[tomtom]

Had anyone any recent experience advice about this?

Heard a lot of bad stuff in the press about couriers not taking things shipped to the EU and duty/vat charges at either end being applied.

I’ve a jacket I want to send to Patagucci to be repaired (goes to Spain) and was thinking of trying the scarpa resole experience on some shoes (post to Italy etc..) but the above stories put me off. May of course be simpler - or more complex if it’s shipping stuff for repair.

[Johnny Brown]

Yes, we import loads of Petzl gear etc every week. I wouldn't go anywhere near it for a while.

[tomtom]

Yes, we import loads of Petzl gear etc every week. I wouldn't go anywhere near it for a while.

Cheers - I thought I’d leave it a few weeks - maybe best left for longer then!

[teestub]

Ordered a Moleskine first week of Jan which I didn’t realise would ship from Europe, just arrived today with an apology email!

[remus]

Not sure about imports but stuff going out has been pretty crap for us. Was trying to sort out a chap in Ireland a few days ago and the post office wouldn't even give us an estimate for how long the parcel would take to arrive!

[rginns]

Had anyone any recent experience advice about this?

Heard a lot of bad stuff in the press about couriers not taking things shipped to the EU and duty/vat charges at either end being applied.

I’ve a jacket I want to send to Patagucci to be repaired (goes to Spain) and was thinking of trying the scarpa resole experience on some shoes (post to Italy etc..) but the above stories put me off. May of course be simpler - or more complex if it’s shipping stuff for repair.

Not sure how repairs / returns will go, but I dare say they'll be exempt. Be careful how you fill the customs paperwork in though. And the courrier may well apply their own charge anyway. Random and seemingly inconsistent `disbursement` fees can be applied so check with the shipper first. Higher value stuff is subject to VAT being charged to release the goods and claimed back later.
None of the shippers seem to know what they're doing.

Basically it's an be absolute nightmare which makes exporting extremely difficult for both sides. I'm sure it'll calm down.

Will of the people though yeah?

[abarro81]

For the Scarpa resole I think you'd go via Mountain Boot Company, who would probably be doing all the admin for you... But I'd bet they wouldn't be able to answer how long it would take!

[205Chris]

Had anyone any recent experience advice about this?

Heard a lot of bad stuff in the press about couriers not taking things shipped to the EU and duty/vat charges at either end being applied.

I’ve a jacket I want to send to Patagucci to be repaired (goes to Spain) and was thinking of trying the scarpa resole experience on some shoes (post to Italy etc..) but the above stories put me off. May of course be simpler - or more complex if it’s shipping stuff for repair.

Does it need to go back to Patagucci (warranty?).

Alpkit do a very good repair service based in the UK. Fitted a new zip to my Arcteryx jacket when the offical line was 'post it to Switzerland for assessment'

[tomtom]

Had anyone any recent experience advice about this?

Heard a lot of bad stuff in the press about couriers not taking things shipped to the EU and duty/vat charges at either end being applied.

I’ve a jacket I want to send to Patagucci to be repaired (goes to Spain) and was thinking of trying the scarpa resole experience on some shoes (post to Italy etc..) but the above stories put me off. May of course be simpler - or more complex if it’s shipping stuff for repair.

Does it need to go back to Patagucci (warranty?).

Alpkit do a very good repair service based in the UK. Fitted a new zip to my Arcteryx jacket when the offical line was 'post it to Switzerland for assessment'

Yeah - two small coin sized holes (all the way through) from a hot stick by a fire - in a (then) brand new synth padded jacket - forgotten the name of the type but has little odd shaped panels. Nicely cauterised by the heat - but would need patching with the exact fabric in the exact panel size... Easy I suspect for the patagucci repair team with a roll of the fabric etc...

Had done all the free repair paperwork and assessment in March... and then everything shut down...

[SA Chris]

Yeah - two small coin sized holes (all the way through) from a hot stick by a fire - in a (then) brand new synth padded jacket - forgotten the name of the type but has little odd shaped panels. Nicely cauterised by the heat - but would need patching with the exact fabric in the exact panel size... Easy I suspect for the patagucci repair team with a roll of the fabric etc...

Just call them hot rock burns and be done with it. De rigueur for any climber's fleece back in the day,

[mrjonathanr]

I would try Lancashire Sports Repairs first. Crux were good enough to repair my plasma jacket for free- but it’s actually LSR who did the work and posted it back to me. It’s immaculate.

They repair a lot of different brands. https://lancashiresportsrepairs.co.uk/

[andy_e]

My new work laptop was supposed to come from Ireland, but the first time they dispatched it it got turned back at customs as it didn't have the right paper work. They resent it with a different courier, and this time it made it all the way to Dyce, just up the road from where I was, but had a £550 imprt duty slapped on it. It got sent back to Ireland, and I got bought a laptop from within the UK. The whole thing cost my company an untold amount in both the faffing around (they now have a high-spec laptop in Ireland that they toerhwise wouldn't have needed) and about a month of lost productive time.

