Re: Import ban on Eat the Music

[uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel)]

> There are certainly laws against parallel imports to the US, though
> they're rarely enforced.  Given the broad price difference between CDs
> in the US and UK, I'd be surprised if there *weren't* similar laws in
> the UK.

I don't know about the UK, but German CD prices are similar to the UK ones,
and I don't think that there is an anti-import-law. You just have to pay
customs and VAT and packaging and postage. Customs and VAT are almost never
an issue when you send less than let's say 5 or 7 discs. P&p gets cheaper
if you send more discs. Nevertheless both make the price advantage in
imported discs much smaller. In fact they usually are much more expensive,
at least if specially ordered.

Bye,

Uli