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Hi Guys,As a normally satisfied Hattons customer, who has always received very prompt attention with any isues with mail orders, I'm rather concerned with a possible error over a clearly stated price.
I logged-on to Hattons site and checked the box for these buffer stops (SL-41) at £1.60 and went to my basket and increased the quantity to five and noted the delivery charge of £2.75. On the basket total, the VAT element was clearly shown with a breakdown into nett price plus VAT, to give the total overal price of £8.00, inc VAT.
To avoid confusion, the £1.60 unit price specifically says includes VAT. The total for all five buffer stops is £8.00, plus £2.75 delivery, making a total of £10.75.
Are you saying that you were charged £10.00 plus £2.75 delivery, making a total invoiced sum of £12.75 Kevin?
The difference between £2.00 and £1.60 is not the VAT at 20%, so something is certainly confussed here, as this is clearly not a VAT issue.
Hopefully you'll get an explanation from Hattons very soon Kevin and hopefully get your £2.00 back!
Good luck,
Bill
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Hi Kevin,Hi Brian. The Peco sleeper built buffer stops were advertised at £1.60 plus each and I purchased five of them P & P was £ 2.75 which wasn’t too bad, but, when they arrived today, I was charged £2.00 each. And there wasn’t a mention of “ Ex Vat. I think that they are taking the P155. Best wishes Kevin
You have been overcharged. Demand a refund. The Hattons price is £1.60 including VAT, £1.33 ex-VAT. Postage for 1 is £2.75, 5 would be the same. Unless they dinged you 40p postage for each one. Peco doesn't have a PI55 item.
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Hi Bill. This is another reply. I have just read on Hattons advert “ All prices include VATâ€. Best wishes Kevin
That is correct,VAT is only removed for sales outside of the EU. You in the UK pay the VAT, I don't & what I save ,pays for the postage
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Then if you expected to pay £9.15, you must have only wanted four buffer stops Kevin, not the five you previously mentioned.Hi Bill. Thank you for your reply. There was definitely no mention in the advertised price of Ex Vat. No I did not expect to pay £10.75 , and I accepted the P & P of £2.75 as fair where some sharks expect a much higher P & P.I expected to pay £9.15 . Best wishes Kevin
As I said before, you only get to see the VAT breakdown when you go to the basket page to pay.
Mystery solved then. I'm sure you'll find a spot for the extra buffer stop.
Bill
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One of the things I used to question when I was in the S&T was why the buffer stop lamps weren't maintained by us as technically they were the final 'stop' signal on a route. After all the last running signal when entering a terminus cannot be pulled off to a greater aspect than a single yellow - or is distant fixed to 'on' if a mechanical one. This led to interesting discussions about putting buffer stop lamps into locking circuits with all the paraphernalia and so on that would entail, especially if they were still oil lit!
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Why would someone go to the work of cutting sleepers to that sloped shape, They didn't they normally had a flat top.
Those type buffer boxes were normally built with full or half sleepers therefore one sleeper width facing the track And between a half or 3/4 a sleeper high.
That's 8ft 6inch wide, 34mm in 4mm scale, 17mm in 2mm
4ft 3inches high 17mm in 4mm, 8.5mm in 2mm. Half sleeper
6ft4inches 25mm high in 4 mm, 12mm in 2mm 3/4 sleeper.
Buffers themselves are normally set at roughly 3ft 6inches above track level.
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