Herrgh

You can't stop me, I'm doing it right now.

The noise you make when you get back to the safe zone.

I need some pointers on where to look for reasonably priced, reasonable quality plate carriers for our currently embryonic team. From my googling, it seems that the spectrum lies from cheap rebadged AliExpress tat to actual hardcore realsteel gear that costs minimum over £150-£200 (way beyond our needs). Anyone got any advice on any potential brands that sit between these two extremes? I seem to remember Condor might fit the bill, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of that about these days.

It's going back up, 191 this morning. Hopefully it'll stabilise a little bit around that rate. As long as the BOJ don't do anything crazy like raise interest rates 0.01% we should be good!

It's not about what they say, it's about making them post in the first place. Scammers won't be inclined to post at all, because they just want access to the classifieds, so any casual scammers will be instantly blocked. This would likely also frustrate any bots or any scammers using automated tools specifically tweaked to this forum's software (as there is now a step that requires human intervention).

We definitely need some sort of filter to stop immediate access to the classifieds. This could work. Alternatively go the SomethingAwful route and charge money for Account Registration. A mere £2.50, for example, would go a long way towards heading off scamming types, and defray some of AFUK's operating costs. But that comes with the disadvantages of putting off genuine casual potential users and needing to set up some way to handle money/personal info. So I like @Enid_Puceflange's idea.

I forgot that I'm on the mailing list for Wolf Armouries; just received a rare email from them announcing a restock of TM stuff, but this interesting tidbit was at the bottom of the email: "Have you ever wanted to own one of the UKs longest running dedicated Airsoft Shops? If so please contact us on [email protected] we have been running it for 25 years now and happy to pass it on to the next person ready to keep it going for the next 25. Only serious enquires please and you must be able to show proof of funds." I wonder how much a London-based airsoft shop goes for? And based on this thread, would a rebrand be in order?

Seller wants £2600(!) for all this. Far more likely to shift if s/he makes the effort to split it up into separate listings. But otherwise, nowhere near the amount of needed pictures to make this a safe buy. £2600 is a helluva lot of trust for 5 grainy pictures. My gut feeling is the seller is not an airsofter.

Heads up @SAW, most of your post is in black font, which is hard to read when a user is using the forums dark mode skin. I think if you remove all formatting this'll correct it for all forum skins.

Can someone advise a nice AceTech tracer which doesn't do the muzzle flash? (Or just give a general overview of the different models they do?) I'm debating if I should get a titchy one to keep the rifle as short as possible, or if I should buy one that can go inside this nice gemtech suppressor that I have.

Just chucking my own experiences here - UPS have finally delivered to me some EPMs from WGCShop, but the package was previously inexplicably stuck at the Import Scan Castle Donington, United Kingdom stage for ages, just going round and round continually getting import scanned. Turns out I needed to complete the dumb UPS-specific RIF declaration paperwork that has been previously mentioned aplenty in this thread. I believe this was triggered by the words "DESC: Airsoft toy parts" on the parcel label. But I would like to warn that UPS never contacted me about this. I had to go chasing them, which involved ringing them and getting an email address of a "Customs Clearance Advisor", who then forwarded me the paperwork to complete. I received two bits of paperwork: RIF DEC Aug22.doc Request for Clearance Instruction-HV.docx Original (sanitised) files are attached below for your convenience. The "RIF DEC" document I completed coincidentally exactly as @Tommikkasuggested - so this works: The "Request for Clearance Instruction" was asking all sorts of questions that I didn't have a clue about: So I just filled in what I could, which was the "Goods Description (plain language):" question, my typed "signature" (which defaulted to some Disneyesque font (lol)) and the date. For EPM mags, I put "Airsoft plastic magazine (NOT RIF)" as the goods description. I emphasise that I had to contact UPS (and them not contacting me) due to the revelation of this £14.60 daily warehousing fee on this document, which I would've been very cross if I had to pay because of their failure to get in touch. Maybe WGC didn't pass over my details, or maybe this charge is intended for big importers, not private individuals. I have no idea. But I would advise one move quickly to minimise the risk. Hopefully this will help others in the same boat. Request for Clearance Instruction-HV.docx RIF DEC Aug22.doc