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Originally posted by a_punker
I'm off to test it in the hillsi got a british army machete to show it off against
I'm very interested - please post the results when you are finished.
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I'm very interested - please post the results when you are finished.
We'll see if he comes back carrying on a conversation with it - nah, usually takes half a dozen for that to start happening>> Rusty
If it answers we have a problem.
I talk to myself a lot...talk to a lizard....maybe a bird.
to God..sometimes...wondering if He's eavesdropping...but I haven't yet thought of addressing a knife, rock or a tree. Now, TV's and Vacumn Cleaners, I'll talk to them. In about the same way, too:
"You Son Of A...."
My Khukuri's are alive. Everyone knows that. But talking to one? Why, that's insane.
munk
If it answers we have a problem.
I talk to myself a lot...talk to a lizard....maybe a bird.
to God..sometimes...wondering if He's eavesdropping...but I haven't yet thought of addressing a knife, rock or a tree. Now, TV's and Vacumn Cleaners, I'll talk to them. In about the same way, too:
"You Son Of A...."
My Khukuri's are alive. Everyone knows that. But talking to one? Why, that's insane.
munk
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a_punker,
Your question in your first post never got answered. Bill Martino ships the khuks from America. When we receive one, in America, there is no other cost.
The khuk usually arrives within 24 to 48 hours of when we order from him. I have bought quite a few and every one has arrived in perfect condition. Even the blems.
Uncle Bill even pays the shipping fee which is very unusual. Most sellers require the buyer to pay shipping.
Sorry that you have to pay all those fees. That seems wrong to me.
I have never had to pay extra for items I have ordered internationally. These come marked as "gifts" and there is no tax there or other cost either.
Maybe I just have been lucky.
Best regards
Bill
Your question in your first post never got answered. Bill Martino ships the khuks from America. When we receive one, in America, there is no other cost.
The khuk usually arrives within 24 to 48 hours of when we order from him. I have bought quite a few and every one has arrived in perfect condition. Even the blems.
Uncle Bill even pays the shipping fee which is very unusual. Most sellers require the buyer to pay shipping.
Sorry that you have to pay all those fees. That seems wrong to me.
I have never had to pay extra for items I have ordered internationally. These come marked as "gifts" and there is no tax there or other cost either.
Maybe I just have been lucky.
Best regards
Bill
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I've got back from that test. Annoyed we forgot a hatchet to include in the test 
I'll write the report when i have a little more time....and the blisters on my palm (oo err) heal!!
Bill Marsh....yeah something like a single khuk could easily be wrapped up in nice paper and labelled 'gift' cos then customs don't open it and have aplay....and you don't include an invoice for them to calculate sales tax.
What i meant about the paying duty in the US came from the delivery guy who handed me the package after i paid him on the doorstep.
He said there are 2 ways of paying for the customs thing:
1. just post it from the foreign country and when it gets to yours the customs officials charge sales tax (17.5% - evry manufactured item purchased is ellegible) and import duty. The postal service may charge you an extra fee if they pay these for you when they collect it for delivery.
2. when posting from the foreign country - US - the sender can pay US sales tax (%?) and export duty. The local postal service just collect it and deliver. If the US sales tax is less, then the non-US customer would have to pay less.
Of course Customs don't look at evry package - but in the UK they are cracking down and checking more and more
I'll write the report when i have a little more time....and the blisters on my palm (oo err) heal!!
Bill Marsh....yeah something like a single khuk could easily be wrapped up in nice paper and labelled 'gift' cos then customs don't open it and have aplay....and you don't include an invoice for them to calculate sales tax.
What i meant about the paying duty in the US came from the delivery guy who handed me the package after i paid him on the doorstep.
He said there are 2 ways of paying for the customs thing:
1. just post it from the foreign country and when it gets to yours the customs officials charge sales tax (17.5% - evry manufactured item purchased is ellegible) and import duty. The postal service may charge you an extra fee if they pay these for you when they collect it for delivery.
