[purchase] Well, indeed this was a surprise in more ways than one! I often make little YesStyle orders – it’s a site that stocks loads of Japanese and Korean brands and ships easily and quickly to the UK. But for the first time ever, I got a Custom’s Charge on my most recent order which included the Surprising Bath Bomb. With the tax and handling charge, it came to just over £17 – ouch! So, that was the bad surprise…
Because it’s impossible to read packaging, what I thought I was ordering was a cat-shaped bath bomb which I thought would be fun, so the next surprise was that it’s a ball. A lemony scented, tightly packed fizz bomb that took almost longer than my bath to fully dissolve. However, in the middle was this…
I mean, it’s hard to be cross about anything when the last surprise is this! So, I definitely got more than I was expecting. It’s so unusual to get a custom’s charge on products from that site but I can’t recommend that you buy one just in case you do. When I think about it, there were little characters next to the packaging but I thought they were just the ‘real thing’ that the bombs were in the shape of… when I look back now, I see it is fully explained and not sure how I ever missed it. Happy Friday to all – and happy weekend. x
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Yeah I had that once happen to me to with the order and every time I order I have to cross my fingers that there won’t be any custom charges
Never, ever had it before.
I love it! Black cats are the best.
They credited my account with the amount I paid in custom charges. It was great. I just emailed the receipt.
Oh wow.. that’s good.
Hi Jane, YesStyle seem to have a customs charge/tax fee refund policy – I only quickly read it but UK charges don’t seem to one of the few excluded from this policy – might be worth checking out?
I’ve not placed an order with them yet but your blog has almost tipped me over into doing so several times – the cute stationery section might make great easy-to-post little gifts for friends and family that I may not be able to see in person this year (hope for the best, plan for the not-so-good!)
Hope the link below might be helpful on the charges thing, Jo 🙂
https://www.yesstyle.com/en/help/section.html/hsi.2212
Amazing.. so helpful, thank you!
I’ve always had it when trying to order from Colourpop (whyyyy won’t they launch here??), but never from an Asian site. I know some people have had issues with Asian beauty products containing banned substances being seized – the orchid line from Innisfree is a common one since it seems to contain a botanical extract from a plant considered endangered by the EU.
Ah, useful to know, thank you 🙂
If it was within the last 30 days, you can claim the charges back from Yes Style — which is a nice surprise?
That IS a good surprise!
Hi Jane, have you heard of the new import rules the uk govt are introducing from 1st jan? I’m worried this will mean it’s way more expensive to buy from… literally everywhere
Yes, I haven’t studied them in depth but you may well be right – we don’t, as yet have a trade agreement with China (YS is based in Hong Kong, I think). We do have one with Korea but whether things will be more costly isn’t really clear yet.
I’ve already bought a few of these as gifts (cats for my mum and Pokemon for my brother and boyfriend!) and they are perfect for stockings. Yesstyle is great for those kind of extra gifts. My mum’s favourite birthday present was a mini craft knife shaped like a cloud from Yesstyle so that she would have her own when I moved out…!
That sounds fun! I like cloud shaped things 🙂