In that case you should be selling your services to the RHA. Got to be worth £1000 a day + expenses.
Brexit: give me a positive effect... X
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stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
richardg
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Our business. Our situation has bene accurately reported by recent media stories. Yes we had a nightmare, parcels were getting sent back by customs departments even though we did as they asked us, customers were going nuts. we lost a bit of money.
But it has settled down incredibly fast. So I expect export figures to bounce back for February. Whether PFM members will discuss the bounce back rationally is another issue.
richardg
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They have not increased. Gone down in fact as the USD is not so strong right now and that is how we buy.
richardg
Admonishtrator
I am not sure actually.And / or the customers' costs.
richardg
Admonishtrator
This article is interesting to me, as it describes companies that are now reactively doing what we did as soon as the June 2016 results were announced. We had set up a small warehouse in Germany by August 2017 and have since more than tripled our business from about 300k per year to nearly a million. We expect 10% growth this year.
Change brings opportunity to those that are enterprising.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
So you're not passing costs on?
Good to know, as that seems a common complaint at the moment.
richardg
Admonishtrator
No, I think there may be costs of 4% duty applied here and there...but nowt to do with us.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
He got as far as saying "We outwitted them [EU]" and I switched off. It's not a ****ing comptetition.
Apologies if I jumped to the wrong conclusion early and he has an ironic delivery style; he just comes across as more Bellend than Belfield
stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
it’s micro companies who are struggling. They can’t afford not to pass costs on or as the Government suggest get professionals in to sort out the new admin.
The Tories used to support business didn’t they? They used to brag about it anyhow.
Honey! I shrunk the market.
Stephen
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
No you were right and consistent with the IQ of the deliverer.
richardg
Admonishtrator
Not really, it was couriers and shipping agents that were running around like headless chickens, we just stopped using them after the batch of returns in the 1st week of Jan, until they sorted it, took less than 4 weeks.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Great to hear your business is doing well - seems like you've worked hard to make it succeed and deserve to do well.
Nick_G
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Colin Barron
pfm Member
The EU 'tanker' will plod on taking lorry drivers sandwiches until this Covid money runs out and economic realities kick in with individual countries.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Which raises the question - where is Andrew Bridgen? The normally shouty, neckless root vegetable merchant hasn’t made a public appearance in a while
tonerei
pfm Member
But you operate from France/Germany Richard? AFAIK you have no UK branch or interactions? I assume if selling into the UK you discount the VAT and the buyer pays UK vat and whatever charges are applied by UK custom and excise. Do you sell much into the UK?
You are right in that I would expect the companies that are run very tightly and have products that can't be got in the UK will recover at least some if not a big portion of their sales. But not so sure with Cheshire cheese and lagoustines. It will need more that a bit of a deft hand with paperwork and hard work. It may happen if the UK start rowing back on some of the excesses but of course this is what they should have negotiated in the first place?
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