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Transmitter Frequency from Amercia

  • 28-01-2007 12:47AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys as you know im searching for a nitro rc i came across this from tower hobbies
    http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXPW87**&P=ML

    if the bro goes for one as well 2 of them including postage will come to €578
    what i want to know is there a problem with frequency differences between here and America
    the frequencies i can choose are

    channel A2 27.045
    channel A4 27.145
    channel A5 27.155
    channel A6 27.195

    If i go for them hope customs dont notice the huge package :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Don't worry;)
    Got the same truck from the same place(towerhobbies). Not a problem at all.
    €578/100x25=144.50+578=€722.50. Thats how much you will pay but thats nothing for 2 brilliant trucks;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭SLIM19198


    Plug wrote:
    Don't worry;)
    €578/100x25=144.50+578=€722.50. Thats how much you will pay but thats nothing for 2 brilliant trucks;)


    Just in case you didn't realize what he was adding up, its roughly 25% added on for import duty and VAT!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Exactly;)
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    For only $50 more I would rather get the 2.5R


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    @Plug did u get caught for duty?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Yeah anything you get worth over €100 you'll get caught, 25% tax:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    Plug wrote:
    Yeah anything you get worth over €100 you'll get caught, 25% tax:(

    It works on a random basis and has nothing to do with the value of the item. Also, like pointed out before, it's 21% VAT and about 3% customs & excise. An post will also slap on another €5 or €10 depending on the value.;)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,467 Mod ✭✭✭✭coolwings


    For 18 euros more you would have two x Carson Specters from Green Hobby & Model, Dublin in the January sale.
    Local supplier = 2000 miles nearer to where u live = nothing gets lost in the post
    No VAT
    No Duty
    No delay while customs value/hold it/assess charges.
    No extras.
    Somewhere you can actually physically bring it to when it doesn't start because your settings are off / you have tuned it wrongly, broke a part in a crash, etc.
    Plus (in those maintenance cases) you can ask face to face what went wrong and be shown how to avoid it happening again.
    1/8th size Specter = bigger, stronger, more power ..... than 1/10th models

    But if price was the more important they have Twistracers for less €€€ than Specter , Twistracer = 1/10th size .... same chassis as Stormracer which is popular ... only higher ground clearance. I assume there are Twistracers left in the sale but I am aware all the discounted Stormracers are sold out since 2 weeks ago.

    Only thing .... three days left in the sale ... it ends end of Jan. :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    do the customs notify you if they hold the item and want duty?
    i bought items before worth wellover €200 and didnt get caught guess theres always a first time.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,467 Mod ✭✭✭✭coolwings


    Yes you get a notification of duty and VAT due.

    It is relatively new. They always knew they were missing out on VAT due on ebay sales, so they geared up to examine a greatly increased number of incoming parcels. It intercepts drugs, arms and generates VAT tax and Customs Duty on more ordinary legal items imported via ebay and the likes.
    I assume that they target certain sellers for special attention, but last year personal stuff labelled "gift" began to be stopped as well.
    I understand that last year they collected 20 million plus in income from posrtal and courier based "personal" importers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    suspose its another way for them to line there pockets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,672 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    T-Maxx wrote:
    For only $50 more I would rather get the 2.5R

    €411.25 + a bit extra for more tax etc.

    He could have my sons hopped up one for a nice bit less than that.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭g5hn710m4xpdwy


    Or I could have your sons hopped up one for a bit less than that. if you give me a few weeks :D
    What price are you looking at? 350?:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,672 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Flunked wrote:
    Or I could have your sons hopped up one for a bit less than that. if you give me a few weeks :D
    What price are you looking at? 350?:p

    cmarr has first refusal of it.
    If he doesnt want it then it is yours ;)
    you offering 350 delivered :confused:

    Sent you a PM ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    do the customs notify you if they hold the item and want duty?
    i bought items before worth wellover €200 and didnt get caught guess theres always a first time.
    If you have to collect it at the post office you will pay the vat there(thats only if theres vat on it in the first place).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    so it would be held at my local postoffice so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    so it would be held at my local postoffice so.
    Only if your not at the house when the postman comes, he will leeve a slip in the letter box and you go collect it from the post office, it will show how much vat you will need to pay on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    cheers lad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    So your getting the T-maxx's then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    yeah looks like a t-maxx 2.5r is on its way soon :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭g5hn710m4xpdwy


    2 of them from tower? Noice;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    just about to buy 1 of them from towerhobbies and they discontinued them today :eek: so looks like i have to buy a t-maxx 3.3 :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭g5hn710m4xpdwy


    haha, looks like you do. noice truck;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    just bought a T-Maxx 3.3 from tower for €350 delivered :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,672 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    just bought a T-Maxx 3.3 from tower for €350 delivered :)

    Is that including or plus taxes here ?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Is that from model sport or tower?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    just bought a T-Maxx 3.3 from tower for €350 delivered :)

    You prolly mean €450 from Modelsport?;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    its from tower excluding duty hopeing i will sneak past.
    the bro purchased a revo 3.3.
    they should be here in a few weeks cant wait.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭stephenmarr


    its from tower excluding duty hopeing i will sneak past.
    the bro purchased a revo 3.3 in yellow.
    they should be here in a few weeks cant wait.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Sorry to burst your bubble but you WILL be caught in customs:(
    But with a T-maxx 3.3 and a revo 3.3(best 2 monster trucks of all time;)) who'll be complaining?:D


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