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Jon Broderick
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Jon Broderick
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12/14/2008 10:09 pm
Originally Posted by: mck36cool review


what really suck though is that none US residents can't enter the giveaway...



The problem is customs/tariff/shipping.

You'd think that since we are all on the internet talking to each other we could also send each other low-cost tracked packages.

But instead when you go to ship something like a guitar out of the country, there are all kinds of customs regulations (different for each country) extra taxes, and the shipping is often either more expensive than the item shipped or untrackable.

So that's why the contests are US-only.


Originally we had wanted Ren in the U.K. to do the reviews, but just sending him the gear to review cost more than many interesting pieces of gear are worth.

Jon
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