Posted by P Pron on 01/15/06 16:49

andrew.upton4 wrote:
|| "Wesley Mead ('Wezzo')" <wezzo@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
|| news:9rqyf.11822$lL4.11787@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
||| andrew.upton4 wrote:
|||| On 11th Jan, I made two orders from Play.com ( USA ).
|||| The Austin Powers Collection - �15.99 and
|||| Frasier The Final Series - �23.99
|||| They were both dispatched at the same time, but only the Austin
|||| Powers DVDs arrived today.
|||| Anybody have any idea why this should happen ?
|||| Surely they should both get here at the same time ?
||||
||||
||| Frasier will almost certainly have been caught at Customs and will
||| arrive about 4 days later with a customs bill.
|||
||| -Wes

|| What I was wondering was " Why did they send 2 separate deliveries,
|| and not all the DVDs in one bag " ?

It is quite normal for Play and many others to send multiple orders in
separate consignments. Apart from anything else, if you order three discs at
�17 each, you avoid paying VAT - and they may also fit through your
letterbox, thus avoiding a trip to the sorting office or Parcelforce depot.

In this instance, a single parcel would have resulted in your paying VAT on
�40 instead of �24....

paul

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