2. when posting from the foreign country - US - the sender can pay US sales tax (%?) and export duty. The local postal service just collect it and deliver. If the US sales tax is less, then the non-US customer would have to pay less.
Of course Customs don't look at evry package - but in the UK they are cracking down and checking more and more
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a_punker,
Sales tax here is a matter of the indivudual state. Not the Federal government.
If I buy something in the state where I live, Georgia, I pay 7% of the retail cost. This tax is only charged if a retailer sells to a customer.
If an individual sells to another individual, there is no tax. If I buy from a retailer in another state, or another country, and I do so by mail, there is no sales tax.
Therefore when I buy from Bill Martino with HI in the State of Nevada by mail or over the internet, and I live in Georgia, I do not pay any tax.
If I travel to Nevada and buy there, from HI, I would have to pay sales tax.
I expect that this situation may change do to internet sales traffic because so many interstate sales are going untaxed.
As far as I know, the maximum sales tax is 12% in any state.
Not trying to knock how another country does taxation, just trying to explain how it is here.
Best Regards
Bill Marsh
Sales tax here is a matter of the indivudual state. Not the Federal government.
If I buy something in the state where I live, Georgia, I pay 7% of the retail cost. This tax is only charged if a retailer sells to a customer.
If an individual sells to another individual, there is no tax. If I buy from a retailer in another state, or another country, and I do so by mail, there is no sales tax.
Therefore when I buy from Bill Martino with HI in the State of Nevada by mail or over the internet, and I live in Georgia, I do not pay any tax.
If I travel to Nevada and buy there, from HI, I would have to pay sales tax.
I expect that this situation may change do to internet sales traffic because so many interstate sales are going untaxed.
As far as I know, the maximum sales tax is 12% in any state.
Not trying to knock how another country does taxation, just trying to explain how it is here.
Best Regards
Bill Marsh
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Up to 7%? When I left Georgia it was at 6%. What a shame. Anything to show for it (the increase, that is)? ...other than more folks at the Lotto lines...
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I remember when almost no states had sales tax. Don't tell me the good old days are just the dreams of the ancients.
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don't be daft - i'm not offended
It seems like you've got a good deal in the US with mail order and internet sales being so easy
I guess it started that way because the country is so big - i mean GB is only the size of CO! When British citizens are abroad we are supposed to pay no tax on anything we buy (manufacured goods), then declare it on re entry to the UK and pay the 17.5%, and import duty too!
I'd much rather pay 6% tax and then duty
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a_punker
Yeah, I took a 3 week vacation in Britain, got to see almost all of it in that time: Wales, Scotland, Bath, Loch Eil, Loch Ness, Highlands, Stonehenge, Canterbury, Westminster, London(for a week), Kent, Edinburgh, Leeds, Stratford-Upon-Avon, etc!. Must've seen a dozen good armouries, and a score of really good castles. But I miss the real beer the most.
Loved it! British folk are the 2nd most polite city folk I've met (Icelanders top the list), London was damn clean for a city that old and big (xcept for the diesel fumes--not used to that!)
I contrast, it has taken me 20 years to see 46 of the 50 states in the U.S...only Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Texas left.
Keith
Yeah, I took a 3 week vacation in Britain, got to see almost all of it in that time: Wales, Scotland, Bath, Loch Eil, Loch Ness, Highlands, Stonehenge, Canterbury, Westminster, London(for a week), Kent, Edinburgh, Leeds, Stratford-Upon-Avon, etc!. Must've seen a dozen good armouries, and a score of really good castles. But I miss the real beer the most.
Loved it! British folk are the 2nd most polite city folk I've met (Icelanders top the list), London was damn clean for a city that old and big (xcept for the diesel fumes--not used to that!)
I contrast, it has taken me 20 years to see 46 of the 50 states in the U.S...only Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Texas left.
Keith