I’ve just bought a six from them. So much better with the small rig cage on it!I too have bought fairly regularly from them, the latest received Friday was a pocketable Sony RX100 MK 7. Took around a week, good tracking from DHL once in the UK. Previous acquisitions were shipped by UPS.
If price is your only consideration....Just go with the one which is cheapest at the time.
?If price is your only consideration....
I've bought from e-infinity previously.
Panamoz didn't have stock. If price was equal and stock was available then yes, I would go for the one with longer warranty. If I recall, I bought from Panamoz in Feb 2019, because at the time they were cheaper and anyway they had stock. Although in 50 years of buying photographic equipment I have never once had to make a warranty claim. Nowadays, given my current health situation, a 3 year warranty may well outlast me.I've bought from e-infinity previously.
Recently I bought from panamoz.
Panamoz was £100 more expensive, but I got a 3 year transferable uk warranty, which was worth the extra £100 for me.
If price had been my only consideration I'd have bought from e-infinity.
I've made one claim many years ago.Panamoz didn't have stock. If price was equal and stock was available then yes, I would go for the one with longer warranty. If I recall, I bought from Panamoz in Feb 2019, because at the time they were cheaper and anyway they had stock. Although in 50 years of buying photographic equipment I have never once had to make a warranty claim. Nowadays, given my current health situation, a 3 year warranty may well outlast me.
Valid point.I've made one claim many years ago.
The transferable warranty may help get a slightly better resale price though if selling within 3 years.
Apart from defrauding HMRC if you do not declares the good, or helping a Hong Kong business avoide VAT, then the general opinion is they are ok.Any problems buying from them?
This record is getting a little scratched now <<yawn>>Apart from defrauding HMRC if you do not declares the good, or helping a Hong Kong business avoide VAT, then the general opinion is they are ok.
Do you have evidence that they evade import duties and VAT?Apart from defrauding HMRC if you do not declares the good, or helping a Hong Kong business avoide VAT, then the general opinion is they are ok.
I would investigate HDEW before IE. They include VAT and supply a receipt if asked. I sleep better now I use HDEW.
What exactly does this mean? From the HDEW websiteI sleep better now I use HDEW.
You seriously expect anyone to believe that?However, I was buying from them before the penny dropped in my head as to how they operate. As someone who imports and exports daily I have many years experience in arcane customs procedures.
Plenty, what’s your point ? Do your own research.Do you have evidence that they evade import duties and VAT?
There is no grey area as far as HMRC is concerned, the rules are simple, items imported over a certain value need to be declared for import duty and VAT. What’s grey about that?Is anyone naive enough to think that the HMRC don't know about this "loophole"? The clue is in the terminology - it's a GREY area and so the {present} rules are insufficient to determine if the practice is illegal. If the HMRC thought there was any mileage, they would close down this "loophole". It's not as if the websites concerned are on the Dark Web.
What exactly does this mean? From the HDEW website
HDEW Cameras As Agent
When you buy a product from our website,you are buying direct from our supplier.
HDEW Cameras will act as an agent between you and the supplier and your contract will be directly with them.The name and contact details of the supplier will be provided on your invoice.
If you come to collect the product from our UK premises or you are a business requiring UK vat supply then you can request this service and buy from HDEW Cameras. Further details are listed below under Intellectual Property Rights.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
Please note that by making a purchase on this website you will be acting as the importer of the product for all purposes including all customs regulations,copyright and trademark laws.You accept that the role of HDEW Cameras is limited to sourcing products and making them available for you to import directly from the country of origin.By purchasing a product through this website you authorise us to make arrangements for clearance of customs on your behalf for the products you have ordered.
What a strangely bad tempered response......Pleny, what’s your point ? Do your own research.
Probably how you read it, as opposed to how it was meant.What a strangely bad tempered response......
Going by the number of times you go on about it on these threads it's hard to believe that you don't care, unless your my direct competition getting a commercial advantage by cheating the system, then I don’t care
I have looked and researched this issue over VAT which includes asking these 'grey' imorters how they can sell the products at the reduced prices. I cannot find any evidence at all that the VAT is not paid.Plenty, what’s your point ? Do your own research.
Of course they know - having been involved when HMRC came to visit a (wholly legal) biodiesel production facility they have a better grasp than most other enforcement agencies (including the rozzers) and more powers too.Is anyone naive enough to think that the HMRC don't know about this "loophole"? The clue is in the terminology - it's a GREY area and so the {present} rules are insufficient to determine if the practice is illegal. If the HMRC thought there was any mileage, they would close down this "loophole". It's not as if the websites concerned are on the Dark Web.
I would investigate HDEW before IE. They include VAT and supply a receipt if asked. I sleep better now I use HDEW.
Apart from defrauding HMRC if you do not declares the good, or helping a Hong Kong business avoide VAT, then the general opinion is they are ok.
It happens frequently when folks ask about grey imports.oops looks like I've struck a nerve here
oops looks like I've struck a nerve here
I got my 5D4 in a box made for a much older and cheaper camera... Unless customs got really interested, they'd think I had a compact camera from 2008.