On Jul 10, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Lord Groundhog wrote:
> ~~~ On 2008/07/10 09:54, Kate Case at kate.case@gmail.com wrote ~~~
>
>> Customs charge is nothing to do with the retailer, so you can't blame
>> them for that.
>>
>
> You're right about that Kate. My uncle sent a walking stick he'd
> carved for
> my birthday, to me here in the UK. Costing me nothing and clearly
> marked as
> a gift, the British government nevertheless decided that it needed
> to be
> taxed with hefty import duties. I was told I either could pay, or I
> couldn't have it.
>
> I swear these vultures would tax the spit in my mouth if I didn't
> swallow it
> too fast for them to measure it.
Petty bureaucrats are the same the world over apparently...
I have never tried a rebate deal with Other World, so I cannot
comment on that. Usually rebates are manufacturers offers though
aren't they?
I have bought 10's of thousand of dollars (us) worth of parts for
macs and the only issue I ever had was with a laptop battery that
died 1 month out of warranty, which wasn't really OWCs fault. Still
it was galling as these things aren't cheap.
Marty
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