Sad news today that the Treasury is set to close the under-£18 VAT free loophole for goods from the Channel Islands, thus endangering about the best bloke's pick-me-up site on the web - 7-Day Shop. No connection. I spend about a tenner a month here in a sort of low-maintenance retail therapy sort of way (compare and contrast to the cost of a pair of Mahono Blaniks or whatever they're called).
So if you haven't got one of these yet, shell out £16.99 inc. del. whilst you can and see what you can do with a toy plane and some masking tape (it's a bloke thing):-
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The plane might be a boy thing but the little camera isn't! I am going to attach one to my dog :-) and find out where he goes on his walks!
Her Radders, I didn't know you flew model aircraft?
Coney Island to the rescue - You can get much smaller cameras than the one in your link from ebay and for just £7.99 inc post and pack delivered from China. Just search for key fob camera. I have a full colour 24fpm camera with sound half the size of my car key fob and in fact it looks just like a car key fob, just the thing if you are a spy! Or a model plane flyer!
And for your delectation, here's me flying my Tutor 40 at Templeton air base (disused). I still love my Tutor with over sized engine after nearly 4 years of ownership - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUKZEYxTnRA - Watch this baby fly! It ain't no Tutor anymore!
And you can see my Pitts Special bi-plane here at the same airfield - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ciw2OToksc The pilot in the video is now the ex-owner, I bought it from him. All the specs are at the start of the video. Enjoy!
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Similarly, I am a Play.com regular for the odd DVD or book impulse.
To be fair, the VAT loophole is difficult to justify!
Bugger! I get all my batteries and stuff from there.
Of course it was bound to end in tears when Amazon muscled in, I have had their CDs are supplied under the same loophole by Indigostarfish.
But does this mean that anything brought from abroad via Ebay will be similarly affected?
Hey Woodsie - go to Hobbyking / Hobbycity (same web shop) in Hong Kong!
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Anther point Raedwald, and,I have followed it a bit further on my blog, is that the report says it's to be scrapped on all under £18 imported orders. Not just Channel Islands. That will hit all overseas mini-shopping and kids' pocket money purchases on Ebay etc as well as anonymous' Hong Kong stuff.
I note that the BBC sold this item of news, not as a straightforward increase in tax on the consumer, but as an anti-avoidance measure closing down a benefit to those suppliers providing UK consumers with VAT-free goods. Increasing the cost of goods by 20% is OK with the BBC as long as it can lie about the incidence of the tax and take a swipe - no matter how ill-informed and misleading - at the private sector.
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