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Topic: Helpers for buying overseas from forum members
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 17, 2013 08:32 AM
This works best among close friends. The last few years before he died I did this with Tim Christian, an honored founding forum member from the UK.
What we did is if Tim sold an item in the US, sometimes he had the buyer pay me, so he had a stash of money here in the US. If I bought something from a UK seller with "UK Only" it would go to his address, he would pay for it and send it to me. I credited his account for this too. When he wanted something in the US with "US Only", I bought it for him and debited his account.
It worked even better when a film was being bought. The in-country guy would project it and let the other one know what he thought of it. I turned back a particularly bad Blackhawk "The Great Train Robbery" for him before it went international and a few weeks later we found him a really nice one. The upside is the in-country guy had a variety of films to watch, if only once!
It was also a lot of fun buying a big lot of films and splitting them up among each other.
There was a time when we figured out that K-40 in the US was roughly 1/2 the price he paid in England. We were hatching this mad scheme to buy him packages of 10 cartridges over here, but Tim became sick and we never pulled it off.
-as I said, this works best among close friends. There has to be a certain sense of trust between the people and the trust needs to be justified as well.
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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