Perhaps similar questions were being asked in the US why cars were so cheap on this side of the pond.

I just don't buy into the whole 'rip off Britain' suggestion.

Sean

QUOTE (CMOTD @ 28 Jul 2012, 09:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Can you buy expensive things, like a car, out of state on the internet and avoid taxes?

I am also not quite sure what our respective health care systems have to do with the price of toy plastic cars but most Americans I have met seem to think our NHS is verging on communism.

CMOTD,
I'm not participating in the larger discussion because most of it is outside my experience. About car taxes, it doesn't matter where you buy...they get you when you register
the car in your own state. About my off-center mention of health care, I was simply suggesting that when one considers relative cost-of-living, or more specifically whether
Britain is being ripped off, it seems to me that one has to look at the whole picture. So for example, yeah, we get cheap gas and then extraordinary medical bills.

I agree that many Americans think that Nationalized health care is some form of Communism...frankly it IS Socialistic, and that's fine with me. My taxes have to go somewhere,
and I'd rather have free healthcare than another F-16. But that's just me *grin*

QUOTE (4.3 ZOOK @ 1 Aug 2012, 05:35) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I assume that the sales tax from a particular state would apply to overseas orders as well(person).

I see what you're thinking...but the Internet isn't handled the same way.

here's an example:
Say I live in Arizona (which has tax) and order via Internet from Oregon (which has no tax).
It doesn't matter whether Oregon has tax or not...I pay Arizona tax rate, and ONLY if that
Oregon store also has a store in Arizona.

Obviously, interstate tax makes no sense internationally. Also, note that Americans don't pay
the UK VAT when ordering from Pendles or wherever.

So, long and short of it...no, taxes are never to be collected by US citizens selling overseas.