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Posted by Peter Fairbrother on July 7, 2008, 6:28 pm
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>> Be careful of these direct from Hong Kong sales.
>> Read the current feedback, some is in other languages but the trend is
>> for customs to start checking these parcels.
>>
>> When you get hit with a VAT and duty bill plus no redress on faulty
>> goods it's a risk you have to take. Fine on a £2 laser pointer but on
>> precision gear I'd like to see what I'm buying.
>
> Thanks for the pointer though I was not about to purchase and used the link
> to demonstrate the full range.
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> I used the EBay negative feedback site to check the supplier I quoted.
> It seems folks are content with the collets but got caught by 'officialdom'
> which pushed up the cost.
> Also seems the supplier is not communicative.
>
> Henry
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>
Keep the price below £18 and there is no VAT - actually it's the £8 (PO)
or £10 (DHL) charge for collecting the VAT which gets you, not the VAT
itself.
There are two or three HK sellers, they seem communicative enough though
they don't reply to "it isn't here yet" comments until several weeks
have passed. You have to be patient.
Not the world's best quality, but everything I have bought has been
perfectly adequate - and the price is right.
-- Peter Fairbrother
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> just one thing to point out - although each closes down by up to 1mm - it a
> good idea at the outset to decide if you are 'imperial or metric' - it
> isn't
> true to say that a set will hold all cutting tools within the range of the
> set.
> If you look at the link below, you will see that the 14mm collet will close
> down to 13mm, but the next one down is a 12mm collet - so there isn't a
> collet to hold a 1/2" tool - ditto 1/4".
> So you might need to buy extra collets to fill in - or go one way or the
> other from the start!
>