[tomtom]

But “teething troubles” on the bumpy road to the promised land.....

Guess that means cheap outdoor stuff from the aplinetrek/ Bergkit (etc..) European discounters is now going to be daft expensive...

And a huge loss of market for any small UK manufacturers....

[abarro81]

But at least we'll have ultra high power kettles and hoovers. And our freedom back. Not the freedom to travel. Or work. Or live. Or shop. Or export easily. But the important freedoms like the freedom to have fewer employment rights.

Tbh I'm more pissed than ever at brexiteers.

[SA Chris]

And a huge loss of market for any small UK manufacturers....

No, we'll all be able to buy stuff from UK companies making stuff for the UK Market.

Dibs I start up making climbing shoes, skis and ski boots. I mean how hard can it be?

[Oldmanmatt]

And a huge loss of market for any small UK manufacturers....

No, we'll all be able to buy stuff from UK companies making stuff for the UK Market.

Dibs I start up making climbing shoes, skis and ski boots. I mean how hard can it be?

Depends if you’re also producing the materials you need to make the damn things.
As long as you can make it out of “Sunny Up Lands”, “Sovereignty” and “Not Talking Britain Down”, you’ll be quids in.*

*I keep looking, but can’t find any of those in the Periodic Table, despite Government assurances that they are all I need for a happy life.

[SA Chris]

Depends if you’re also producing the materials you need to make the damn things.

Project Fear. We'll make do, we have everything we need home grown here, except pineapples.

[lagerstarfish]

all these kids who are not going to school at the moment - we need to redeploy them as landfill miners to get the materials Britain needs to become the world leader in making shit out of other shit to sell to each other

[tomtom]

I think the UK should launch a new cryptocurrency to celebrate our new found freedom.

BritCoin

Of course mined by small children from old landfill sites.

[petejh]

...you could ask the small company 30 miles up the road from you in Burnley - who specialise in repairing your jacket and boots - whether they'll accept your newly-minted britcoin. Instead of mailing them in two separate shipments to Spain and Italy. Just a thought..

I mean it's almost as if there are market forces at play as some ways of doing things change and the market finds new winners and losers 

It's certainly turning into an opportunity for battery manufacturing for EVs in the UK. Might want to look into it as part of the PGRQS 

Nissan's CEO certainly thinks so:
“Brexit, which we thought is a risk … has become an opportunity for Nissan,”
As reported by that notoriously anti EU media outlet EURACTIV.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/technology-news/northumberland-site-secured-uks-first-ev-battery-gigafactory
https://amtepower.com/going-giga-how-the-uk-is-investing-in-supersized-battery-production/
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9046779/Electric-car-battery-giant-Britishvolt-plans-float.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-must-build-battery-gigafactories-to-save-electric-car-dreams-9tkszzjnb

Here's another British firm doing well, not in the jacket and boot repair sector: https://www.ilika.com/

[teestub]

Here's another British firm doing well, not in the jacket and boot repair sector: https://www.ilika.com/

No comment on this particular company but ‘disruptive’ really is the corporate bullshit bingo word du jour.

As I understand the factory scarpa resole is more of a full refurbishment compared to anything offered in the UK.

Mailing stuff to Europe in terms of carbon isn’t really an issue either is it?

[TobyD]

But at least we'll have ultra high power kettles and hoovers. And our freedom back. Not the freedom to travel. Or work. Or live. Or shop. Or export easily. But the important freedoms like the freedom to have fewer employment rights.

Tbh I'm more pissed than ever at brexiteers.

You missed out the freedom to catch a few more of the fish amost noone in Britain is willing to buy, no more of the ones they do, and the freedom to not sell them to anyone else now.
Welcome to the glorious Great British (shortly to become English) future with a 70 hour working week, no statutory holiday in which everything is more expensive, everyone's paid less unless you went to school with a member of the cabinet.

[tomtom]

What Tim said re scarpa repair.

Fixing the jacket - well it’s part of Patagonia’s ethos to fix things (often for free) so I’d like to try that first. Well would have.

If you want to follow the local ethos you flag up Pete - perhaps invest in a British gold mine rather than an Australian one next time eh?

👍😁 

[Johnny Brown]

As I understand the factory scarpa resole is more of a full refurbishment compared to anything offered in the UK.

Yeah, they go back on the original last, and they design the boots with resoling in mind. I've never owned a pair of their rockboots but I was very impressed when their boot designer described the resole process to me.

[tomtom]

As I understand the factory scarpa resole is more of a full refurbishment compared to anything offered in the UK.

Yeah, they go back on the original last, and they design the boots with resoling in mind. I've never owned a pair of their rockboots but I was very impressed when their boot designer described the resole process to me.

Heel needs a load of work - hence thinking of trying this option....