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Old 09-02-2011, 06:58 PM
Jamie9 Jamie9 is offline
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I bought a used Lowden a few years ago from Dave's Guitars in Wisconsin. It was a good deal and the postage was only $200. The shop were excellent in every way. It turned up at customs in Australia less than a week later. Then the process really slowed down and the good deal got way more expensive than I expected. Admittedly the exchange rate is good at the moment but I have noticed that guitar prices here especially on Ebay are really starting to fall in line with US. prices.
I'm in the repair business and regularly see peoples nightmare imports, paying out a lot of money for an instrument that arrives really smashed up with inadequate insurance or no insurance. If I was doing it I'd only buy from a bricks and mortar shop who ship internationally on a regular basis and have the goods insured for the total cost.
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