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Honestly, it took me all of 30 secs looking at the pics to work out it had been repainted (no fire select/safety lever markings for a kick off). In an ideal world I agree that it should have been mentioned in the listing that this was previously a two tone, caveat emptor still applies. You mean £662 plus VAT, shipping and duty.

I'm definitely Meal Team 6!

I have the TMC clone and for the money it's really good. It ONLY comes in small/medium type size so it's a bit small for me. The licenced Z-shot ones come in two sizes but cost more like £300. Still cheap compared to real ones!

For some reason I thought you were the guy that was looking at a £200 order! Yeah, that looks too low.

No, the "government charges" are your VAT and Duty. Those brokerage charges are steep, but it's one of the things UPS are known for. The fact that they've shown an exchange rate calculation at the bottom of the invoice suggests that the PLZ to GBP rate has shafted you a bit too. What did you buy? That will affect the duty rate.

This. All day long. @lukeB asked for an idea of cost, I made an educated guess based on what he has and how much they usually go for second hand. Is it expensive for airsoft? Absolutely. Is it expensive for a genuine second hand AVS? No, no it isn't. Honestly if it's in decent enough condition and someone really wanted it you could probably get more for it.

There's a free estimator here https://www.shippo.co.uk/faqs/what-duties-and-taxes-will-i-have-to-pay/ it doesn't include the carriers brokerage fees though so their estimate comes out at around £52 in duty and VAT.

What was in the order? The duty will be different according to what they've put on the CN22 form! If it's a gun then you're looking at 3.5% duty, plus 20% VAT (which is calculated on the item cost plus the shipping plus the duty), plus the UPS fee which will usually be around the £10-£13 mark. Probably looking at about £280 ish

https://ferroconcepts.com/collections/hardware/products/m-lok-qd-sling-mount The Pharaoh's head is the Ferro logo.

You pay TG the cost plus the shipping. You then pay the rest to the carrier.

The price on TG is ex-vat. You buy it, they ship it, you pay the carrier the VAT, duty and handling fee. Basically it used to be Cost price + Polish VAT + Shipping. Now it's Cost price + shipping + UK Import Duty + UK VAT + fees.

Here's a thought - do we know if the UK sellers that TWG supply might have asked them to not apply for UK VAT thereby placing the £140 minimum order into effect? That way they keep the UK sales and TWG get the wholesale without the hassle of applying for UK VAT registration (along with the fees it incurs).

Just had an email... Just spotted the posts above mine. As you were.

Nice but...they're Ferro Concepts.

Lovely shade of yellow, that!

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Innit.

I worked with a guy in China who had a Goldeneye crew jacket. Turns out he used to work for Phillips who supplied all the monitors for the control room and his job was to make sure they all got switched on at the start of filming then off again at the end of the day. And people wonder why it costs so much to make a film!

I have a pair of LK trousers in ATACS iX. Nice kit.

Yeah the taper is pretty obvious Seems it's just down to the size then. Bit odd that the cheap one goes in a bit but then stops.

Is the barrel painted or polished on the receiver end? The polished ones are tapered so a normal "TM spec" one won't fit. There's a fair amount of aftermarket barrels out there for G&P taper though.

Yeah, just tried that myself and got the same result. Seems they're just not accepting UK orders at the minute.

Of course you can. As long as you meet their minimum order limit which to the UK is currently £135.