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reldridge,May 13 2009, 11:52 AM Wrote:Welcome to UPS!!!! :(

Never, ever, ever, ever ship UPS. If you are buying out of the USA, ship via USPS.
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Yeah, if you do a search we've all bitched about it on here, including myself. Personally I have them drop ship to the UPS depot in Niagara Falls NY and go pick it up myself; many companies in the US ship free within the US so the money you save in shipping will cover your gas to go pick it up, you pay no brokerage fee and you've got a 30% chance you get a decent border guard that will let you slide on the tax/duty.

Just did it last week when I bought a brand new Gibson SG.

Scorcher000,May 13 2009, 12:10 PM Wrote:I forgot to say ask them to put value extremely low and put as a gift!
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Just remember that the declared value is also the insured value; so if United Parcel Smashers breaks your item you get the declared value not what you paid.