"Stimpy" wrote in message
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RJH wrote:

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

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.

...but if they do open it and find that the value of the goods is much in
excess of the declared value you'll be getting a metaphorical 3am knock on
the door. They don't take kindly to this ruse :-(


Coincidentally, I wanted a DVD - King of the Hill (anyone?!) - and could
only find it at a canadian site for £18.30. I asked them to mark the parcel
under £18 and they replied:

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To make the label for the items we have everything pretty much computerized.

For the weights we have to put it on machine and it stores the # in the
computer.

There is no way that we can change the weights.

Sorry!

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Quite what all this has to do with weight I'm not sure - fact remains they
wouldn't.

Rob