I’m thinking about treating myself to a gravity feed brush. I want a nice detail brush and plan to use my 155 Anthem as a brush for Future and the like. I’m looking at the Iwata (HP-C plus) but am considering the 100LG.
Dixie art has good prices but sometimes getting stuff shipped to Canada can end up costing the same (taxes/duty/stupid brokerage fee) Is it just UPS that nails you for a brokerage fee?
There’s an Ebay store that has the HP-C plus for $150 CAD that ships via Canada post from Ontario. A local store I checked out wanted $260!! The disadvantage here is that I can only get the brush and will have to find a hose or adapter.
Anybody first off have advice about which brush to get (looking at the revolution series as well) but also have any experience ordering from Dixie Art and getting it shipped to Canada? Or have a link that google failed to turn up for me?
Any of the couriers will charge brokerage. It’s a straight forward cost that they get billed, so we get billed. If you ship by mail it will take (almost) forever, but no brokerage, and you might even duck the duty. Worth a try. A Badger 150 retails for $150 in Kelowna, and Dixieart lists them for $65.
Sigh… there’s the rub. It’s half price but after currency exchange, duty, taxes, borkerage and the wait time it works out to be so close that you may as well have bought it localy. At the end of the day that $65 purchase will be $130. May as well spend the 20 bucks to have it that day, and be able to easily return it if theres a problem.
I think I’ll go with the Ebay store that is in Ontario and ships via Canada Post. Now to decide what brush to get but I think that gets it’s own thread.
Bgrigg go look at my F15 in the Aircraft fora. [:)]