Hi there,
I bought an Item (a Chinese phone to be precise) from a seller who set the Item location as United Kingdom, set shipping info as "Domestic Shipping to the UK" and even put a timeline on the listing showing UK as the shortest distance for shipping,the other day. The cost of the phone was higher than what I had seen on other Chinese websites so I presumed and after reading the listing that the product was already in the UK - thus negating any worry of having to pay VAT + Duty Tax when it arrives.
However, after paying for the item and receiving the shipping number (after asking for it more than once!) I found out that the Item wasn't in the UK and was actually in China! Which I feel is very deceitful of the seller considering his listing implications more than once that it's in the UK!
Obviously it's already in a process now so I can't bloody well cancel it - but I was wondering what can I actually do? I've tried communicating with the seller to arrange some kind of deal to get some money knocked off etc. but he won't respond to me.
If the phone gets stuck at the port which the VAT + Duty Tax required to be paid who is liable to pay? Can I refuse to pay and just allow the phone to get destroyed and claim back through Paypal as technically I won't have received the phone?
I could really use some advise please...