[Gllug] OT: Paying for stuff - Was: So no one has opinions about ISPs?

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:13:26PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 16:39 +0100, Alex Crow wrote:
> > Well, you could I suppose fly to the US/Japan/Taiwan and buy a fair pile
> > of stuff and hope the customs don't notice (they mostly dont't seem to
> > know what the stuff is on the X-ray machine - just say it's computer kit
> > going for repair and they let it through). It worked for me when the
> > "Coppermine" processors came out - stayed a week in LA with my uncle,
> > came back with a CPU, mobo and RAM that would have cost me nearly £500
> > in the UK. US price was about $350. Rate at the time was about 1.5.
> 
> Yeah but I bet your flight and expenses cost more than you saved. As an
> individual I only ever import little things anyway.

Well of course, but if you're going there already ... :-)

I bought a Mac Mini back from the US last time I was there ($800 = UKP400),
when Red Hat were paying for the trip.

Rich.

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