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Old 06-12-2007, 11:43 AM   #163
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
There is one choice, find someone on the forum (who lives in the USA) whom you feel you trust enough to buy a Reader for you and send it over. The person on the forum is probably not going to be out to make a profit.

At say $299 with 5% tax and $85 to ship, the reader would only cost $398.95. And that's without making any profit. And the person who purchased the reader would have the receipt and if it broke, you'd be able to send it back to the purchaser to send to Sony for warranty repair.

But again, you do take a risk that said person is not going to run away with your money. Of course if you want some recourse, have that person put a bid up on ebay for the reader and then buy it there and you will have some recourse just in case.
People will have to pay customs tax. It is about 25% in the UK?
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