Brits talkin about Brit stuff

[Ross Turner]

Steve,Any chance of the saw soon.
Thanks.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

guys im going to send HUSQVARNA an e-mail tommorow ,i want to know why saws in the States are half the UK price..have any of you seen the enormous price differance ??? saws overthere are half the UK price

 

[Big A]

From what I understand everything is cheaper over there, you could import from the States I suppose, what would freight and import duties add to the cost? I heard of someone who flew over to buy a Harley D, shipped it back, paid the duties and registration had a good holiday and still saved about £3000 off the asking price over here.

 

[teressa green]

warranty probs i should imagine ,lets face it we really do live in rip off britain ,we get shafted all ways ,cars ,fuel,the lot ,sometimes wonder why we put up with it ,vive la revolution ,

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

bring back wolfy 'citizen smith' he'll sort it

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

lets face it from what i see we pay more for trucks,feul,saws ,insurance than the boys in the states,i also noticed they can drive upto looks like a 10 tonner without a hgv or operators licence,and they bloody well earn more.than us.i have sent an e-mail to Husky about saw prices im waiting to hear back,,funny thing is how comes saws were so cheap at the show ,you telling me that an ms200t selling at £330 wasnt still makeing a fair profit??

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

what we should do someday is all us regular UK AS members is order several grands worth of kit from sherrill or from some other big US arb supplier,what ya reckon ??

 

[teressa green]

should be looked into ,import taxes etc ,would be interested ,check it out your end will do the same here ,compare notes asap

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

already have max import duty is 5%

 

[teressa green]

what would be the postage on a vermeer stump grinder ,first class? sounds good maybe a rope or 2 to start with ,see how the land lies ,maybe our american cousins couls shed some more light on this ,,,,,,,

 

[SteveBullman]

last time i looked into it you could hire half a container for about £2500

 

[SteveBullman]

wouldnt be hard to get enough people together to buy enough stuff to fill that up.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

id start with 5 saws and a vermeer 352 or even a tx50 stumpgrinder plus a load of kit from sherril..i bet if we orderd enough stuff sherrill would put the whole package together for us..shipping a big order to england can't be any differant than a coast to coast order for them

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

now im off to work

 

[SteveBullman]

me too....oh no wait.....i have no job doh

 

[jamie]

you can have my job just now, the boss has just bought a set of wellies and waders size 11....im scared....we seem to do all our water based jobs in the winter, last nov i spent the month in a river.

jamie

 

[SteveBullman]

nah you're alright, im just going to be a man of leisure for the next week at least.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

new signature were is it ..TESTING

 

[blue]

anyone picking up any storm work?

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

no you ??