Digital BW, The Print

Bob, i had the same problem. Just ask MIS to send the inks by normal
airmail. Carriers automatically declare everything to customs. The normal
post is much more hit and miss. In 3 years of buying inks and papers (and
ebay stuff) I have NEVER paid duties when the products have been despatched
this way. This was my first beef with IJM they would only ship through
courier - for valid reasons on their part - and duty on piezo inks was huge.
Any European distributor by the time they've paid duty etc will be charging
dollar to pound. Permajet rebrand VM and charge roughly 200 GBP (as opposed
to 60USD) in order to pay duties and then to resell to other firms and still
include everyone's mark-up. Perfectly reasonable, but much easier to buy
direct and wait a little longer IMO.

Julian

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Frost" <bobfrost@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OEM Ink Pricing & Econ 101


> Simon,
>
> Lyson is a UK company based in Stockport, Cheshire. Their Lyson inks are
> mainly marketed through Marrut (Marrut.co.uk). So no problems with
delivery
> or duty etc.
>
> MIS will send you inks, fairly quickly in my limited experience, but
whether
> you get charged VAT and import duty on items purchased in the USA seems to
> depend on the total cost of the package (which has to be declared by the
> supplier on the package). A \ufffd40 set of cartridges seems to escape duty,
but
> if you purchase several hundred pounds worth of stuff from the States, UPS
> or Fedex will later send you a bill for about 25% of the cost (as I've
just
> found out!). I haven't found a UK distributor for MIS inks yet - anyone
know
> if there is one?
>
> Bob Frost.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Whitehead" <s.whitehead@...>
> >
> > Now, I am in the UK and 3rd party 'quality' inks are not available on
the
> > high street.  We can't get Lyson or MIS all that easily and when we do
> find
> > them we are charged, at the very least, pound for dollar.
>
>
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