All of the above are surely excellent reasons NOT to bother buying from the states!! Yes, before you all say, I know I am a UK based shop who is bound to say that, but if I could ask Ash how much he actually paid???
Ash, you said it was a Mini-T right, well there are two versions PRO and RTR, (not sure which one you got) but you say there is £22 VAT and duty to pay. Well the PRO version here in the UK is only £79.95 (well it is with us anyway) so by the time you pay your excess, did it cost "considerably" less than £58 then? Since if it didnt then it is dearer than here in the UK, which incidently is IN STOCK, only takes one day to arrive to you and is easier to sort out than the samll amount of grief you have experienced.....
My point is simple, in "most" cases, it is not cheaper, it is slower, it is more grief and more problematic ordering from overseas, yet people still continue to do it and then moan when the UK shops close down or are not very helpful to a customer who has brought all his major purchases from elsewhere. Put yourselves in the shops shoes.
Yes I agree, you can "cheat" the system and avoid duty etc, but we cant at the shops when we buy from a UK distributor and to be fair (as already pointed out) it is illegal and a case of fraud to do so!!
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