On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 09:49:15AM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: OTOH, if I were to have bid on that auction, eBay have a scheme where they deal with the import duty and shipping to my home address for a fixed upfront cost. Whereas it's not at all obvious whether douglas.com even ships to non-businesses or the UK -- "Company Name" and "State" being required fields is not encouraging -- and in general shipping something costing more than about $20 from random US suppliers is risky and often outrageously expensive with further open-ended charged levied by the courier on delivery over and above what I already paid for shipping.