Could someone look at my figures and thinking and tear it apart and tell me where I'm going wrong JSW & Dazzer I know have had experience I would appreciate their comments. As some of you know I've been looking around with a view to upgrading the RV Top of my list at the moment is a Monaco LaPalma XL Diesel pusher; UK price £132k (bit to rich for me) Quote recieved from USA dealer today for fully loaded same Rv 2008 spec; here http://www.rvdeals.net/7655/ $118k offered $36k discount without hardly haggling My Calculation $118000 - 00 @ .49050 reuters today = £57879 - 00 Vat @17.5% = £10129 - 00 Import duty @ 10 % = £ 5789 - 00 Shipping = £ 3000 - 00 Conversion to UK spec = £ 5000 - 00 Unknowns reg/odds & sods = £ 2000 - 00 Total = £83797 - 00 Potential Saving = £48203 - 00 Is this correct because even if I'm £8k adrift it's still a £40k saving or have I missed something obvious that I just can't see.
Purchase price shipping £3000 Duty @ 10% on purchase price and shipping VAT @ 17.5 % on ALL the below. Shipping agent here £100 Electrical conversion £100 to £3000 but £1500 would be a decent price bet you can haggle them down a lot more Can be stressful though oh:but with that saving:thumb:
Yep sounds right to me when i got my boat from the US this was the way it was worked out and i had it over here for 2 years spent over £10,000 on kitting it out and all that goes with it, and when i sold it still made over £9,000 profit on it. :Cool: i was a happy man almost got the RV free So if you can do it with the pound so strong i would go for it ,,, FORDY
:Cool: Here is one from me too. Used them twice. :- http://www.moneycorp.com/personal/account/ BTW. The figures look about right. But the calculation is this:- Purchase price + shipping is charged 10% duty Then:- Purchase price + shipping + 10% duty is charged at the 17.5% VAT.
Thanks all Looks like we've got some serious thinking to do. I would like to go to the states buy an RV and spend 3/4 months touring before shipping home. Jans a bit shell shocked as we planned to do this in about 18 months time. Problem is will the £ / $ situation still be the same, I think when opportunities come along you have to take them, no point crying about missing them later. Exciting times thought I'd be bored being retired have'nt stopped for a minute yet.
We're trying to arrange to go to USA and view as many as possible hopefully in the next couple of weeks. Spoke to a guy who may do us a special deal on a hire as well so we can ship ours back without all the miles on. Keep you informed if I get any good offers.
