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Argh. I've been after a good price on this but that busts the new £15 customs limit in the UK, which means an extra 20% plus an £8 Royal Mail fine. If anyone spots a similar European discount, please let me know!

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Argh. I've been after a good price on this but that busts the new £15 customs limit in the UK, which means an extra 20% plus an £8 Royal Mail fine. If anyone spots a similar European discount, please let me know!

Argh. I've been after a good price on this but that busts the new £15 customs limit in the UK, which means an extra 20% plus an £8 Royal Mail fine. If anyone spots a similar European discount, please let me know!

Oh, I hadn't noticed this new limit.

That effin' Chancellor has put me into a marginal tax rate of 40% 2013-14 and now this on top!!!!

MG

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Yes, so much for the Tories being the party of low taxes.

The irritation with this box is that it's just under the old limit of £18. Ah, well, it's bound to come down elsewhere.

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Grabbed that one as soon as I saw your post, thanks so much. Showing as "temporarily out of stock", so we'll see if it gets delivered.

I received a notice of shipment of the West Montgomery set this morning.

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Argh. I've been after a good price on this but that busts the new £15 customs limit in the UK, which means an extra 20% plus an £8 Royal Mail fine. If anyone spots a similar European discount, please let me know!

I'm sorry -- that's simply insane. Fortunately, I've almost never been dinged here in Canada (the trick seems to be to avoid UPS like the plague), and in general they don't seem to be worrying too much about packages from Europe or the U.S.

In general, the personal exemptions for cross-border shopping keep going up. However, the Conservatives refuse to lower the tariffs on goods imported for retail sale to average Canadians. It's almost as if they wanted to encourage more mail order business and cross-border shopping. What gives?

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Appreciate your sympathy. The previous limit of £18 was mad enough, but then they lowered it! Here I think it's more to do with shutting down the Jersey-based stores that were using the tax loophole to undercut the high street, but the high street is changing anyway. So the Jersey stores have gone but the high street still isn't what it used to be and probably never will be. Oh to live in Australia where the limit is something like AUS$1,000!

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Appreciate your sympathy. The previous limit of £18 was mad enough, but then they lowered it! Here I think it's more to do with shutting down the Jersey-based stores that were using the tax loophole to undercut the high street, but the high street is changing anyway. So the Jersey stores have gone but the high street still isn't what it used to be and probably never will be. Oh to live in Australia where the limit is something like AUS$1,000!

Anything to tax us to the hilt. ;)

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Appreciate your sympathy. The previous limit of £18 was mad enough, but then they lowered it! Here I think it's more to do with shutting down the Jersey-based stores that were using the tax loophole to undercut the high street, but the high street is changing anyway. So the Jersey stores have gone but the high street still isn't what it used to be and probably never will be. Oh to live in Australia where the limit is something like AUS$1,000!

Yep, we've got it pretty good here (apart from shipping costs)

I've been buying LPs & CDs internationally since the mid 80's & have only been hit with customs duty once (back in 86 & it was the Frank Zappa Old Masters Box 1)

I remember being slightly apprehensive when waiting for the Ellington RCA box but nothing eventuated

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Amazon is up to $53 for the Wes Montgomery now. Wonder if the $28 was a typo?

No, that was genuine - my copy shipped today (was on backorder) & at that price

I got notice yesterday that mine had shipped @ $28.10.

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Amazon is up to $53 for the Wes Montgomery now. Wonder if the $28 was a typo?

Sometimes you'll find great deals like that. I don't know if it's done intentionally for short periods of time or if it's a temporary glitch. About 4 years I got a new/sealed Bill Evans' Complete Fantasy Recordings box set for $27.00 delivered from Amazon, not a marketplace seller.

Whenever I'm interested in something, I put it on Amazon's wish list and check it regularly. It's surprising on how the price can fluctuate on some items.

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Amazon is up to $53 for the Wes Montgomery now. Wonder if the $28 was a typo?

Sometimes you'll find great deals like that. I don't know if it's done intentionally for short periods of time or if it's a temporary glitch. About 4 years I got a new/sealed Bill Evans' Complete Fantasy Recordings box set for $27.00 delivered from Amazon, not a marketplace seller.

Whenever I'm interested in something, I put it on Amazon's wish list and check it regularly. It's surprising on how the price can fluctuate on some items.

Both the things I put on my Amazon wish list skyrocketed to hundreds of pounds within days :(

MG

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Amazon is up to $53 for the Wes Montgomery now. Wonder if the $28 was a typo?

Sometimes you'll find great deals like that. I don't know if it's done intentionally for short periods of time or if it's a temporary glitch. About 4 years I got a new/sealed Bill Evans' Complete Fantasy Recordings box set for $27.00 delivered from Amazon, not a marketplace seller.

Whenever I'm interested in something, I put it on Amazon's wish list and check it regularly. It's surprising on how the price can fluctuate on some items.

Both the things I put on my Amazon wish list skyrocketed to hundreds of pounds within days :(

MG

Bummer! Keep watching and the price will probably come around again. I had a book I was looking for go as high as $175.00. I look now and it can be had for less than $30.00. The price fluctuations are crazy. Wish list price watching is a game of patience. Most of the stuff on mine is stuff I'm not going to need until somewhere down the road or stuff I could live without unless the price is right. Price watching can be pretty rewarding. I got the Oscar Peterson Mosaic box set from a marketplace seller for less than $20.00 delivered. Granted, it didn't have the box or booklet but for that price, it wasn't even remotely an issue. Looking at the set, it didn't appear it had been listened to much if at all.

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Amazon is up to $53 for the Wes Montgomery now. Wonder if the $28 was a typo?

No, that was genuine - my copy shipped today (was on backorder) & at that price

I got notice yesterday that mine had shipped @ $28.10.

Mine was delivered a few days ago. :)

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Wes box arrived today for me also, listened to two discs already. I added in "It's A Beautiful Day - Live at the Fillmore 1968" to get up to $35 for the free shipping. How's that for contrasting tastes?

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