It pays to question the rediculous

It was worth my questioning of DHL's unexpected invoice for import VAT on my tickets to the Singapore GP - if they'd only tried to charge me VAT on the nominal value of about £50 I would have begrudgingly paid up - but when they tried to charge me VAT on more than an extra £50 as the "cost of shipping outside the EU" I felt I was some how being done. I only paid ~£17 extra for courier delivery rather than surface mail - costing the non-EU portion at over £50 seams like attempted VAT fraud to me! The good thing to say for DHL is they where true to their auto-response to my email - they responded by mail, but not within the 7-10 working days stated, and they did back down without question - wonder if the fact I cc'd the VAT man had anything to do with that!