[Lionheart]

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one of the reasons I won't use bbts or toywiz anymore is that they are not customs friendly and see the UK as an excuse to scalp us further on the shipping.

They use Priority mail, which comes with tracking and insurance... and a massive price hike! Because Priority is shipped courier, it's much much more likely to get opened at customs and end up with import fees. Also, anything large has to be shipped Priority, so it's the same thing again.

Loving the love from fellow Arkers here and two thumbs up to Shockwave for his generous offers. Things like the Sentinels / Galactus / Gigantic Battles never actually get released over here - only specialist stores get them (with a large markup). I think it's just one of those things where if you can afford it you have to pay the shipping and swallow the import duty. It's just damned expensive. However... if someone writes a value of less than the chargeable VAT price you won't get stung for duty even if it gets stopped at customs, but many sellers don't do that. Which, if they only have 1 of the item - I can understand, but if they have more I don't see that it makes a difference. As long as they agree with the person buying it that they'll only get X amount back if the item goes missing - which, with Priority - it shouldn't.