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All this can only hasten the day when lossless downloads are the default platform for film score releases. Notes can be included as a pdf file.
That's the day I stop buying film scores...
but hey, I'm old.
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All this can only hasten the day when lossless downloads are the default platform for film score releases. Notes can be included as a pdf file.
That's the day I stop buying film scores...
but hey, I'm old.
Think of the money you'll save.....
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All this can only hasten the day when lossless downloads are the default platform for film score releases. Notes can be included as a pdf file.
And maybe they'll also make it so we can consume burgers in pill form and won't have to actually eat them anymore! Ah, the future!
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I've just received a card from the UK Royal Mail informing me that I need to pay fee of £12.03 on my copy of No Way Out.
That makes a total cost, CD+shipping +customs, for one double CD of nearly $60. It's getting silly.....
In fairness, I've had a good run but this hobby is now getting pretty expensive.
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I've just received a card from the UK Royal Mail informing me that I need to pay fee of £12.03 on my copy of No Way Out.
That makes a total cost, CD+shipping +customs, for one double CD of nearly $60. It's getting silly.....
In fairness, I've had a good run but this hobby is now getting pretty expensive.
Yep, just had to pay £15 to liberate Small Soldiers and Heathers ...and, wonderfully, despite me using the $10 voucher from Lukas's Indiegogo, meaning the total cost of the CDs went down to $25.96, Naxos of America helpfully put the full retail price of both CDs on the form. Cheers for that. Luckily Varese discs I want have been at a low ebb for a while.
I think once I've used the vouchers for the FSM discs - may as well, even with customs - that'll sadly be it for me with SAE too.
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This is a real issue with many non North American buyers being priced out of the market because of shipping/customs charges. Obviously, it's not the US retailer's fault but ultimately they have most to lose if overseas buyers look to buy from closer to home or just stop buying.
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Jun 29, 2018 - 12:00 PM
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andy b
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Well folks it’s the way of the world and all we can really blame is our respective governments who “grab the cash” anyway they can, but then we all seem to want more as citizens and it has to be paid for! Example I know the UK and Canada have similar health care systems, money has to come from someplace?
Duty has been around forever, just that Governments have woken up and seen a new income trail, due to the World Wide Web explosion, mail import has no doubt increased vastly from say 20+ years ago. What really gets me is the likes of Canada Post (where I live at present) or UPS, who add a further sum to the charge as the “broker fee” which goes straight into their pocket! No idea if that goes on with our fellow UK collectors, but sure Royal Mail are not doing this for nothing.
The really sad thing is that small business such as Intrada, SAE and others do need that income and sadly it will harm them, also it reduces the “blind buy” when we buyers are just not sure and despite all that effort by the label to bring the music to the market, we buyers can not justify the blind buy and the extra we would pay in duty and that leads to less “risk releases” by our beloved labels.
A sad catch 22 situation really.
But for now, enjoy what you can afford and what arrives.
Andy b
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Jun 29, 2018 - 1:17 PM
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Ian J.
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I may rethink my position, I may not.
I've looked at the charges for the UK according to the government's website
https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty
and it's
-- 20% VAT on anything over £15 commercial, £39 gifts.
-- Approx. 2.5% Customs Duty on gifts between £135 and £630 (with some variation, rates not on website)
-- Variable duty on any non-gift items above £135 (rates not on website)
Customs duty for compact discs has in the past been 3.5%, but I can't find an actual current rate specifically for compact discs.
There is also the £8 Royal Mail handling fee.
Now, all of this, on a package of say, five or six albums, could be workable, bearing in mind that the VAT would have to be paid if the items were bought in the UK.
What worries me far more is that with the full value declared on such a package, it becomes a target for theft. Adding an additional tracking charge to try and protect against that becomes way too much to pay, especially when in the UK at least, on goods over £20 from the likes of Amazon, there is often no postage at all, and certainly the value isn't marked on the outside of the package.
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