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Originally Posted by Vlad
Ah, I think I see.
It's a UK charge that's been slapped on when it was imported and I had to pay it when it arrived at my door separate to the GS charge.
When I say "actual customs" I'm meaning the import charges like the VAT which ended up being 23GBP which isn't awful and as far as I know only applies when receiving an item from outside of the EU but for the Royail Mail charge, I'm actually not entirely sure what it's all about besides what seems to be a fee for making them handle the package and I don't know why it's so high.
I was looking it up and a few years back folk were talking about how it was an 8GBP charge put on to their imports (funnily enough calling it a con even at that) and then that seems to have increased to a 15GBP charge over time and now it looks like they've went even further up to 20GBP.
As for what you would have paid I don't know how the Australia customs charges are which might have ended up making it roughly the same as me but talking just about the cost of the item from GS that seems about right since in total with the international shipping it was 185USD.
Thanks very much though, I didn't expect it to be going for so high now especially considering you can/could buy the figure separately.
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Man the UK has changed a lot since I left, sounds like you will be getting charge to walk on the pavement next. Something wrong with it to me if I had bought the PPE for you and sent it would you still have to pay the press gang postman his coin? I got The Last of Us Survival Edition from GameStop was sent by UPS sent Friday turned up Monday UPS that was quick to just had to scratch me name all good. UPS maybe the default post for them to Australia first time I bought from GameStop. This game is addictive.