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Re: International Shipping
GodWentPunk, if it's a US made guitar that you are buying, there won't be any import duty, as it's US made and returning to it's country of origin. Anything else and you will be charged import duties relative to the amount stated the guitar is worth when it is sent. The cheaper the guitar is declared at, the less the duties. It's tricky, as if it's insured, it's only insured for that lesser value, and if they open it up and see gold hardware, awesome graphic and abalone inlays everywhere, they might be hard pressed to believe it's only worth US$100, lol....
That being said, you only pay import duties on overseas items once. So if you sent your import guitar to Finland for specialist repair work, you can declare this and you won't need to pay, as the import duities were paid the first time it entered the US. Make sense?
Living in Australia I've paid various amounts to have guitars shipped over. Rhoads size cases were up to about $250 and I've had Strat sized ones vary from $180 to $220. The cheapest was the Bullseye RI from Guitarxpress, Lloyd got it over in record time (it beat everyone in the US who bought one) and all for $95!! I'd do that again anytime, that was a bargain.
GodWentPunk, if it's a US made guitar that you are buying, there won't be any import duty, as it's US made and returning to it's country of origin. Anything else and you will be charged import duties relative to the amount stated the guitar is worth when it is sent. The cheaper the guitar is declared at, the less the duties. It's tricky, as if it's insured, it's only insured for that lesser value, and if they open it up and see gold hardware, awesome graphic and abalone inlays everywhere, they might be hard pressed to believe it's only worth US$100, lol....
That being said, you only pay import duties on overseas items once. So if you sent your import guitar to Finland for specialist repair work, you can declare this and you won't need to pay, as the import duities were paid the first time it entered the US. Make sense?
Living in Australia I've paid various amounts to have guitars shipped over. Rhoads size cases were up to about $250 and I've had Strat sized ones vary from $180 to $220. The cheapest was the Bullseye RI from Guitarxpress, Lloyd got it over in record time (it beat everyone in the US who bought one) and all for $95!! I'd do that again anytime, that was a bargain.
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