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Err... I'm look to purchase a monitor[1] from the states.
Any pit falls on such an exercise? Taxes shipping etc.


[1] HP L1955 $490 [2]
[2] Unless anyone can find one cheaper?

 

Import duties and VAT even on second hand goods



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What if it's broken during shipping?

 

You'd need to check that the warranty is good internationally and
expect to pay the best part of 20% on top for VAT and duty plus any
brokerage fees charged by the shipper.

What's so special that it has to be that monitor?

 

Hmm 20% etc. is not so fun.

I've settled on that one 'cus I have all HP kit, I like the 19" with
the *very* slim bezel which is good in respect of space etc. It also
has everything I want from a monitor.

 

Ah, fair enough. I have one of these
<http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sn...y_id=211&first=true&page=productlisting.aspx>
(amongst others) but then my kit is all Dell. A good monitor at pretty
much the same price as your ebay one. Just swap the badges

 

Or for 363 they have a 20" widescreen dell at the mo.
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They're available brand new from CHF 676.30 over here, which is about
£290 or $US530 at current exchange rates.

Of course, there'd be some shipping on top, and _theoretically_ one
would have to pay duty on it, either UK if sent from here, or French
if I were to take it across the border.

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Hah..swapping badges reminds of how I ended up with the last one.

At work, moving the LCD to another floor, and I had hold of it by the
stand; not knowing that it was one of those detachable one!

Stood at the top of the stairs and suddenly it went <click, whoosh,
clack clack clack!> down the stairs!

Still, after the expected looks of horror, it still worked, but was a
bit dented. So I had that one.

I like the Dell, but you know...'when in Rome...'

 

I do like the idea of a big one, but I just couldn't fit it in at the
mo.

 

Hmm, it's all beginning to look complicated now.

 

Not _so_ complicated. I could order one now, get it delivered to work,
then when you're over next month I'm sure we could get it across
duty-free somehow ;-) Then we'd have to send it from France, of
course.

Oh, and the cheapest I've found now was 662, + 18 shipping (in CH), so
a total of chf680, plus whatever the French post office charges for
shipping to the UK.

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I might have a idea. A friend has a son he visits in Geneva. I'll
find out when he's driving out there next.

 

It'll be 110V?

 

The cheapest I found was the first one on:
http://www.preissuchmaschine.ch/product_352644.html

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I have the 24" version......it's ummm...big, at 1920x1200.

 

I think the are auto switching.

TATS

 

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do you have a 110 volts supply or does it take 240 happily?

 

Higgins not @ Work scribbled:

You can buy the Dell 2005 20" w/s TFT monitor at the moment at 30% off,
approx £350.

Absolute bargain