[time-nuts] Be aware of test equipment seller orzel-enterprises on eBay

[Chris Albertson]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Kirkby <david.kirkby at onetel.net>wrote:

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> I've also had to pay inport duties and VAT on this, which comes to a
> US equivalent of around $220. I doubt I will be able to recover that.
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Talk to your customs people.  Almost always oin most con tries if you
"re-export" an item you can apply for a refund.  I don't know the rules in
the UK but it works like that in the US and Canada.

One amusing case was when I worked at Hughes Aircraft.  The company
imported a rather large (close to $1M) diamond from Amsterdam and paid a
large duty on it.  They sawed a section out of it to make an optical window
for a probe to be sent to Venus.  Then after launch they applied for and
got a refund of the duty because the diamond was exported out of the US to
another planet where to this day it remains.     My point is that re-export
is common and they should have a procedure for it.

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California