No more free trade between UK and EU from 2021 onward. Grmble...
Okay, most what I buy is still below the allowed amount, but still...
It would mean that if I'd buy an oracle card deck of let's say 24 Euros or more I could have custom's slapping an addition fee on it. Great...

People in Ireland are really panicking about it, since the UK is the main trade partner. And we have the tricky situation, that 6 counties in the north are occupied by the UK

I think it all depends on how vindictive the EU are going to be but since the EU is mostly France and Germany, that might be quite a lot .
You are right about the custom fees though. There are times when I've been charged additional custom charges (and 20% VAT on top of that) for importing DVD's from American sites and they can increase the price you end up paying by a third or even half again.

Yup, that's why I don't buy from the States if I can help it. If it's less than E22 I'm good.
I also know custom's fees are dependent on which way the wind blows or someone's hairday?
When I still had my webshop I did order wholesale from the US. It sometimes took forever for stuff to get through customs, and there didn't seem to be a % of what I'd paid. Meaning sometimes it was okayish, other times it was steep.
And back then you had to pay cash -they didn't have portable pin yet- and the exact amount of what you owed. Now that was handy as I didn't know what I had to pay until they knocked on the door.
But if I didn't pay they'd take it back with 'em. And no change of course. A-holes!!!

I've had it too when I bought a crystal skull privately from the US that wasn't cheap. Then they put customs and VAT on it? For almost the same amount I'd paid for the skull. I was effing livid.
Later on I realised this was because I'd used PayPal and this was a business account.
I only recently realised that and deleted it and started a new account, a private one.

All this is why I was always happy to buy from the UK :)
And I read that these days we also have to pay when buying from China. That is new. It was always considered a developing country that needed support. I guess China is deemed to be on their own two feet, haha.

It is a daft system as I doubt they put the charged VAT and costs in a pot to give to the Dutch shops that have allegedly missed out by me buying abroad.
It's government lining their pockets with it.

Yo brexit is tight! And I’m from California

I must admit that I've also noticed that it seems quite arbitrary how much, or even if, you're going to be charged. I don't know if the customs services are just paying more attention to the rules at times, or if it's some individual's decision.
As you said, if they are going to charge import duties, it would at least be nice if the money raised went to help local businesses but it all goes to central Government and they then spend it on whatever they want.

OK Boris it's about time you got a brand new FTE in place with Australia.

I guess we all best order whatever we really want/ need before the year is through. Considering delivery delays -and Christmas hustle being upon us- that would mean ordering NOW.

well at least your aren't part of the antichrist kingdom anymore...

I'm in Northern Ireland and I can tell you that nothing the doomsayers said would happen actually has. Life is normal, apart from Covid.

All the sabre rattling that's going on now is just news teams hyping up a story