Can anyone recommend a US etail business from which to buy, for example, a Leupold Scope. As the exchange rate is looking good, I wondered if it would be cheaper to import, or should I go to Sportsman or opticswarehouse.
Can anyone recommend a US etail business from which to buy, for example, a Leupold Scope. As the exchange rate is looking good, I wondered if it would be cheaper to import, or should I go to Sportsman or opticswarehouse.
Been looking at a site called binoculars.com
Not sure how they compare price wise (other than the prices seem to be the same number in $ as we pay in £!), but they do include a shipping calculator in their checkout for the UK. Interestingly if you go through to checkout, it will quote you a much lower s&h charge than if you click on the blue 'shipping calculator' button.
HTH, Phil
Had 2 PMs from 2 different people recommending smartgunner.com as well.
$380 seems to be the US price for a FX-III / M8 6x42
which is £200 - plus carriage and VAT (if I get caught)
These are £280 from opticswarehouse, and £285 from Sportsman
Go to the sportsman then Shaun new scope and a nice cup of tea with keith! wish I still lived relatively close.
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Anyone tried these people :
http://stores.************/D-R-Sport...United-Kingdom
replace the *s with a famous auction site
Last edited by Farmerpalmer; 07-01-2007 at 05:46 PM.
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yes. excellent
brought a bushnell elite 3200 10x40 from them about 18 months ago
and a bushnell lrf. both arrived in just 3 days with standard 3-5 day fedex
delivery. had to pay a small duty charge on them, as fedex pay the duty for you and then you re,imburse fed ex the amount. this is via a letter which you receive about a week later both were only about 20 quid if i remeber right.
even after i paid the duty both were still around fifty quid cheaper than
over here.and the exchange rate was lower than it is now
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When shipping from the states, its worth asking the shop if they would mark the item as a gift, or commercial sample.
That way you can avoid paying the import duty, some will some wont, its worth a try.
Must say, given present exchange rates I'm getting tempted to buy from dnrsports as they have free shipping as well!
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You would be better off asking it to be shipped as a 'Warrantee Return', I've had several and all came through no problem.
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1) Surly and obtuse customer service.
2) Put my order on hold (without notifying me) because they were going to 'review their export policy'
3) Decided they would not export a B&L Elite 4200 because it was against their new, but secret, export policy (again I had to prise this info out of them)
4) Credited my credit card refund to someoe else's account - something they only owned up to after a couple more weeks.
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Just got a Leupold VXL from D&R. Ordered it through the UK site. No problems at all. Took about 10 days.