Importing a MESA board into UK from EU surplus in Portugal - taxes

No that snuck in under the radar.

Although my first set of Mesa cards was annoying in that regard. I was sent a variety of cards free of charge (and unexpectedly) as I was working on the Hostmot2 drivers. For some reason they were shipped with a stated value twice what they were really worth, and I ended up with a sizable VAT / customs / handling fee for some hardware that I hadn't even ordered. :-/

Many of them found their way in to projects in the meantime, so I am over it now.

That package should have been labelled professional samples or something like that.

JT

Engineering sample.
@Andy, nice, i paid more that the card costs for DHL !
Just goes to show that i live in a cr@ppy country for a lot of things, i was sure the post office will take it and loose it promptly, but they did not bother taking it so it saved them from having to loose it ! :)