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You pay 20% VAT on the goods + shipping plus ~5% (for bicycle components) duty on just the goods, plus £8-£15 to the delivery agent for collecting the tax. In the olden days, you'd quite often get small packages through the post uninspected, but ITTET they seem to be hitting you for import taxes on everything, and the thresholds for gifts and personal imports are now so low that pretty much nothing that's worth posting is exempt.
If you find some Omniums (Omnia?) for $150 shipped, you should assume the total you'll pay to actually get them in your hands will be about £125