Rant Please Help Santa go down Throbbi's "chimney"?

I was reading this today and thought what a f*cking kick in the the scrote !! As people know Throbbi was the winner of The Great Satan give away

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=220845

So I thought that it would be nice if people was to pledge some money to help him get the prize that he deserved to win in the first place, My self and Carrie will pledge £15 each And I hope other's will give something to help.

He needs £81 to get it so lets help make Throbbi's christmass

It is christmass people

 

What?

 

Throbbi won the TheGreatSatan's competition for (practically) a full PC. The competition was whoever was having the hardest time at them moment won the PC. He's having a horrendous time, and is practically skint.

However, the two live in different countries, so Throbbi has to pay tons of taxes, tariffs, etc. He's struggling to pay for the import duties and VAT, so Teel and others are planning to contribute some money to this fee.

At least, that's how I think it goes.

 

Oh, it would be nice if the OP made sense!

 

I'll pledge a fiver to a great guy why gave me a faulty 5770 and paid postage while I had no idea about his financial position.

 

That is quite correct and I'm a little in shock and awe at Teezlebub and Carrie taking it upon themselves to do this. I'm quite simply humbled.

I was resigned to waiting for a while in order to gather the funds to pay the duty but this would allow me to retrieve them much earlier and perhaps in time to have some christmas presents.

I really don't know what else to say expect thank you to them, this was proposed completely without my knowledge and the first i knew of it was a few minutes before when i got a PM from Teezle requesting bank details lol.

 

I got £2.35 in my paypal, Teelzebub or Carrie hit me with a paypal related email address and its yours.

Also change the title to "help Santa come down Throbbi's chimney" and this thread will get alot more hits.

 

I would, but i'm as skint as throbbi [i think i have about 12p to my name atm], +rep and good luck though

 

Yea Title changed sorry about the confusion was in a rush doing a few things men cant multi task dont you know lol

Anyway thanks to those that have given so far

 

There should be no import duty and VAT on gifts --if TheGreatSatan clearly indicated that this is what the parcel contains. Also, it is used goods.

I'd say contest it with HM Customs.

 

I've looked through it all and there's still duty on gifts over a certain amount and there's no disputing the amount as the Customs office has so kindly opened the package to have a look.

 

I've bought a fair bit from the USA and tried about every thing a gift, 2nd hand Damaged and even said it was mine being returned and they still make you pay for anything over £18 in value

 

i have a great dislike for customs

I must admit i've come back from the states with a whole suitcase full of electrical goods, nope i have nothing to declare.

where and how do we give monies to, i'll pledge £20

 

+ rep

£57.35 so far pledged nearly there

 

It's truly amazing how awesome some people are

An extra thanks needs to go to Teez again here since he seems to be sorting it all out on here as well, I'm using my phone right now I'm on a break at work.

Seriously you guys are so ****ing awesome. :')

 

Random double post

 

How did the HMRC get to £73.87 Import Duty?????

 

give me a form of contact and i will see what i can do to help

 

I'll match Teel and Carrie. Quite lucky how I just sold a PS3 on Ebay yesterday, some spare cash to throw around

 

So I make the total so far £72.35 + whatever Virus44 is throwing into the mix. I'll make up the difference to bring the total to the £81.