I purchased bluray disks from Amazon UK couple of times but luckily the customs was not charged. Some of the FMs in Bangalore got charged, so its purely based on luck
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I purchased bluray disks from Amazon UK couple of times but luckily the customs was not charged. Some of the FMs in Bangalore got charged, so its purely based on luck
raj29shenoy
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Ordered 22 Bond movies Collection + Back to the Future Trilogy from Amazon UK yesterday. Total cost 77 GBP. Used the GBP payment option. It was a wiser decision. Saved 400 Rs/- when compared to choosing INR payment.
A bit surprised and worried that Amazon UK site does not ask for CVV and 3D secure pin for the payment. It directly proceeded with the payment after entering the CC number which makes me wonder how safe it is to use CCs in their website! No security at all!
A total of 25 BDs at the cost of 299 Rs per BD. It is damn cheap. Now keeping my fingers crossed on 0% customs duty.
Thanks for the tip guys. Will keep you posted regarding the customs duty.
A bit surprised and worried that Amazon UK site does not ask for CVV and 3D secure pin for the payment. It directly proceeded with the payment after entering the CC number which makes me wonder how safe it is to use CCs in their website! No security at all!
A total of 25 BDs at the cost of 299 Rs per BD. It is damn cheap. Now keeping my fingers crossed on 0% customs duty.
Thanks for the tip guys. Will keep you posted regarding the customs duty.
oops.. i did the same thing and it confirmed my order. not even asked for any cvv/pin number. 22.75 for harry potter complete 8 film (region free) collection. Is it a good buy or shall i cancel the order. please confirm. Still not received any SMS notification from my Credit card as well...
The 2 factor authentication is only relevant (regulated by RBI) in India. Foreign merchant sites do not need to have this security feature. Hence the reasoning behind the bank's in India introduced the functionality of setting an international limit on your CC. This way you can allow a maximum limit per transaction/day and reduce the risk. Also all the Indian CC banks now provide a feature of whether to allow international transactions on the CC. Simple and effective way of preventing the fraud on foreign transactions. Please take this option seriously as I do enable this feature whenever I want to purchase and on successful ordering I again disable the international transaction feature.
raj29shenoy
Member
My transaction went through within an hour I bought the BDs. Today they have dispatched the blu-rays have been dispatched.
Now I should disable international transactions.
Now I should disable international transactions.
Does this amount include currency charges?
raj29shenoy
Member
Transaction is now been reflected in my CC statement today. HDFC has additionally charged 2% conversion fee + service tax and edu cess over the transaction. So the difference has come down to ~ 230 Rs/- (instead of 400 Rs/- as mentioned earlier). Still a better deal than choosing Amazon INR option.
I made another transaction today and by mistake didn't change the INR option. So ended up paying in INR only though I could see there was overall Rs.200 difference between the conversion rate and actual rate. But I am now scared to cancel the order with the risk of money coming back to my Credit card. Decided to stay with it instead of taking the risk of cancelling the order to save INR 200.
raj29shenoy
Member
Have you ever been levied with customs duty for all your purchases? Or this is is your first purchase?
good question. This is my second purchase in the gap of 3 days. yet to get the first one as it was ordered just 3 days back. I would not think to buy again for some time. keeping my fingers crossed to see the experience I get from these two purchases first.
raj29shenoy
Member
Ok. But keep me posted when you receive your package.
raj29shenoy
Member
Received my order today..within 6 days of ordering It was a total surprise.
And was not charged a single penny as Customs duty! :yahoo:
Here are the calculations:
1. Price shown in amazon.uk minus 16.67 % VAT
2. Convert to INR by the Credit Card
3. Add conversion markup fee (2% in my CC) plus 12.36% (of conversion fee) Service Tax and edu cess
4. Add customs duty (0 in my case)
Result: A very happy me!:licklips:
It was a total surprise.And was not charged a single penny as Customs duty! :yahoo:
Here are the calculations:
1. Price shown in amazon.uk minus 16.67 % VAT
2. Convert to INR by the Credit Card
3. Add conversion markup fee (2% in my CC) plus 12.36% (of conversion fee) Service Tax and edu cess
4. Add customs duty (0 in my case)
Result: A very happy me!
:licklips:
Received my order today..within 6 days of ordering
And was not charged a single penny as Customs duty! :yahoo:
Here are the calculations:
1. Price shown in amazon.uk minus 16.67 % VAT
2. Convert to INR by the Credit Card
3. Add conversion markup fee (2% in my CC) plus 12.36% (of conversion fee) Service Tax and edu cess
4. Add customs duty (0 in my case)
Result: A very happy me!
Have never been charged customs for parcels from UK and they all arrive within 8 days. US is a another story altogether
raj29shenoy
Member
Its a good motivation to keep on ordering from UK!
kestrel5915
Member
Is everyone ordering only the region free blu ray discs from UK and US?
I have a PS3 and a PS4 both bought from India so that means they can only play the Region C and Region Free ones, right?
I have a PS3 and a PS4 both bought from India so that means they can only play the Region C and Region Free ones, right?
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