Importing a pedal

MattG

Hey

what in your collective experiences is the best way to bring a pedal over from the states?

buy directly from the dealer?

or pay the international handling charge through ebay?

Cheers

Matt

RaymondLin

Just buy it from Prymaxe, direct from a store.

Shipping is around £10, the exchange rate at the moment is really good and they always have 15% code knocking around. 

Heartfeltdawn

Buy direct. The international handling charge doesn't really work. 

capo4th

Dead easy buy from a store and buy 3 pedals

not_the_dj

I've bought from Pro Guitar Shop a couple of times (that bloody Andy and his fancy demos)

Lew

Prymaxe have 20% off over $99 until the 7th (I think its the 7th) and a few brands are 30% off.

The ebay duty thing makes pedals a bit of a pain to buy.

MattG

has anybody tried using the Prymaxe code? as i just tried and it wouldnt let me....

RaymondLin

It only works with certain products I believe for example there is no discount for Strymon stuff.

MattG

ah well ive messaged them to see if i can at least blag abit of a discount anyway, its worth a shot

would be useful if they had a list of exclusions though...

swlabr

PGS has 15% discount this weekend using JULY4 discount code
Never had to pay customs. Once sent pedal as repair

Lew

Use IND20 for 20%

However, If you use the chat box window you'll actually speak to someone live who will do a deal on anything new I think.

The code wasn't working for some BAT stuff I was looking at and the chap in the chat window was happy to take 20% off for me.

Ask nicely and I think they'd do it on Strymons too @RaymondLin

MattG

they don't seem to be doing that atm so i just left a message for them

RaymondLin

@Lew I did ask about Strymon stuff but they told me they don't ship them overseas.

Lew

Strange. Maybe it's a power issue with the Strymons, do they have their own adapter?

RaymondLin

They do come with an adaptor. I only found out because I am looking for a delay pedal and asked about the flint/timeline.

Lew

You don't want that nasty Strymon stuff anyway ;-)

Get this http://www.pigtronix.com/products/echolution/

RaymondLin

Too late...I got the Timeline on the way from Thomann, £310.

Lew

:-D