Any help with importing a keyboard?

[concept73]

Sorry if this is in the wrong arse of the forums, but seems lik e the right place as i cannot post in classifieds and i am looking for infomation at the moment!

Anyone had any experiance with importing keyboards?!
I live in the UK, and at the moment im getting a Poker 2, from a friend of mine Pexon.

however, i am also looking to get myself a hhkb 2, i see that Qtan has them on his ebay store, just wondering are there any other ways of going about it?

Any help is appreciated

[terran5992]

Qtan has a hhkb?

[concept73]

Qtan has a hhkb?

My mistake, i was looking at qtans page while looking at the hhkb
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/F-S-Happy-Hacking-Keyboard-Professional-2-PD-KB400B-HHKB-Black-Printed-Key-Free-/281152041941?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item4175f7b3d5#ht_2805wt_860

[terran5992]

Umm belive mechanicalkeyboards.com is selling it for 260 USD

Not too sure wheater it ships to the uk

[concept73]

Mechanicalkeyboards.com dident have them, however Elitekeyboards.com do! just sent them an email asking about their shipping!

[terran5992]

Oh my bad i was talking about elite keyboard

[ch_123]

Shipping to the UK for a single keyboard from Elitekeyboards is $50, and you'll probably pay VAT + some sort of import duty.

Myself, and others had keyboards shipped over from EK in the days before European distributors popped up, so it can be done

[longweight]

You will pay around £40 import duty.

[Obakemono]

You can proxy it from amazon japan too, it might save you some money in the total cost.

[concept73]

Thanks for the help guys, it does get pretty expencive pretty quickly :/

[terran5992]

Its a topre board

Expect to be paying lots of money

[longweight]

Your best bet is to find a second hand one in Europe or the US.

[terran5992]

Your best bet is to find a second hand one in Europe or the US.

Second hand hhkb are hard to come by

[Grim Fandango]

Be careful when shipping from the US. If you ship within EU countries there is no extra taxes. When you ship from the US it is likely that you will be charged taxes (even after paying US VAT) and an extra customs charge.

You are better off buying it through someone willing to buy it for you here on the forum, or buying it second hand in classifieds, then have it sent with a customs form specifying it as a gift. Usually I would not think this kind of "tax evasion" is a good thing. But were are talking about a product here that you can pretty much not buy without importing.

[concept73]

Be careful when shipping from the US. If you ship within EU countries there is no extra taxes. When you ship from the US it is likely that you will be charged taxes (even after paying US VAT) and an extra customs charge.

You are better off buying it through someone willing to buy it for you here on the forum, or buying it second hand in classifieds, then have it sent with a customs form specifying it as a gift. Usually I would not think this kind of "tax evasion" is a good thing. But were are talking about a product here that you can pretty much not buy without importing.

Yeah man, i had the same issue with my CASE LABS S3, they are a US only company and so had to import it, a heft $100 import tax did hurt quite a bit,

Idealy i would love to buy new and i can ask friends in the US if they would do that option, thanks for the heads up!