Hi John, As long as the sender packs them adequately to prevent the glass envelopes breaking, you shouldn't have any problems getting them shipped into the UK. Take a look on eBay to check the prices that you're being quoted are reasonable. There are no import restrictions to the UK which have ever affected me. However, if the package is given a customs value in excess of £18 there's a chance Royal Mail will spot it and charge you 20% VAT + their iniquitous £8 handling fee. Nothing to do with shipping, but as a general principle with dekatrons do be aware that the exotic high speed ones have a significant dud rate due to loss of their magic fill gases in storage. Stick to nice slow speed neon ones and you should be fine. Jon.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:59:27 AM UTC, electrofish wrote: > Hello > as a relatively new starter with nixie etc I want to buy some IN14s and > dekatrons. > I am based in the UK and have been looking at UK suppliers with only two > that I can find. > One is out of stock. > I have found some abroad in another EU country, which are much cheaper, > but I'm not sure on two things. > 1. Do they survive well travelling in the mail? > 2. Are there any import restrictions to the UK due to the content ie neon > etc? > > Sorry if they seem stupid questions. > Regards > John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/sTPBYEhf1GwJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
