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    Buying Land to Build a Warehouse

    Besides estate agents and Rightmove etc. where would you get started with locating land with the vision of building a warehouse? Specific locality does not matter, other than being within 20 miles of a specific town. E-commerce business, looking for ~one acre.
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    £9 Per Day Electrical Standing Charge

    I've seen this link but it doesn't provide standing charges for electricity. It seems very vague, saying it is "specific to the site".
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    £9 Per Day Electrical Standing Charge

    I wasn't in a contract during the dates of the disputed amount. It was a different supplier.
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    £9 Per Day Electrical Standing Charge

    An electricity company [TotalEnergies] has raised £9 per day in standing charges. We got into a contract five weeks after possession at a reasonable rate, however, it has led to ~£400 in extortionate day rate charges for the period prior to the contract. These charges are 1800% more than what...
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    Receiving Payments from Russian Customers

    Do any other business owners know of any ways to accept payments from Customers in Russia, besides cryptocurrency? We presently have a Customer who owes for orders just before the Russian-Ukraine crisis, whereby IBAN and cards payments were subsequently suspended. The Customer maintains he has...
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    £3M+ to Build 20k Square Foot Warehouse / Sourcing from China

    Thanks all. It's a 13k square foot ground floor + 7k square foot first floor [like that due to the council]. 98% is warehouse storage. It seems senseless to go ahead with the building project, unless I can bring the cost down substantially to £2M maximum. I'll look to change the warehouse design...
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    £3M+ to Build 20k Square Foot Warehouse / Sourcing from China

    The tenders have come in for our warehouse rebuild project. They're priced between £3-3.5M. Double what we were expecting. The warehouse is 20,500 square feet, including a first floor. There is nothing special about it. Having paid £350k for the land and current 60 year old dilapidated...
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    Deferment Account with Parcelforce and Royal Mail

    Has anyone had success with setting up deferment accounts with Parcelforce and Royal Mail using their HMRC DAN number for VAT and duties for imports? We are successful with FedEx, DHL, DPD and UPS.
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    Does a Duty Deferment Account Eliminate Courier Brokerage Fees?

    We have a 'duty deferment account' with HMRC [for VAT and duties]. If we authorise DHL, UPS etc. to use our DAN number, does this eliminate the brokerage or handling fee that the couriers usually impose?
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    45 Euro Export Paper Fee PER BOX from Germany?

    Two suppliers in Germany are advising that if shipping orders over 1000 Euros, there is a 45 Euro export paper fee - not per consignment but per box. They refused to ship our 10 boxes with DPD or DHL [on one waybill] and would only ship on a pallet which has one export fee. Looking to...
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    120 Euro Brokerage Fee to Greece [DHL]

    Greece appears to be a problematic country to ship to for the time ahead for UK exporters. Several of our business Greek Customers have mentioned a 120 Euro brokerage charge by DHL [excluding the duties and tax]. Does anyone know any ways around this or any 'better' couriers for Greece? I am...
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    UK to EU-VAT-Registered-Customer Shipments

    We are based the United Kingdom. Our products are made in the United Kingdom. We have a Customer in Germany who is VAT registered. We have the Customer's DE VAT number. We have a GB VAT Number and a GB EORI Number for export. We send on the normal EXW / DDU service. We use DHL. Will the...
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    PayPal Fee Increase - where's the uproar? ;s

    Everything clear in this thread on USD currency. What about EUROs? Are there PayPal UK account holders able to successfully withdraw EUROs to a Euro bank account?
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