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What a rip-off...
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Antwerpen, Belgium
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Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 03:27 AM UTC
Hm, and I thought that kits were expensive in Belgium... turns out we are on cheap side of the scale. But... now that the $ is low, the US starts to become interesting even with shipping included.


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And for us continental Europeans who don´t have the GBP symbol on the keyboard, how do I create that???


Buy a Belgian keyboard... ok, it's azerty but it has $,£ and € symbols on it and lots more you wil not find on a uk or us keyboard.

Kris
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Antwerpen, Belgium
Member Since: April 11, 2003
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Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 03:27 AM UTC
Hm, and I thought that kits were expensive in Belgium... turns out we are on cheap side of the scale. But... now that the $ is low, the US starts to become interesting even with shipping included.


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And for us continental Europeans who don´t have the GBP symbol on the keyboard, how do I create that???


Buy a Belgian keyboard... ok, it's azerty but it has $,£ and € symbols on it and lots more you wil not find on a uk or us keyboard.

Kris
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Wales, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 04:01 AM UTC

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Buy a Belgian keyboard... ok, it's azerty but it has $,£ and € symbols on it and lots more you wil not find on a uk or us keyboard.



Had hours of fun using one trying to write stuff while I was working in France. Qs everywhere.

Finding the @ symbol when do e-mail addresses was always a challenge.
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England - South West, United Kingdom
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Posted: Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 02:32 AM UTC

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A 1/35th scale Tamiya New Jersey sells for P1,800...a good price for a ship model at this scale. That is equal to around $ 31.58.


A 1:35 Battleship?? For $ 31?? I'll have one, but my garden is not big enough to display it... :-) :-)

Cheers
Henk
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Metro Manila, Philippines
Member Since: February 20, 2003
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Posted: Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 02:41 AM UTC

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Hmm...you should try to come here in the Philippines and buy a few kits here.

Presently, the rate is P57 pesos to $ 1 US dollar.

My Academy Panzer Kit costs P440, an average cost for a kit here. That is equal to $7.72 dollars.

A DML Nashorn Kit that I'm planning to buy costs P 890, considered to be quite expensive here. That is equal to $15.00.

A 1/35th scale Tamiya New Jersey sells for P1,800...a good price for a ship model at this scale. That is equal to around $ 31.58.

The 1/32 scale Tamiya F-15 is sold here for around P5,000. That is extremely expensive for us. But it would just be P87.72 for you.

The only downside is that model building is a relatively young hobby here in the Philippines. So you may find out that most of the kits here are also sold and available there in your countries.

Angela


I got to agree with her. I can buy any kit here almost half the price of online stores! :-)
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Kobenhavn, Denmark
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Posted: Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 06:23 PM UTC
An AMT or a Revell/Monogram 1/24-1/25 scale car kit cost about 10 $ in USA, when it hit's the stores in Denmark it will cost 40$. Another rip off.
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Visayas, Philippines
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Posted: Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 10:17 PM UTC

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A 1:35 Battleship?? For $ 31?? I'll have one, but my garden is not big enough to display it... :-) :-)

Cheers
Henk


Sorry for the typo. It's supposed to be 1/350.

Angela
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Wisconsin, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 17, 2004 - 06:50 AM UTC
I order from Rainbow Ten Hobbies in Japan, they've got real good prices on Tamiya, Hasegawa, Skywave/Pitroad, basically, all of the Japanese producers. Shipping is reasonable, and it takes about 5-7 days for it to arrive here in the states.

Gouging prices on Ebay for shipping is a pet peeve of mine...I recently won a Verlinden 120mm US GI weapons (which is out of production) for $6.50...the guy was in Texas, and wanted $12.00 for shipping standard ground rate!! Needless to say, I prepaid the shipping (via UPS) and sent him a MO in a box. He probably wasn't happy about it, but it cost me $6 to mail the empty box and have it mailed back. At that point, it's a matter of principle.

The best are some of the overseas sellers...they'll sell a kit for 50% of the retail, but charge you more for shipping, only to find it cost them a fraction of that to actually ship it. There's someone on Ebay right now selling 1/16 T-34s for $58US, but $45US shipping.

J



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