Overseas delivery

Theres a pair of forks im really after on ebay just now,
but i just bought a wheel and some cranks for america and got hit with 70 quid tax all in.
Have any of you bought forks or something of a similar size/weight recently and did you get taxed for them?

Tax spoils all the good finds:(

i got easton carbon forks from taiwan, no tax
phil hubs and custom nitto stem from NYC, no tax

maybe i've been lucky

yeh or maybe i have been super unlucky:( haha
cheers for the info, I think ill probably go for them if the price is right.

i think if you confer with the seller to give you the item as a 'gift'.
There's loophole somewhere i believe ;) gift = no tax.

I had heard something like that before but wasnt sure what the deal was,
I'll asj him if he can,
Cheers!

Are they really simple forks? Like no friggin hydro or anything? Mike's [trampsparadise] coming to visit me in the States and if you bribed him with Beer he'd probably bring them back for you. You could write him and ask. If so you can have them delivered to me.

Thats a good thought, but they end tomorrow so I wouldnt have enough time to get it all sorted out probably.
Then theres the fact that i stay in glasgow so he would have to deliver them to me (and me the beer to him)
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