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By the time you add on the flight cost, time, effort and possible heartache when your new guitar gets chucked in the hold....
Have it couriered and pony up the VAT etc.
Very very rare for Customs to randomly ask questions about guitars. Chances are you will avoid the VAT and duty.
Sure it's 48 hours of your time but if someone on here can suggest a better and more exciting way of spending time than flying to get a dream guitar, I'd sure as hell like to hear it.
Go for it!
We live in the UK, not North Korea. If he wants to do this, that's his right.
It's a goddamn guitar forum - can't believe anyone is thinking this is anything but brilliant.
Went to Chicago for a guitar once. Absolutely brilliant trip. Apologies to anyone who thinks I 'wasted' those few days...
So all those people who drive for hours to meet up in service stations / train stations to buy / sell their guitars are wasting their life ?
Avoiding tax and duty is not right , but who here on the forum is whiter than white ?
We've travelled quite a bit round the USA and I would use any excuse to get back. But it's a exhausting trip even for a week never mind 48 hours.
Are you planning on meeting the seller at the airport because once you factor, getting to and from the airport, money on food and drink it all adds up. Surely that can't work out cheaper than having it shipped even with customs.
If you can make a trip of it, go for it. If not and you are just hanging round airports you're mad!
Being kept in a secure office for hours after a gruelling transatlantic flight while you try to prove that you took the guitar out with you would tarnish the whole jaunt and is not worth attempting in my opinion.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay