Recent content by jjscruff

  1. J

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    thanks for tip from someone about using a pdf scan to find the surcharges quickly I've tabled mine out and asked for evidence
  2. J

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    started getting these incorrectly labelled and unreadable barcode BS charges now how does one challenge them again? i'm only getting a couple here and there I don't want to read over the 5 pages again. cheers
  3. J

    Shipping low cost products to US from August 29

    What is goin on here there's so little talk about this? I guess there just aren't many UK businesses who export physical goods to the US The US Global de minimis exemption ends aug 29. I only just found this out, as last i heard it was just for chinese stuff If i sell a £20 t shirt to a US...
  4. J

    Anyone have a capital on tap card?

    @Ozzy Is this still the case? llooking at this card. cheers
  5. J

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    @Gary Durn what do you say/what evidence do you provide to RM to get refunds on weight discrepancies? Whats IPROL?
  6. J

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    i came on this forum today to look for RM alternatives as i'm sick of them and low and behold the first thread is exactly about the issues i face. My charges are all weight related, they will invoice for a 20g discrepency which could easily just be calibration inconsistency between two sets of...
  7. J

    Confusing quote for a shipment from china

    I get stuff shipped from China all the time but i've started using a new company This latest shipment is just a small one, less than one pallet load of clothing They want to ship the items DDP via ocean freight, total cost $300 There are no extra charges. But i told them i'd be looking to...
  8. J

    Can anyone recommend a good (cheap) shipping company from China ?

    i use this company, not just for amazon shipments https://fbabee.com/ I'm angry with myself for not using them sooner, their communication, speed and price are unbelievable
  9. J

    Returns solution for small FBM amazon seller in UK selling to US

    I sell items from the UK to US on amazon (FBM) Occasionally customers want to return items. At the moment i use a returns company The customer can ship the product to this company at my expense, via amazon returns Then the company return the items to me from the US This worked OK when i was busy...
  10. J

    Registering part of home as business premises

    thanks, why do you think previous owners would have done this? a bit annoying we weren't told the real band essentially by the sellers
  11. J

    Registering part of home as business premises

    Moved into new home in july and just received a letter from the council saying they've bumped us up in to a higher council tax rate. Confusingly the letter doesn't say how much our council tax is going up. Its already more than £3k a year which was a surprise to me. Council's reasoning is that...
  12. J

    Does an intern set HMRC's monthly average exchange rates?

    @scstock so the monthly rate is from one day? what logic is there in that over an average?
  13. J

    Does an intern set HMRC's monthly average exchange rates?

    I'm talking about these https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-exchange-rates-for-2022-monthly Usually they seem to lean to a weak pound, thus any earnings made in USD will be taxed more highly as the value of the goods/services is greater. Last three months though they've gone the...
  14. J

    Accounting software for amazon

    damn all these things are trash. Now on A2X trial "can't connect with amazon US account" then successfully connects to UK account but the settlements its pulls are the US account in USD. And I can't get the UK ones. Don't know how anyone uses these things
  15. J

    Accounting software for amazon

    i got on a live chat with link my books who after many screenshots and painful explaining to the support, they said that the reason it wasn't splitting my sales into UK/ROTW was because of a "glitch" They said they'd fixed it but its 24 hours later and i still can't check because it keeps...