If you are only looking at top spec cells buying them in the US you are looking at around £37 per pack - a lot cheaper than the UK. Then add postage costs to that, being generous say £3 per pack if you are buying several. Then it gets hit by duty on the £37 - makes it £3, then VAT on the whole lot including your postage costs brings the price up to £49, so not much cheaper than the big name brands but more expensive than most of the smaller battery suppliers which use exactly the same cells.
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Originally Posted by bigred5765
shops are having a hard time not because of people importing them selfs but because the big suppliers (no names mentioned) are to bloody greedy to sell on at a good price so the shops can compete,quick example you can buy a Schumacher touring car from the states which is made in the UK, at 2/3rds the price u can get it here in the UK
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I'm also curious to know why I can buy an Mtroniks IP6 from Hong Kong for half the price I can buy it in the UK, considering it would have been transported to the other side of the world and back. Talking to my local shopkeeper he would actually sell at a loss at those prices.