"Suburbanambient" wrote in message
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Yes, I bought a shure M97, not the best possible price in the US, got
gouged
by customs like you and still managed to save about 45% off the best UK
price. Can be worth a try, depends on how helpful the US supplier is as
well. Mine was http://www.canterburyrecords.com/ws/shure/shure.html
but a copuple of the other US sellers were not able to help
Thanks for sharing!

Cheers

D

What you can do is ask them to write on the pack that customs see 'Value:
£18'. It's highly unlikely customs would open the package. Insurance would
be a problem though. One supplier actually did this for me without asking
for an OC9 I bought 10 years ago. This time they did the 'decent thing' -
frankly I didn't have the nerve to ask them to mark the price down!

Rob