Kim & Co Canadian website

I have been waiting for ages for an item to come back in stock on QVC so decided to look at the Canadian Kim & Co website. The trousers were available at reasonable price including P&P, in a colour not available here. On QVC they would have been £41.95. On Kim's home country website the order was 72 Canadian dollars = £38.07.
Most laughable was the fact that P&P was £6.34 from Canada!! Only £2.39 more.
Take a look!

Be careful you may have to pay duty.

Yes, you will be hit with customs duty.

Not a penny as they were labelled "a gift". Very thoughtful of Kim & Co Canada. Thank you I was aware of that though.

So, import fraud then!

But even gifts are subject to customs duty. Many have been caught out by that one. If the price is over £35 or might £32 it can still be charged. You would have to get them to mark down the price and business will not do that as a rule.

There was a thread on the Moneysaving site about this, a man received family gifts from Australia and was outraged to get a card telling him to come pay the duty on them.

It's the importer's legal responsibility to ensure the goods are correctly declared. The importer is the customer and not the carrier - the carrier is merely the 'agent'.

Commercial purchases are clearly not gifts.

https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty

It's a minefield from what I can see having read quite a bit about it lately. This package arrived in a UPS bag inside a DHL Express Worldwide bag with invoice showing, clearly marked as a gift but no value showing.

Recently purchased a glass bead via Ebay for my bracelet and got stung by Royal Mail for import tax, VAT AND a handling charge and total amount was two thirds of the value of the bead. Made it a very expensive purchase!

Maybe I wouldn't recommend doing this but might be worth a shot if your heart is set on something in particular that you cannot get on QVCUK but be prepared to pay duty. Perhaps I just got lucky this time.