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Originally Posted by peetbee
This has been covered in the past, but I can't find the old topic!
It roughly boils down to:
1) VAT gets applied in the UK
2) Import duties - gets applied to everything over approx £15 value regardless of how you bought it
3) UK distributors having to cover their costs - this can be advertising, sponsoring drivers, paying 1 & 2, replacing faulty/missing items, etc, etc
4) shipping costs
plus probably other costs too
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But surely the USA has all these same costs with the only one perhaps being significantly different from ours being the level of the tax enquivalent to our VAT.
This isnt a UK retail bashing session, I think the vast majority of RC sellers we have in the UK are fantastic.
But it is aimed at bashing the system (by system I mean those who set the rules, not the sellers) a bit as I am yet to see a valid reason why we would have to pay £100 more for an identical kit than what they pay in the USA?
For the record, there is one particular UK based retailer who will be getting the sale for my next purchase as the level of customer service offered is out of the ordinary and so they deserve my support, even if it does leave me out of pocket by comparison.
So this is definately not an attack on our guys who do a great job, just me having a moan that we are once again getting screwed over by those in power, and looking for answers to justify it. As yet, I havent seen an explanation which suitably justifies the £100 price difference between UK and USA.... 