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The info sent to me by Parcelforce said the thresholds differ: Gift - limit is GBP £40 Commercial - limit is GBP £18 Cheers Richard

So the conclusion on the multi-coloured Johnny Hampton seems to be that is does not exist. The only reference to this copy is Joe's post on Soulful Detroit I quoted above. I have emailed Joe about this and sent him this the link to this thread. Watch this space Cheers Richard

Kung Fu is well and truly alive Check my avatar (weird what you find when using the search facility - I know it's an old thread but I couldn't leave it) Richard

As the topic starter I take your point. That said I have received a lot of good advice from this thread and I am very probably going to take the hit and pay the fees. On picking which topics to discuss on SS I suppose the same could be said for threads about drugs, stealing cars to go to allnighters, selling and buying counterfeits. Dunno - are they, and do they? Cheers Richard

And I had said: In any case, the test is how your post came across to people reading it - regardless of your intent in writing it. Whether inadvertently insensitive, or deliberately provocative the outcome was the same. No point in you splitting hairs about it now. Richard

How about here? Please don't say you only said "sound like ..." rather than "are a bunch of petty criminals ..." and think that makes it a different post. Richard

Thanks for all the advice guys - much appreciated I'm going to sleep on it and decide what to do in the morning Cheers Richard

Sorry - didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest of controversy Thanks for the positive comments guys. Now I have a dilemma. The seller has agreed to take the item back and re-post it - but uninsured. The warnings about the item going missing or taking ages are scary. Think I might ask them to do a 3rd party insurer like Bob suggested. For those interested the customs fees were in excess of 25% of the price I paid. Cheers Richard

Thanks for the advice/comments guys. What I don't understand is why the seller - if he was playing it by the book - put it down as a 'gift' on the customs declaration. It was not a gift, it was merchandise from an eBay auction. I guessed he had done that because he thought it would not then attract charges - can't see any other reason. Whatever the situation, he incorrectly described the item being purchased/shipped - which seems a bit unusual - and it was the 'gift' tag which seemed to get customs onto it. I'm waiting to hear back - fingers crossed - its USD $270 after all for f***s sake Cheers Richard

Thanks for the advice guys. Have emailed the seller asking if he will accept it back and re-ship it with a value of USD $10 or less. Fingers crossed. Cheers Richard

Hi everyone I would be grateful for some advice please before contacting the seller. I purchased a rare item on eBay and have been waiting for it to arrive from the US. Today I got a letter from Parcelforce specifying a total of £166.62 customs and import VAT charges I spoke to them and they told me the seller had declared the total value of the item and also ticked 'gift' on the customs declaration. I was told that the ticking of 'gift' itself would have been enough for customs to pick up on this (they said it was actually worse than ticking merchandise/commercial/business item). I have no opportunity to negotiate on charges now that this has been ticked as 'gift' - if another option had been ticked I may have. I am planning to contact the seller asking them to take the item back and then to re-ship it (at their own cost) with a value of around USD $10 and ticked as 'gift' or 'merchandise'. I hope they agree. Any tips on how to deal with this please and/on what exactly I should say and ask them to put on the parcel? I think the 'gift' limit is GBP £40 and for commercial items it is GBP £18. First time this has happened with a record from the US in over 30 years of collecting Cheers Richard

7-9 pm tonight - so on air now! Cheers Richard

Can't remember how many to be honest Chalky. But I think it was a handful (or a couple of handfuls at most - unless the seller was or has been very smart ) - rather than a shed load like the main guy. I know some people seem to forensically track the numbers of discs that appear after 'big finds'. I don't have the time or the patience for that. A nice record to have in a Northern/Detroit collection IMO - but no longer a big money item as you say. Can't go wrong for around 100 quid though IMO - which is what it seemed to bottom out at. Cheers Richard

Not the same seller that had the big load of these Chalky - but this guy did have a few of them before Cheers Richard

Still looking for a decent copy please PM me if you can help out. Cheers Richard

Hi everyone Looking for J J Barnes - Real Humdinger on Reo out of Canada please Just PM me Cheers Richard

Hi everyone I collect the Canadian Ric-Tics on the dark red label with silver lettering. Please just PM me if you can help me out. Cheers Richard

There's been a bit of discussion in the past on here about the price of Clara Hardy - I Dream Of You (Tuna) with the big find and then speculation that supplies had apparently dried up. Copies were regularly going for down to around 100 quid. I remember seeing one go on here at £95. Interesting that a copy went on eBay this week (near mint) at £250 - from a seller that has had a few in the past Cheers Richard

Thank you all for the info Cheers Richard

Thanks Bob Anyone able to hazard a guess at the release date please? Sounds like it's from the later part of the 60s, or even perhaps even after the turn of the decade. I haven't spotted a connection with any other labels (e.g. using the same address). Cheers Richard

Anyone got any info please? Cheers Richard

Great record this - proper Northern - and a decent flip too "Everybody Can't Be Pretty" Cheers Richard

Sure was Joan - like old times - and the class act we know Dean and the crew deliver Northern Soul plus a good craic - a wicked combination as always Cheers Richard

Would be nice on a WDJ that one Cheers Richard

I have a demo on blue Tuba and a WDJ on Volt as per the attached scan Is this the lightning or non-lightning design Cheers Richard