RSOV to stop shipping to UK

Hivemind187

According to the latest announcement from RSOV they are due to stop shipping to the UK due to the constraints of the VCR.

This, RSOV have assured, will only affect UK customers and not those outside of the UK - which means us.

Perhaps all the UK Airsofters would like to move to the Republic to play

Dave!

Shut up, don't jinx us!

odonnell

Well....the good thing about this is that it may add further spark to the upsurge in Airsoft in Eire.... never know, could be a good thing.

Boston

We will never have a bill like the VCR. The brits have a culture of survillence and information gathering about the domestic population which goes back centuries. The idea of a national database containingg information about law abiding citizens isn't new there, in fact its almost common place. The goverment here is not only too inept to set up and maintain such a database ( The IAA are hardly going to do it and retailers wont be trusted ) , they also lack the political will and money to waste. Additionally, we barely have a sex offenders register, if databases where set up I can think of numerous other groupings who would be more deserving of being monitored. The most I can see here is some form of background check before you're allowed join a club and that check carried out against the gardi database, I honestly can't see this restraints on imports coming in.

odonnell

i was about to half disagree with you on us brits and our policies of surveillance.... and then i read an article on BBC, calling for a national DNA database - no exclusions, calling for every British resident to have their DNA signature stored on file.

ho hum.

Boston

It's like I remember when thsoe two girls where killed by your man (huntly I think) and it was reveiled that while the local police had failed to keep track of some local sex offenders in the area they had details records of ever irish born person in the locality ( north and south ). It's only when you contrast how the amounth of info kep by the british goverment vs the irish goverment that you realise britian really going in a bad direction.

ambro25

Boston wrote:

they also lack <snip> money to waste.

I beg to differ on that one small point - they've amply demonstrated their aptitude to do just that

France has got nearly the entire population finger-printed by now (compulsory when obtaining new-style ID cards...which are compulsory themselves). Can't see a problem since it started.

Shiva

I emailed Keith late last night to let him know that the VCR Act didnt affect us with regard to buying airsoft guns, because Ireland is not part of the UK and not subject to their VCR act in that regard.

He was surprised - He thought we were part of the UK

In fact I've run into this with a lot of the Asian suppliers - they are under the impression that Ireland is a part of the UK, because they confuse us with Northern Ireland.

Don't be surprised if you run into similar confusion with eHobby, Redwolf, UN Company, WGC etc.....

If you do run into the same issue, make sure you explain clearly and politely that we're a separate country, not to be confused with Northern Ireland.

Gatling

does that mean they might review there prices to make it more appealing to a new market, ie us, or will they increase prices to make up for the losses from the uk market

Hivemind187

Gatling wrote:

does that mean they might review there prices to make it more appealing to a new market, ie us, or will they increase prices to make up for the losses from the uk market

That remains to be seen, however, considering that many of these sites supply Europe, the US and the Far East it is not unreasonable to assume a position of "no change".

kdouglas

i cant imagine there will be much change, kinda sucks for uk players though, they are quickly going to be stuck with uk based suppliers only and they're over-priced quite often

CrazyRabbit

kdouglas wrote:

i cant imagine there will be much change, kinda sucks for uk players though, they are quickly going to be stuck with uk based suppliers only and they're over-priced quite often

I imagine that it's going to have a large impact on the growth of Airsoft in the UK.

kdouglas

yea, indeed, no cheap chinese clones to start off with.