Post #938 by theandrewssister on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 3:44 AM

Ouch!! Though broke as ever, I succumbed to greed and ordered one of these shirts for my other half, Not Particularly Tiki Lawrence. OK -- the price plus the postage to the UK was appalling in US terms but we're so used to being overcharged for everything over here that US$80 seemed OK... until the shirt turned up this morning, with an extra US$56 charge for import, excise, VAT and Parcelforce clearance.

Trader Woody, Tiki Chris -- did you get stung like this when you ordered your Sheckies? The cheery postman told me that mail from the US was notorious for getting charges like this whacked on by the bloodsucking leeches at our end. He also said that if the senders had lied and declared it as "documents" it would have been fine.

What I object to the most is that the Parcelforce charge of $20 is an administration charge -- for having to charge me the other monies! They needn't have bothered on my account...

AND the shirt, which looked a cool kind of petrol blue on the website, is a boring-as-hell grey.

BOOOOO!!!!!! Oh well -- my own stupidity, I suppose. Lawrence must NEVER KNOW how much it cost...