Purchasing a firestore 100. Where?

lawriejaffa

lawriejaffa

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Hey guys!

Well i'm from the UK, and wow what a 'delight' it is trying to get a firestore 100 here for a decent price.

So far i've seen it for £1500 ($2800!!!) at videokit.co.uk

While at B&H (currently out of stock) their price is a mere, $1999 (including p&p to the UK) But does anyone have experience of what the cost of customs & duty might be like on an item of this price? Is it just straight VAT 17.5 % that would be added (if anyone knows) I imagine there is a further import duty of like um 5%?

So has ANYONE got suggestions for where to get a firestore for a fair price (lol) in the UK, or any US companies to suggest doing good deals on the firestore?
 
I thought firestore was just a hard drive (Well perhaps a bit more...) that just recorded what came out of the cam.
Am I wrong on this, seems like we get shafed again! Why am I not surprised.

Dave.
 
Oh my god! You mean there is a NTSC and PAL version *falls on knees* Nooooo, your right dave, looks like us brits get fekin shafted again!
 
i got stuff from b&h & their 'global express mail' delivery service & didn't get charged any duty - it surprised me cause every other time i'd bought stuff from the u.s. i was charged the 17.5%. perhaps it was the 'global express mail delivery' service bit that got it through for free or maybe i was just lucky. the order was for about $500
 
I've ordered stuff from the US and had it on Global Express. Normaly the duty and vat fees come in after you have recieved the goods, sometime up to 6 months.

Check out
http://www.expandore.biz/product_de...codeid=&catid=2&brandid=6&formatid=89&start=1

They have the PAL version.

Yeah its a shame FE have made 2 versions to fleece the end users, it is after all a freaking hard drive. Well I guess they have to make as much money as they can.

I'm sure someone will hack it someday, it can't be that hard :-)
 
nycfilmmaker said:
if you have an hvx i don't se why you can't use it. HD is HD...there's no pal or ntsc
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Wrong, there is NTSC and PAL format differences in the camera hardware itself. And there are differences between NTSC DVCPRO-HD and PAL DVCPRO-HD, such as the difference between 24fps (NTSC) and 25fps (PAL).
 
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